14 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer
Biographies of Anna May Wong and Alice Marble, a deep-sea exploration, the race to the North Pole: Here’s what to watch for this season.
Counting Books for Children
Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jamaica’s Calabash Festival is a Literary Party
Among the host of literary gatherings that have sprung up in the last 20 years, Calabash in Jamaica brings the party off the page.
Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights
In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.
'The Talk' is an epic portrait of an artist making his way through hardships
Despite its weighty, multi-tiered approach — this is not, on multiple levels, an easy read — Darrin Bell's debut graphic memoir is difficult to put down.
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The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi
A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.
Book Review: ‘You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live,’ by Paul Kix
In “You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live,” Paul Kix brings cinematic flair to the story of the civil rights leader’s risky 1963 campaign to integrate the city.
Poem: Preparedness
Rae Armantrout’s poem appears, at first, to be a matter-of-fact proposition about human beings. Then it gets slippery.
David Von Drehle Looked Both Ways, Then Met His Latest Subject
After decades of covering well-known people, the Washington Post columnist was inspired by a man who lived on his block.
Book Review: ‘The Mythmakers,’ by Keziah Weir
Keziah Weir’s debut novel, “The Mythmakers,” is a fresh addition to the library of fiction about tortured literati.
Interview: Three Books That Make Tess Gunty Angry
“So many come to mind,” says the author, whose novel “The Rabbit Hutch” won a National Book Award last year and will be out in paperback this month. “I guess I’m often furious?”
Book Review: ‘Lament for Julia,’ by Susan Taubes
The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine.
Two summer suspense novels delight in overturning the 'woman-in-trouble' plot
Megan Abbott's Beware the Woman centers on a pregnant newlywed who finds herself isolated in her husband's family cottage. Katie Williams' My Murder is told from the perspective of a murdered woman.
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Book Review: ‘Regime Change,’ by Patrick J. Deneen
The new book by the political scientist Patrick J. Deneen proposes to replace the country’s “invasive progressive tyranny” with conservative rule in the name of the “common good.”
The Home Cook Who Wants to ‘Blow Up the Kitchen’
A new book by the British academic Rebecca May Johnson urges a radical rethinking of just what goes on in the kitchen. For starters, don’t call cooking a labor of love.
Book Review: ‘The Dress Diary,’ by Kate Strasdin
“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era.
Book Review: ‘Everything’s Fine,’ by Cecilia Rabess
In Cecilia Rabess’s novel, “Everything’s Fine,” a woman considers how to stay true to herself after she falls in love with her ideological antithesis and begins working in an industry she doubts.
Book Review: ‘The Dissident,’ by Paul Goldberg
Refuseniks in 1970s Moscow try to untangle an ax murder in Paul Goldberg’s new novel, “The Dissident.”
Book Review: ‘Fire Weather,’ by John Vaillant
In “Fire Weather,” the journalist John Vaillant makes the case that the catastrophic — and inevitable — 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire was a sign of things to come.
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