Book Review: ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart,’ by Beth Nguyen
Beth Nguyen left Vietnam and her biological mother when she was a baby. Her memoir “Owner of a Lonely Heart” examines the ripple effect of those departures.
TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
Book Review: ‘Pete and Alice in Maine,’ by Caitlin Shetterly
Remember the people who fled to second homes during the pandemic? Caitlin Shetterly wrote a novel about them.
Book Review: ‘New International Fiction’
Novels and stories by Itamar Vieira Junior, Carlos Fonseca, Guadalupe Nettel and Norman Erikson Pasaribu.
Looking Back at ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’
Helen Fielding’s ditzy heroine was all the rage when she was introduced to American audiences in 1998. Today, her nuttiness and self-loathing read like a relic from another time.
Newly Published, from Young Adult Novels to Political Tumult in Translation
A selection of recently published books.
Marvin Kitman, Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV, Dies at 93
He twitted the networks for 35 years as a critic at Newsday. He also audited George Washington’s wartime expense account and wrote a biography of Bill O’Reilly.
‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”
‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy
This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin.
Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?
A wave of recent and forthcoming TV series, books and movies meditate on how young people might fare during an apocalyptic event — with varying degrees of optimism.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: ‘The Heat Will Kill You First,’ by Jeff Goodell
In “The Heat Will Kill You First,” Jeff Goodell documents the lethal effects of rising temperatures and argues that we need to take hot weather a lot more seriously.
12 New Books Coming in July
Watch for new novels by Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Richard Russo, a climate journalist’s damning study of rising temperatures — and plenty more.
Poem: from ‘Inventory III’
Dionne Brand’s poem is a testament to live lived in the flickering light of spectacle and the grim shadow of war.
She Played Hopscotch With Anne Frank. Her Story Will Live On Too.
When Hannah Pick-Goslar died last year, Dina Kraft completed the book they’d started together. Now it’s a best seller.
Interview: Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One
“There has to be chemistry,” says the writer and prolific translator, whose second book will come out next year. “You don’t need prior knowledge of, say, Iceland or Icelandic in order to appreciate Victoria Cribb’s translation of Sjón.”
‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art
The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job.
Essay: How Different Translators Bring New Life to the ‘Iliad’
Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators.
3 YA fantasy novels for summer that bring out the monsters within
As we roll into the dog days of summer, these three YA novels move beyond being beastly — as their protagonists transform into the creatures that lie within.
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Book Review: ‘The 272,’ by Rachel L. Swarns
“The 272,” by Rachel L. Swarns, recounts the decision by the university’s early leaders to sell nearly 300 people enslaved on Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland in 1838.
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