11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Best Children’s Books of 2022
Here are the most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.
2022 Reading Picks From Times Staff Critics
The books they read this year that have stayed with them.
When It Comes to Picture Books, Santa Sells
At this time of year, the best-selling books for children are all Christmas, all the time. And they’re not even new!
'A Dangerous Business' is an entertaining, Poe-inspired murder mystery
In Jane Smiley's latest novel, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," characters Eliza and Jean are determined to figure out who killed their missing colleagues.
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The Best True Crime Books of 2022
From the Jazz Age to the Jim Crow South to late-1960s Southern California, from serial robberies to kidnappings to double homicides: narratives all the more chilling because they happened.
The Best True Crime of 2022
From the Jazz Age to the Jim Crow South to late-1960s Southern California, from serial robberies to kidnappings to double homicides: narratives all the more chilling because they happened.
Book Review: ‘Butts,’ by Heather Radke
In her new cultural history, Heather Radke considers how women’s backsides have been described, displayed and fetishized — and what that says about gender, race and more.
Review: ‘The Lion and the Fox,’ by Alexander Rose
In “The Lion and the Fox,” Alexander Rose tells the story of a pivotal naval conflict.
The Best Poetry of 2022
Our columnist selects the books that have stuck with her this year.
The Best Mystery Novels of 2022
Our columnist, who’s read dozens of books this year, selects her favorites.
The Best Poetry of 2022
Our columnist selects the books that have stuck with her this year.
Review: ‘A Left-Handed Woman: Essays’
In Judith Thurman’s essays, the aesthetic frequently does battle with the substantive.
Review: ‘Of Ice and Men,’ by Fred Hogge
Fred Hogge’s “Of Ice and Men” is a surprisingly loose history of frozen water.
Book Review: ‘Screaming on the Inside,’ by Jessica Grose
In her new book, “Screaming on the Inside,” Jessica Grose unpacks the heavy burdens that arrive with the birth of a child.
What's the secret sauce that lets some poor countries prosper?
In his new book, Gambling on Development, economist Stefan Dercon argues that the key to a low-resource country's success is not what you might think.
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If We Were Villains
unCovered review by Marina Smolens, ACLS
Brigantine Branch
IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio brings you into the world of seven thespians in their senior year at the Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory – and where there’s Shakespeare, you can be sure there is obsession, violence, romance, and death to follow. The conservatory is no exception. The story starts with Oliver Marks, one of the seven thespian students, as he is being released from prison after serving ten years for a crime he may or may not have committed. Joseph Colborne, the former lead detective on the case, has a feeling he didn’t get the full story. Oliver agrees to tell him everything now so long as no one can get in any more trouble for it. And so, with this agreement in place, we are transported back in time, ten years earlier, to the fall semester of 1997. From there, we meet the rest of the cast, and watch as their passions, furies, and secrets lead to their unraveling. Even if you think you know how it’s going to end, it sucker-punches you and leaves you breathless. An absolute win for dark academia.
Book Review: ‘American Caliph,’ by Shahan Mufti
“American Caliph,” by Shahan Mufti, recounts the complex story of a largely forgotten episode from 1977, when an armed Muslim group held dozens of people hostage.
Book Review: ‘A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré’
“A Private Spy,” a collection of the British writer’s letters, offers glimpses of unguarded moments and ruffled feathers.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022
Pandemics, witchcraft, terrifying A.I.: speculative fiction that stood out in 2022.
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