Hilary Mantel Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
Hilary Mantel brought great precision to her writing, and asked the same of us in our reading.
The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
Joe Hagan discusses “Sticky Fingers,” his 2017 biography of Wenner, and a panel of Times critics talks about their 2019 list of outstanding memoirs.
New Crime Fiction
In Alaina Urquhart’s serial-killer thriller “The Butcher and the Wren,” a Louisiana forensic pathologist matches wits with a murderer.
7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
Nick Cave, religious cults and a dead mother-in-law who may or may not have come back to life: immersive narratives to download this month.
7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
Nick Cave, religious cults and a dead mother-in-law who may or may not have come back to life: immersive narratives to download this month.
Review: “The Wind Rises” (Alma, Book 1) by Timothée de Fombelle
A West African girl thrust from her family’s private Eden confronts awful truths on the high seas in Timothée de Fombelle’s “The Wind Rises.”
Review: “The Door of No Return” by Kwame Alexander
In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
With 'Ducks,' the creator of Hark! A Vagrant reveals her shadow side
Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: how she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil field.
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Deanna Raybourn Puts Power in the Hands of Older Women
In “Killers of a Certain Age,” the longtime historical novelist dips a toe in contemporary waters — and celebrates an oft-ignored age group.
Andrew Sean Greer By the Book Interview
“I couldn’t read more than a page of ‘Last of the Mohicans,’” says the novelist, whose new book is “Less Is Lost.” “Not only is it wildly offensive, it’s unintelligible gibberish. There. I said it. Come after me.”
Book Review: ‘Our Missing Hearts,’ by Celeste Ng
“Our Missing Hearts” explores a fictional world where Chinese Americans are spurned and books are recycled into toilet paper.
Book Review: ‘The Story of Russia’ by Orlando Figes
In a new book, the historian Orlando Figes argues that the war on Ukraine is only the latest instance of a nation twisting the past to justify its future.
Book Review: ‘Self-Portrait With Ghost,’ by Meng Jin; ‘Tomorrow in Shanghai,’ by May-lee Chai; ‘A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,’ by Dung Kai-cheung
Stories set in China, the U.S. and Hong Kong are deadpan, dysfunctional, sentimental — and weird.
'Lucy By The Sea' succeeds at capturing disruptions, anxieties of pandemic
Elizabeth Stroud's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and their changing relationships during this period.
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'Lucy By The Sea' succeeds at capturing disruptions, anxieties of pandemic
Elizabeth Strout's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and their changing relationships during this period.
(Image credit: Random House)
Book Review: ‘By Hands Now Known,” by Margaret A. Burnham
“By Hands Now Known,” by Margaret A. Burnham, examines the chronic, quotidian violence faced by Black citizens in the American South — and the law’s failure to address it.
Newly Published, From Neuron Forests to Cryptocurrency
A selection of recently published books.
Book Review: ‘Lady Justice,’ by Dahlia Lithwick
In “Lady Justice,” Dahlia Lithwick celebrates the female lawyers, judges and others who stood up to the administration.
New Trump tome 'The Divider' offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date
The book by veteran journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is a rushing torrent of anecdotes and recollections. A reader may plunge in at any point and pull up a pail of Trump at full tilt.
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