Jennifer Haigh on ‘Mercy Street’
Haigh talks about her new novel, and Megan Walsh discusses “The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters.”
Literary LPs
Classic albums reimagined as classic books.
Newly Published, From Cryptocurrency to the Kennedys
A selection of books published this week.
‘Animal Farm,’ Bambi and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
How Marlon James, Novelist, Spends His Sundays
The Jamaican-born writer likes to read in bed, watch ‘tear-jerky’ YouTube videos and cook for friends.
New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe
Recent novels from around the world include “Jawbone,” “Woman Running in the Mountains,” “The History of Man” and “The Wind Whistling in the Cranes.”
New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Winged Victories: 2 Picture Books Take Flight
Jacqueline Woodson’s “The Year We Learned to Fly” and Lina al-Hathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery’s “Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers” offer stories that soar.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A creation myth in Sheila Heti's 'Pure Colour' has art critics as evolutionary stars
The novel is simultaneously wise and silly, moving and inscrutable. It is also indisputably working hard to be new.
(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord
This week’s latest top sellers include unexpected treats and old favorites.
A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years.
“An everyday pickup line, but it worked,” says the novelist, whose new book is “The Swimmers.” “I haven’t been in touch with him since, but I return to ‘The Lover’ every now and again, and never fail to fall under its spell.”
A Journalist Went Undercover as a Refugee. It Became an Act of Love.
To better understand the plight of Afghan refugees, the reporter Matthieu Aikins undertook a journey with one. “The Naked Don’t Fear the Water” tells the story.
A damaging love affair with the U.S. ends in heartbreak in 'Black American Refugee'
Tiffanie Drayton tells the story of coming to the U.S. as an immigrant child and discovering that no level of accomplishment would enable her to shake the burden of Blackness in this nation.
(Image credit: Viking)
'Moon Witch, Spider King' is a rare sequel that is better than its predecessor
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy, systematically dismantled the known foundations of epic fantasy. This sequel once again shattered expectations.
(Image credit: Riverhead)
Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant.
In “Index, A History of the,” Dennis Duncan explores the life and times of a practice that’s been dividing readers since Gutenberg.
The First Lady Asks an Unknown Reporter to Write Her Biography. Why?
In “Our American Friend,” Anna Pitoniak imagines an unlikely collaboration in a political climate that feels strangely familiar.
Book Review: ‘Watergate,’ by Garrett M. Graff
Garrett M. Graff’s “Watergate: A New History” is a thorough account of everything that is known about the epic events of Richard Nixon’s last year in office.
‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry
Alejandro Zambra’s latest book is a lighthearted study of artistic birthright, national identity and Chile’s contemporary literary scene.
A Lincoln for Our Polarized Times
John Avlon’s “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace” depicts a reconciler in chief who promised mercy with justice at the end of the Civil War.
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