Newly Published, From Afro-Atlantic Histories to GameStop
A selection of books published this week.
Strap in for highs and lows with the pandemic novel 'How High We Go in the Dark'
One character is an aimless young man works at a euthanasia theme park for terminally ill kids, placing them on the roller coaster that will kill them before the plague does. It is a book about death.
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New Horror Fiction
In Sara Gran’s occult thriller, “The Book of the Most Precious Substance,” a rare-book dealer falls under the spell of a powerful 17th-century manuscript.
The Lives of Black Women, at Home and Abroad
Three debut novels — by Kai Harris, Nikki May and Destiny O. Birdsong — follow female protagonists struggling to find their place.
New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A Cooks Tour: 3 Picture Books About Famous Foodies
Georgia Gilmore, Alice Waters and Julia Child show kids that food has the power to make our worlds bigger, better and more connected.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A young nurse investigates murders in 18th century China in 'The Red Palace'
June Hur's history-based novel binds fiction to fact in a gripping young adult mystery. A nurse in 18th century Korea's royal court tries to track down the killer of four women.
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Want to Be a Writer? Get Your Training as a Wedding Planner.
Before Xochitl Gonzalez wrote her best-selling debut novel, “Olga Dies Dreaming,” she produced elaborate events. The experience was invaluable.
'Anatomy' is a gothic love story stirring up mystery and medicine
In Dana Schwartz's novel, it's 1817 and Lady Hazel, set to marry a cousin, just wants to study medicine. She meets a boy who helps her — and the journey is an adventure from there.
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A Deer in the Headlights: ‘Bambi’ Reconsidered
As a new translation makes clear, this tale of survival, written between the wars by an Austro-Hungarian Jew, wasn’t intended for young children.
'Honor' is a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world
Thrity Umrigar's novel is about India's humanitarian crisis — with its depictions of misogyny and scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture — but it's also about a transformative journey.
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It Started as a Romantic Idyll. It Ended With a Stack of Corpses.
In “Reckless Girls,” by Rachel Hawkins, a vacation on a remote atoll in the South Pacific goes very, very wrong.
A true crime writer struggles with his responsibility to the victims in 'Devil House'
Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.
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The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next
There are endless ways to write a poem, but Rilke offered one foolproof formula that echoes throughout several recent collections.
Piecing Together God’s Body, From Head to Toe
In “God: An Anatomy,” Francesca Stavrakopoulou attempts to understand divinity as our ancestors did, as having a corporeal presence.
Book Review: ‘South to America,’ by Imani Perry
In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry straddles genres to find her own — and our — South.
It’s Just a Game. Or Is It?
In “Seven Games: A Human History,” Oliver Roeder presents a study of checkers, backgammon, chess, Go, poker, Scrabble and bridge — and asks why we play.
A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning
In “The Last Slave Ship,” Ben Raines tells the story of the Clotilda, the founding of Africatown, Ala., and a history that wouldn’t stay buried.
These Stories Will Defy All Your Expectations
New collections by Bernard MacLaverty, Gwen E. Kirby, Gish Jen and Morgan Thomas.
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