Trail Blazer
In Jewell Parker Rhodes’s “Paradise on Fire,” a young mapmaker in a wilderness program for Black city kids fights fire with fire.
Joshua Ferris’s Ode to the Hapless American Everyman
“A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” Ferris’s new novel, is a vivid portrait of a man’s dreams and failures.
New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist
Two mysteries and a story collection span the American South, from 1980s North Carolina to small-town Mississippi to Tennessee.
New in Paperback: ‘Conditional Citizens’ and ‘The Silence’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Two Authors View America From Above and Below, and Are Not Happy With What They See
Evan Osnos’s “Wildland” and Alec Ross’s “The Raging 2020s” take different paths to arrive at the same worrisome conclusion about the country’s future.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The Times.
These Poems' Sensual Details Explore The Friction Between Integrity And Desire
Natasha Rao gets to know herself by examining how she clings to her past in her debut poetry collection Latitude.
(Image credit: The American Poetry Review)
Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics
“I literally start to sweat. I’ll rush home to have another go at ‘The Golden Bowl,’ or whatever.”
She Face-Planted Into Her Salad at the Country Club. Who Killed Her?
In “Mango, Mambo, and Murder,” a series debut from Raquel V. Reyes, a food anthropologist in Miami begins to investigate crimes.
The I Survived Series is a Survivor on the Best-Seller List
In Lauren Tarshis’ books, the struggle is real — and young readers can’t get enough of these stories of war, wildfire, tornadoes and volcanoes.
Dasani Showed Us What It’s Like to Grow Up Homeless. She’s Still Struggling.
“Invisible Child,” by the New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott, expands on her much-admired 2013 series, following the lives of a New York City child and her family, as they strive to stay together and make ends meet.
Newly Published, From the AIDS Crisis to Anthony Bourdain
A selection of books published this week.
Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead
In “The Heroine With 1001 Faces,” the folklore scholar Maria Tatar explores woman-centered alternatives to Joseph Campbell’s famous template for myths and legends starring male protagonists.
How the Animal World Is Adapting to Climate Change
In “Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid,” Thor Hanson looks at the evolutionary shifts already taking place as ecosystems and weather patterns change.
No One's Telling The Truth In Joshua Ferris's New Novel — Or Are They?
Charlie Barnes, the figure at the center of Ferris's A Calling for Charlie Barnes, is 68 and on his fifth marriage, and after a self-diagnised cancer scare, he wants his son to write his life story.
(Image credit: NPR)
When the Times Book Review Panned the Classics
Some of today’s best-loved books — think “Catch-22,” “Tender Is the Night” and even “Anne of Green Gables” — had a rocky reception in our pages.
For Fall, 3 Novels Where Great Translations Make All The Difference
Sometimes, it's not the author you choose, it's the translator. So we've picked three novels where the translation will help you discover new things about the text, even if you can read the original.
(Image credit: NPR)
With 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' Anthony Doerr Dazzles And Disturbs
Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The Light We Cannot See follows five young people, each living in dangerous times across the span of eight centuries.
‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ by Anthony Doerr: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr's New Novel Spans Centuries, Yet Fits Together Like Clockwork
Cloud Cuckoo Land follows four people in very different times and places, all connected by an imaginary manuscript — also called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" — by a real author, the philosopher Diogenes.
(Image credit: Scribner)
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