Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel
Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.”
New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Poetry and Politics, HIPAA and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Pleasure of Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Face
Maybe you should just surrender to the sweet slumber.
1963 Novel 'The Stone Face' Has New Edition — And It Couldn't Be More Timely
William Gardner Smith wrote the story of a Black writer who, like Smith himself, moved to Paris to pursue a freedom he couldn't find in America. New York Review Books is releasing a new edition.
Legends Remade: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The World Gives Way,” “The Chosen and the Beautiful” and “Sword Stone Table” borrow from familiar stories but offer surprising readings.
Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning
In “Maya and the Robot,” a shy brainiac finds, fixes and brings to life an artificially intelligent robot named Ralph.
An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
Kwame Mbalia and 16 author friends, including Jason Reynolds, Varian Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Dean Atta and Jerry Craft, make an anthology.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new books from Kristen Radtke and Lizzy Stewart, as well as a first graphic novel from Anne Carson.
Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best-Selling Wisdom
A look at this week’s popular novels reminds us that good writing runs in families, wet T-shirts attract attention and you can’t hide from your past.
Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
“Holden Caulfield irritated me massively.”
Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’
In “Putting It Together,” James Lapine recounts how he and Stephen Sondheim created the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
New & Noteworthy, From Horse Girls to an E.R. Doctor’s View of Covid
A selection of recent titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel
Messy and floundering in late midlife, Dana Spiotta's heroine is roiling — along with the rest of the country — amid the 2016 election and the rise of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.
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Finding the ‘Believers’ Who Will Remake a Damaged Earth
In a travelogue, Lisa Wells searches for communities and individuals committed to healing the damage of climate change.
A New John Oliver Killens Novel Arrives, Three Decades After His Death
Killens’s posthumously released novel, “The Minister Primarily,” is a searing and satirical look at race in America.
Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’
Jin’s new novel follows a Beijing opera singer who flees to the United States after he gets in trouble with the Chinese state.
The Humans
UnCovered
review by Debbie Brahmi, ACLS Pleasantville Branch
The Humans is a science fiction book for people (like me) who HATE science fiction!
I picked it up because I thoroughly enjoyed The Midnight Library, also written by Matt Haig, and I was intrigued by the fact that The Humans was described as a “funny, compulsively readable novel” about an alien who is sent to Earth to inhabit the body of the deceased Professor Andrew Martin and destroy all evidence that Martin had solved a major mathematical problem that would advance human civilization. The aliens are superior lifeforms, and they want to preserve their dominance in the universe.
The “funny” begins when the alien sent to Earth starts to enjoy his new life as a human (he even falls in love with Martin’s wife, who has NO idea he is not her husband!), and he must then decide to either complete his mission and return to his home planet or remain on Earth and live the remainder of his life as a less than superior human. What would you do??
For July, 3 Romances Packed With Pulse-Pounding Peril
This month, romance columnist Maya Rodale brings us three tales of danger and mystery, political intrigues, airship pirates, angry Scotsmen, and of course, the essential ingredient: passion.
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