New in Paperback: ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ and ‘Billion Dollar Loser’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung
These collections include forays into a Dominican dictatorship, a tragic ferry accident in South Korea and polyamory.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship
“That’s a neglected, important part of life.”
Need a Modern Update on American History? Meet Clint Smith.
“How the Word is Passed” is equal parts crash course, prose poem, travelogue and reckoning.
11 Summer Graphic Novels for Early and Middle-Grade Readers
From flashlight-under-the-blanket page-turners and music-infused time travel to a campy book about camp, here are 11 summer novels for comics-hungry kids.
You Don't Have To Be A Complete Nerd To Love This Novel ... But It Helps
Carrie Vaughn is a veteran science fiction and fantasy author who puts her years in the scene to good use in this rollicking tale about a high-tech fantasy theme park (think Westworld) gone wrong.
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A Woman Is Committed To An Asylum For Thinking In 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'
In a new book, The Radium Girls author Kate Moore follows the struggles of Elizabeth Packard who, locked up by her husband in 1860 for having opinions and voicing them, finds she's not the only one.
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Life Gets Hectic Fast for a Heroine and Her Newfound 12-Year-Old
The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.
Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It
In “Songbooks,” the scholar and critic Eric Weisbard surveys music writing from the 1700s to today, with special attention to voices on the margins.
'Light Perpetual' Imagines Adulthood For 5 Fictional Kids Killed In WWII Attack
In 1944 an attack on a London Woolworths killed 168 people. In his new novel, Francis Spufford explores what "might have been" for five young casualties of war.
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‘Filthy Animals: Stories,’ by Brandon Taylor: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Filthy Animals: Stories,” by Brandon Taylor
Meet Sydney Taylor, Unsung Creator of the All-of-a-Kind Family
Her books depicted a cozy Jewish family on the Lower East Side. In real life, her back story was more complicated.
How to Destroy a Village
Liang Hong’s “China in One Village” recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.
Coming Home Is Anything but Easy in This ‘Millennial Noir’
Elias Rodriques’s debut novel, “All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running,” follows a young man searching for answers after the death of his high school flame.
From Poverty To Stanford, Memoir Tells A Physicist's Remarkable Tale
A Quantum Life is an important book to help understand the institutional hurdles that have kept science mostly white and male — and how the fire of inquiry can take root in a heart and lift it up.
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New & Noteworthy Poetry, From First Peoples to Posthumous Ashbery
A selection of recent poetry titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Whenever She Has This Dream, Someone in Her Village Dies
Folklore informs Mariana Leky’s novel “What You Can See From Here,” which follows a motley cast of townspeople faced with a crisis.
The House That Mouse Built
This young adult version of a Spanish folk tale redefines what picture books can be. Reader discretion is advised.
Can Geometry Be as Soul-Stirring as Poetry?
In “Shape,” Jordan Ellenberg argues for the importance of geometry as the underlying structure of reality.
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