Well Educated, Well Employed, and a Paycheck Away From Disaster
Jo Hamya’s debut novel, “Three Rooms,” exposes the precarious state of life for a woman of color in publishing.
David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss
At the center of the celebrated Israeli novelist’s new book, “More Than I Love My Life,” is the story of a woman imprisoned on a Yugoslavian island for almost three years.
New in Paperback: ‘A Knock at Midnight,’ ‘The Vapors’ and More
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
William Maxwell Found the Depth in Modest Places
A.O. Scott talks about the novelist and story writer, and Eyal Press discusses “Dirty Work.”
Finding Your Own Way With Words, and Images
8 new picture books explore the many different paths to fall learning.
For These Comic Artists, Heritage And Folklore Are Superpowers
A wave of new comics creators are drawing on their heritage, culture and folklore to create fantastical worlds and superpowered characters — something that wasn't possible until very recently.
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Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer
New fiction about Korean immigrants in America, 1960s New York housewives and aging butterfly collectors exploring the world one last time.
Before She Loved Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir Loved Zaza
With “Inseparable,” a novel she wrote in 1954 and which is now being published for the first time, the celebrated French philosopher recounts, in fictional guise, her relationship with Élisabeth Lacoin (“Zaza”), a beloved schoolmate who died tragically young.
Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Take A Magical Mystery Tour With This Chinese Comic Artist
"If I could put it into words, I wouldn't be drawing it," says one of the characters in Zuo Ma's surreal graphic novel Night Bus, a collection of stories that drives through every literary boundary.
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An Afghan Author On Losing Her Homeland — For The Second Time
"It is too cruel to ask if it hurts more the first or second time a homeland is lost," says Afghan American author Nadia Hashimi, whose parents are from Kabul. "I know one never becomes numb to it."
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What Was on the Best-Seller List 20 Years Ago?
A peek into the archives reveals that popular books from early September 2001 were both prescient and timeless.
Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies
“I have a soft spot for books by tough, radically honest women with an uncommon antenna for magic, language and landscape.”
Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Think You Know Where The Stories In 'Skinship' Are Going? Think Again
The eight short stories in Yoon Chi's extraordinary collection splinter out in unexpected ways, shifting focus from a single life to decades of complex family history.
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'Seeing Ghosts' Navigates The Melancholia Of Loss — Of People, Places And Identities
While this book would not exist without Kat Chow's grief — while Chow would not be the person she is now without that grief — her project here aims for more than just mapping her primal anguish.
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These Books Remind Us Why Parenting Is a Verb
Raising a human being requires work, energy, love — and, occasionally, advice. You’ll find sensible guidance in these books.
Book Review: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,’ by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
In “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, history is everything — an inheritance of secrets, lies, talents, betrayals, ambition, accomplishment and possibility.
'Real Estate' ls An Elegant Exploration Of The Concept Of — And Desire For — Home
The third installment of British writer Deborah Levy's excellent Living Autobiography is largely a book about the collisions of fantasies and real life — or perhaps a synthesis of the two.
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