Hanif Abdurraqib Celebrates Black Performance
In “A Little Devil in America,” Abdurraqib moves from Master Juba to Josephine Baker to Sun Ra to Patti LaBelle to “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Are Horses More Useful to Humans Than Pigeons? And Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ and ‘Coffeeland’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’
Blake Bailey’s comprehensive life of Roth features a parade of book after book, award after award, and lover after lover.
Elizabeth Acevedo Understands That ‘People Read Like They Eat’
“Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to work to crack something open.”
It Takes Gumption to Work on a Novel For 10 Years. Ask Angeline Boulley.
“Firekeeper’s Daughter” is a runaway success, but the years leading to its publication consisted of a long series of quiet mornings.
A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections
In “Ghosts of New York,” Jim Lewis introduces four characters and follows their intersecting paths.
Hunter Biden's Memoir 'Beautiful Things' Seeks To Tell Just Where He's Been
The account by the president's younger son is at times a harrowing journey; in the end, if not for forgiveness or sympathy, it may be about making a stand and taking whatever place he can occupy.
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'A Most Remarkable Creature' Introduces The Little-Known, Charismatic Caracara
Through Jonathan Meiburg's inquiring lens, readers will find themselves with a new favorite animal — a bird of prey aptly described as "one of the strangest and most wonderful animals on Earth."
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3 Picture Books Get the Royal Treatment
Leo Timmers, Mylo Freeman and Klaas Verplancke take us inside the minds of two loony kings and a once blue princess.
Book Review: ‘Libertie,’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge
In her second novel, “Libertie,” the dark-skinned daughter of a light-skinned doctor finds freedom in art.
‘Girlhood,’ by Melissa Febos: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Girlhood,” by Melissa Febos
New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
‘Of Women and Salt,’ by Gabriela Garcia: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Of Women and Salt,” by Gabriela Garcia
In 'Girlhood,' A Writer Examines Her Youth For Signs Of The Woman She Would Become
Though author Melissa Febos' essays dip into her adult life, they keep trying to find the child and teenager that she was — how she learned to be, feel, believe, and react.
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A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices
In Dawnie Walton’s debut novel, “The Final Revival of Opal & Nev,” readers will hear an oral history that harks back to a simpler time.
From Cuba to Miami, These Women Contend With Abusive Men and Countries
“Of Women and Salt,” Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, evokes the history of a Cuban family rived by brutal events.
Why Are Migratory Birds Vanishing Out of the Sky?
In “A World on the Wing,” Scott Weidensaul describes the splendor of birds that can span continents in their flight, and also all the ways they are threatened.
Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down
The senator from Illinois shares the occasionally harrowing, never boring story of her barrier-breaking life in a new memoir, “Every Day Is a Gift.”
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