Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’
Eight essays tell a collective story of female adolescence and womanhood, fraught with unwanted attention and abuse.
The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image
“Do Not Disturb,” by Michela Wrong, paints a picture of a country, and a region, long vexed by ethnic conflict, corrupt leadership and human rights abuses.
Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom
Linda Colley’s “The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen” examines how constitutions came to be written — and why they sometimes fail.
An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights
Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Wright shared a political cause and residency in Auburn, N.Y. “The Agitators,” by Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of their joint crusade.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and America’s Most Liberal Generation
David Freedlander’s “The AOC Generation” offers a picture of a growing electorate that may be changing American politics forever.
'The Tree In Me' Is A Blooming Good Spring Read
As spring finally gets springing, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles recommends The Tree in Me, a pink-splashed, exuberant celebration of kids enjoying nature.
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Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It
The creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins constructed a world that children recognized — one that changed with the times.
Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity
A. O. Scott discusses Olsen’s work, and Wendy Lower talks about “The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed.”
New in Paperback: ‘Deacon King Kong’ and ‘The Undocumented Americans’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance
Jesse McCarthy’s debut collection, “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?,” sees art as not a tool of political power, but a power itself.
Heroines, Witnessing Executions and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The (Way Too Many) Kids Whose Lives Have Been Upended by Gun Violence
“Children Under Fire,” by the Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, homes in on the often overlooked suffering of children who have witnessed a shooting or lost a loved one to it.
Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art
Through her rigorous depictions of working-class families, this mid-20th-century writer of fiction conveyed the costs of living for burdened mothers, wives and daughters.
'There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job' Takes Gentle Aim At Japan's Work Culture
Kikuko Tsumura's new novel follows an unnamed protagonist who embarks on a series of odd temp jobs — and discovers that as the jobs get duller, the demands of her male supervisors get more intense.
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The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said
“Places of Mind,” a new biography by Timothy Brennan, a former student, shows one of America’s most distinguished postwar intellectuals to have been a man of deep complexity.
The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains
“I haven’t found a use for that yet, but you never know.”
Walter Isaacson’s New Book Celebrates Three Notable Women
“The Code Breaker” is about a world-changing scientist and dedicated to two legends of the publishing industry.
In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort
Our poetry columnist writes about Valerie Mejer Caso’s “Edinburgh Notebook” and other works of vicarious grief.
New & Noteworthy, From Obamacare to Women in Television
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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