‘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.
Brandon Taylor’s ‘Filthy Animals’ Is a Study in Rogue Appetites
The first story collection from the author of “Real Life” features unspoken desires bubbling up when least appropriate.
'Widespread Panic' Might Be The Most Ellroy Book James Ellroy Has Ever Written
The Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is back, with more boocoo bad business, pervs, prowlers, and putzo politicians than ever in this story of a real-life cop who knew it all (and had the pictures, too).
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For June, 3 Romances That Prove Love Is Love Is Love
For Pride Month, we're bringing you some of the best queer romances around, starring daring English highwaymen, mysterious secret operatives and a long-lost (and extremely reluctant) princess.
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A History of Getting Hammered, and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It
In “Drunk,” Edward Slingerland plays devil’s advocate for the pleasure and utility of Dionysian abandon.
George Packer on Our Divided America
Packer talks about “Last Best Hope,” and Suzanne Simard discusses “Finding the Mother Tree.”
The One About Bibi Netanyahu’s Father and the Perils of Diaspora
In his new novel, “The Netanyahus,” Joshua Cohen imagines a visit by the scholar Benzion Netanyahu to an Ivy League school in the late 1950s.
5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive
Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long Division, recommends five "incisive and innovative" books on social justice for Juneteenth.
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New in Paperback: ‘The World’s Fastest Man’ and ‘Our Time Is Now’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Summer Reading, the I.R.S. and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Jordan Ellenberg Wouldn’t Have Given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan
“I strongly endorse the idea of going beyond the verbal art forms traditionally marked as ‘literature,’ but everybody already knows about Bob Dylan. They should have given it to Lynda Barry.”
Black Lives Drawn and Stories of Struggle Told Through Comics
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at a compilation of Black cartoonists and a history of female slave rebellions.
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