New in Paperback: ‘Blowout’ and ‘The Last Trial’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel
“My Year Abroad” follows a young man from a transformative stint in Asia to his pursuit of happiness in a quiet American town.
Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex
The father of evolutionary theory held women to be intellectually inferior to men, with one notable exception. Michael Sims explains.
Addiction, Nampeyo and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words
Listen to the latest celebrity memoirs in (mostly) their own recognizable voices.
2 Picture Books Celebrate the Poetry and Promise of Black Lives
In “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter” and “The ABCs of Black History,” U is for Unfinished.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
You'll Never Look At Your 'Good Neighbors' The Same Way Again
Sarah Langan's new novel takes the old theme of "something rotten in suburbia" and pushes it into the future, in an intense, uncomfortable story about class resentment and the horrors it can lead to.
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Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books
“I don’t. Often this is a problem.”
Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.”
While the Possible is Possible: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 3
In the final installment of our 2021 poetry preview, we bring you books that demonstrate the incredible capaciousness of poetry — and that we hope will be sustaining company for the year ahead.
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For Hafsah Faizal, Coding Was a Gateway to Writing
The author of two young adult novels learned the language of computing when her father bribed her with a pink laptop.
A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader
In “Sybille Bedford: A Life,” Selina Hastings takes the measure of an underappreciated 20th-century novelist.
New Translation Shares The Voice Of A Poet Who Wrote As Intensely As She Lived
Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen took her own life in 1976. A newly translated version of her three-part memoir traces the sometimes amusing, sometimes painful turns of her unconventional life.
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Legendary Director Mike Nichols Is As Brilliant As He Is Enigmatic In New Biography
In Mike Nichols: A Life, author Mark Harris presents an engrossing tale of the auteur as an outsider from the start who grew to find much success in Hollywood, despite some slumps.
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From Turkey to China to Norway, These Novels Take You Back in Time
A batch of fresh translations speaks to the universality of the human experience.
Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time?
In “Halfway Home,” Reuben Jonathan Miller draws on years of research and personal experience to write about how we understand incarceration and its afterlife.
Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism?
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at “The Black Panther Party,” a new history of the group, and “Come Home, Indio,” a memoir about growing up part Native American.
‘The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive,’ by Philippe Sands: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive,” by Philippe Sands
‘Milk Fed,’ by Melissa Broder: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Milk Fed,” by Melissa Broder
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