Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs
Reid Mitenbuler’s “Wild Minds” details wild times, when cartoonists pictured sex and death as well as cute animals.
New & Noteworthy, From Sex to Murder
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Answering Mail From Our Listeners
Critics and editors at The Times respond to questions about criticism, reading habits, favorite stories and more.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
‘Eyes Open. Hit First. Move Fast. Stop When He’s Dead.’
The Butcher’s Boy may no longer be a professional hit man, but he hasn’t forgotten how to kill, as we learn in Thomas Perry’s new novel, “Eddie’s Boy.”
For Ijeoma Oluo, Books and Bedtime Are a Perfect Combination
"Lately, I’ve been able to find a few minutes to read in bed each night after my family has gone to sleep and it’s been absolutely heavenly.”
Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us
Edmund Fawcett’s “Conservatism” is a sweeping history that reaches deep into the past but with startling relevance for the present.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Wants You to Get Some Fresh Air
In her best-selling essay collection, the veteran poet offers a cynicism-busting perspective on nature.
New in Paperback: ‘Brother & Sister’ and ‘The Resisters’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Eleanor Roosevelt Buying Pears and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist explains how Woolf turned an ordinary day in an ordinary life into a masterpiece.
Audiobooks to Get You Through the Most Distracted of Times
New fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barack Obama’s accent game, a Wilco frontman’s memoir and romance by Vonnegut.
A Mother Who Tries to Rescue Her Sons From the Maws of War
In “Lara’s Story,” the Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski recounts how one woman went searching in Syria for a son who had succumbed to radical Islam.
Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology
Two new books, Kermit Pattison’s “Fossil Men” and Meave Leakey’s “The Sediments of Time,” offer a glimpse into the adventurous world of the men and women searching for our origins.
‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times
In her memoir, Katherine May writes about coping with “a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress.”
New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
5 Picture Books About Civil Rights
From “the father of the Underground Railroad” to the first woman vice president, these Black action figures are poetry in motion.
'Tomorrow Will Be Better': Betty Smith's 'Rediscovered' Novel Is A Genuine Treasure
Smith's 1948 follow-up to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a forgotten novel that deserves to be exhumed. The things that made it an awkward response to its predecessor make it more intriguing now.
Agents of Change
Kerri Greenidge discusses two books about African-Americans in the years before the Civil War, and Neal Gabler talks about “Catching the Wind,” his biography of Edward Kennedy.
Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels
There’s something for everyone in these intelligent, offbeat happily-ever-afters.
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