A Climate-Crisis Novel Offers True-to-Life Snapshots of Survival
“Stillicide,” a novel by Cynan Jones, imagines a world where an extended drought has transformed daily life.
Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America
Two new works of history, “South to Freedom,” by Alice L. Baumgartner, and “The Kidnapping Club,” by Jonathan Daniel Wells, show how the actions of Black Americans have long influenced national politics.
Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book
The star and co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” wryly explores adolescent angst, adult trauma and musical theater in a new memoir, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are.”
Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It
“Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple,” an updated cookbook, offers useful lessons in economy for trying times.
You Don't Have To Like Astrology To Love 'Written In The Stars'
A free-spirited astrology blogger and a straitlaced insurance actuary agree to fake a relationship — and then really fall for each other in Alexandria Bellefleur's charming queer romance.
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A Girl Raised in Isolation Stumbles on an Exit
“Cleo Porter and the Body Electric,” a lighthearted adventure written before the pandemic, imagines a post-virus world eerily like the one we now inhabit.
Light Punctures The Darkness In 'One Night Two Souls Went Walking'
Ellen Cooney's new novel follows an unnamed hospital chaplain on her rounds, as she ministers to patients and grapples with her own internal questions. It's a quiet, inward-looking but hopeful story.
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Razzle Dazzle, Part 2: Broadway Triumphs Again
Michael Riedel’s “Singular Sensation” tracks the blockbuster successes of the 1990s.
Undreamed Waters, Unexpected Shores
Two remarkable new picture books about ships that pass in the night.
David Byrne on Turning ‘American Utopia’ Into a Book
Byrne talks about his work with the artist Maira Kalman on his latest book, and Brittany K. Barnett discusses “A Knock at Midnight.”
Using the Bible in an Apocalypse and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback:
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Considering Malcolm X and the Perfect Black Man
Michael P. Jeffries reviews Les Payne and Tamara Payne’s book, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X,” in this week’s issue. In 1992, Michael Eric Dyson wrote for the Book Review about a select group of books that examine Malcolm X’s life.
Young Adult Debuts
Coming-of-age stories from four first-time novelists.
Into the Woods
In Gavriel Savit’s “The Way Back,” a National Book Award finalist, two children leave their shtetl and venture to the Far Country.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect.
In “The Law of Innocence,” someone has planted a corpse in the trunk of the snazzy lawyer’s famous Lincoln Town Car.
Book Review: ‘A Promised Land,’ by Barack Obama
This first volume of the former president’s memoirs brims with warmth, humor and introspection.
Former President Obama Tells His Story His Way — And Makes His Case For History
Obama's ascent thrilled millions, but also stirred a counter-movement that is still on the march. His new memoir A Promised Land covers his rise through the second year of his presidency.
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Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe's 'One Life' Is Mostly A Call To Action
Rapinoe's book traces her own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world.
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