10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Title of Emma Straub’s New Novel Is Mocking Her
“All Adults Here” is not an accurate description of her life these days.
The Science Fiction Writer John Scalzi Readily Quits Reading
“Life is short and there are many other books.”
'Wuhan Diary' Brings Account Of China's Coronavirus Outbreak To English Speakers
Before COVID-19 engulfed the Chinese city of Wuhan, Fang Fang was already an award-winning novelist. But her chronicle of the lockdown of her hometown might be her most lasting work.
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'Here We Are': What Would Philip Roth Have Made Of All This?
Benjamin Taylor, one of Roth's closest friends during the last decades of his life, has written a memoir that rekindles Roth's voice: brilliant, profane, and so very funny.
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'Funny Weather' Asks What Art Can Do In A Crisis
At her best, Olivia Laing turns criticism into an elevated form of hospitality: Like a good party host, she introduces you to someone, tells you what she likes about them, then leaves you to it.
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‘The Arab Winter,’ by Noah Feldman: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Arab Winter,” by Noah Feldman
New & Noteworthy, From a Korean Thriller to John Maynard Keynes
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
How Walking Changes Us
“In Praise of Walking” and “In Praise of Paths” offer two very different approaches to the benefits of taking regular strolls.
For May, 3 Romantic Getaways — To Normalcy
As the lockdown stretches on, we bring you three books that offer an escape to a time when people could gather — and fall in love — in a shop, at a book club, or even in an office.
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‘A Children’s Bible,’ by Lydia Millet: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “A Children’s Bible,” by Lydia Millet
The Pirates’ Booty That Changed the Course of History
In “Enemy of All Mankind,” Steven Johnson argues that a 1695 showdown on the high seas was a crucial turning point in the rise of the British Empire.
Would You Trust a Snake-Wielding Preacher, if He Were Your Dad?
The heroine of Amy Jo Burns’s debut novel, “Shiner,” comes of age amid the patriarchy of contemporary Appalachia.
How ‘Sesame Street’ Changed Childhood Forever
In “Sunny Days,” David Kamp traces a revolutionary decade in kids’ TV.
In Richard Ford’s New Stories, Ambivalence Is the Default Condition
His collection “Sorry for Your Trouble” features characters who find that the pieces of their lives no longer fit.
The Challenges of a Threatening World
In “The World,” Richard Haass urges Americans to educate themselves about an increasingly dangerous planet.
African-Americans in the New Deal
Jill Watts’s “The Black Cabinet” highlights the struggles of those African-Americans who worked in the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
‘What Pea Disrupts Your Sleep, Princess?’
In “The Shapeless Unease,” the British novelist Samantha Harvey ponders her struggles with insomnia.
A French Expert Surveys the Entire Middle East
Gilles Kepel’s “Away From Chaos” is a useful overview of the many changes that have roiled the Muslim world.
The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan’s “Atomic Spy” offers new material on Klaus Fuchs, the notorious Manhattan Project physicist.
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