11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
Courage inside a Brooklyn hospital. A husband’s illness. Learning to swim. The survivors of Thalidomide. C.E.O.s are just like us — logged on from the laundry room. And more.
A 12-Year-Old Gymnast Heals After a Coach’s Sexual Abuse
Helped by a raft of strong women, the heroine of Kate Messner’s “Chirp” reclaims the parts of her childhood she’s not ready to leave behind.
In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, a writer turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too.
In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings
The end of relationships, the end of life, the end of civilization: Collections from Major Jackson, Carolyn Forché, Victoria Chang and Danez Smith imagine the worst.
New in Paperback: ‘Savage Feast’ and ‘The Bird King’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives
This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Tigers, Not Daughters' Is Haunting — With Or Without A Ghost
In Samantha Mabry's new novel, three prickly sisters are haunted, maybe literally, by their fourth, who's died in an accident. She has a message for them, but they may be too sunk in grief to hear it.
(Image credit: Algonquin Books for Young Readers)
Yes, You Can Channel Your Stress Into Creativity. Here’s How.
An art critic shares his best advice for transforming that uncomfortable feeling into a thing of beauty.
Attention, Working Writers: Lorrie Moore Admires What You Do
“I also admire the ones who are taking a break and not working.”
New York Comes Alive — Literally — In 'The City We Became'
Three-time Hugo Award winner N.K. Jemisin turns her attention to our world in her new book — or at least, a version of our world in which cities can be born in human form to fight evil.
(Image credit: Petra Mayer/NPR)
Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis
Books from the past show us how John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confronted the crises they faced.
In 'The Glass Hotel,' The Disasters Are Smaller But Still Disruptive
Emily St. John Mandel's powerful new novel follows a troubled brother and sister who get involved with a crooked hotel magnate whose Ponzi scheme destroys the lives of his investors.
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‘The City We Became,’ by N.K. Jemisin: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The City We Became,” by N.K. Jemisin
This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s new book combines memoir and reporting to tell the stories behind the headlines.
In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska
Genie Chance felt the earth move under her feet, and then she got to work. Jon Mooallem tells her story in “This Is Chance!”
Should More Defendants Be Claiming Insanity?
Susan Nordin Vinocour’s “Nobody’s Child” uses one case as a prism for examining the history and future of the insanity defense in American courtrooms.
Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain
“Pain Studies,” by Lisa Olstein, and “Constellations,” by Sinead Gleeson, plumb the authors’ experiences with suffering to creative effect.
New York Is Alive (Literally) in N.K. Jemisin’s New Novel
“The City We Became” is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
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