Is the Green New Deal Realistic? Two Sympathetic Authors Weigh In
In new books, Naomi Klein and Jeremy Rifkin take very different approaches to A.O.C.’s progressive climate proposal.
Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise.
In “Coventry,” the British author of the widely admired “Outline” trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision.
Love Among the Ruins
In Stella Tillyard’s novel “Call Upon the Water,” a 17th-century Dutch engineer sets out to drain the English fenlands, but finds his spirit drained instead.
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Disney to Drag
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals
Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own, and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
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3 Crackling Young Adult Reads To Welcome Fall
Time to put down the beach reads and pick up some substantive, immersive new young adult books — from a monstrous fantasy, to a refugee's tale, to a story that brings new meaning to haunted houses.
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A Bluesy, Sweetly Aching New Novel From Jacqueline Woodson
In “Red at the Bone,” the effects of an unplanned teenage pregnancy ripple through three generations of a Brooklyn family.
'Homesick' Is A Boundary-Expanding Story Of Devotion And Growing Up
Accomplished translator Jennifer Croft's first non-translated work is a hybrid, mixing photography and impressionistic autobiographical writing to tell the story of Croft's artistic coming of age.
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'The Divers' Game' Depicts An Unimaginably Unjust, All Too Believably Cruel World
In author Jesse Ball's universe, which runs too closely parallel to our own, human worth has been reduced, negated, argued out of existence. But it has left an echo, one with a haunting symphony.
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'Don't You Forget About' This Charming, Deliciously Dramatic Romance
Mhairi McFarlane's latest follows the unfortunate, aimless Georgina as she deals with her father's death, a bad boyfriend and a worse job — until her first love unexpectedly walks back into her life.
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What Happened To The American Dream? 'Transaction Man' Aims To Explain
Nicholas Lemann's book seeks to put into context the turn that, little more than a decade ago, led to a caving economy — and takes a look at where things have gone since.
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You'll Want To Open Every One Of 'The Ten Thousand Doors Of January'
Alix E. Harrow's debut novel, about a young woman growing up in a mysterious mansion at the turn of the last century, will lead you on a journey through books within books and worlds within worlds.
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‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers
A new account by the New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly reinvestigates the allegations of sexual misconduct against the justice.
Anne Rivers Siddons, Novelist Whose Muse Was the New South, Dies at 83
She found inspiration in her Georgia upbringing and in Atlanta’s evolution into a major postwar city.
In 'Something Deeply Hidden,' Sean Carroll Argues There Are Infinite Copies Of You
The physicist dives into fraught territory, taking up the age-old debate over quantum mechanics — aiming to convince readers that the Many Worlds interpretation is the one that describes reality.
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Yes, They Found It in a Box
Twenty-one years ago, Dr. Seuss’ widow discovered some unpublished manuscripts, including one that has become “Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum,” illustrated by Andrew Joyner.
'The Accusation' Tracks The False Narrative Of Blood Libel
Edward Berenson looks at what led up to the false narrative that Jewish people murder Christian children and use their blood, its perpetuation, and the single 1928 U.S. allegation of blood libel.
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Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk about their new book, “She Said,” and Ian Urbina discusses “The Outlaw Ocean.”
She’s So Unusual. Is She Magical?
In Laurel Snyder’s “My Jasper June,” the truth is complicated, but the lifesaving power of friendship never flickers.
What Happens When an African-American Girl From Oregon Discovers Harlem?
In Renée Watson’s “Some Places More Than Others,” the historic black neighborhood is home to family secrets, cultural riches — and culture shock.
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