Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’
Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly discuss their new book, and Tim Winton talks about his most recent novel, “The Shepherd’s Hut.”
New Y.A. Crossover From Morgan Parker, Renée Ahdieh and More
“Who Put This Song On?,” “The Beautiful,” “Juliet Takes a Breath” and “American Royals” show many ways to survive the wrenching journey to adulthood.
When Lesbian Publishing Made It Big
A graphic tribute to the landmark Naiad Press.
'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS
James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.
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Considering Margaret Atwood and Uneasy Sisterhood
In Margaret Atwood’s 1993 novel “The Robber Bride,” three women encounter the glamorous and destructive college friend they thought had died five years earlier. Lorrie Moore reviewed it.
New in Paperback: ‘Looking for Lorraine’ and ‘Evolution’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
‘Something I’m Always Trying to Do Is Get You to Hang Out With Dead Bodies’
Caitlin Doughty, the mortician, self-described death activist and “funeral industry rabble-rouser,” has a new book, “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?”
Take A Dark Ride On The 'Night Boat To Tangier'
In Kevin Barry's grim but compassionate new novel, two weary Irish ex-crooks sit waiting in a run-down Spanish ferry terminal, waiting for one man's estranged daughter who may or may not show up.
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'Heaven, My Home' Is A Complicated Place
Attica Locke returns to the world of Highway 59 in Heaven, My Home, which finds Texas Ranger Darren Mathews dealing with the disappearance of the young son of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
One Part Gangster, One Part Philosophical Clown
“Night Boat to Tangier,” by Kevin Barry, features two battered old Irish drug smugglers right out of Beckett.
'Coventry' Touches On Gender, Self-Definition In Taking Control Of One's Narrative
In her first essay collection, Rachel Cusk writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity.
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In 'Doxology,' The Comedy Is Never Quite In Tune
Nell Zink is a very funny writer, but the comedy never quite works in her new novel, which follows two aging punks and their daughter, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the '80s to D.C. today.
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Leslie Jamison on the Best Book She Ever Got as a Present
The author, whose new essay collection is “Make It Scream, Make It Burn,” says that a boyfriend gave her a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel with a secret message inside. “I don’t think I fully appreciated this gesture at the time; now I do!”
A Death-Haunted Poetry Book Mulls Life’s Reversals of Fortune
“Dunce,” by Mary Ruefle, confronts the extraordinary yet inescapable fact that all of us die.
Racial Tensions Complicate The Search For A Missing Child In 'Heaven, My Home'
Attica Locke's new novel centers on a black Texas ranger's effort to find the vanished son of a white supremacist. Heaven, My Home offers an unsettling American spin on a complicated crime story.
What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy
“The Second Founding,” by the historian Eric Foner, argues that the radical promise of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — all passed after the Civil War — remains unfulfilled today.
In 'Savage Gods,' An Author Finds That Pondering Being Leads To An Inability To Write
Paul Kingsnorth moved to a small farm in Ireland to be closer to the land and to reconnect with the essence of being. Instead of contentment, he found that it was tough to find meaning in writing.
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A Translator’s Tribute to the Lifesaving Power of Words
In her evocative memoir, “Homesick,” Jennifer Croft recalls, in words and images, her troubled childhood and the solace she found in language.
More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help.
“Guts,” Raina Telgemeier’s warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home for parents and children trying to climb out of the abyss of worry.
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