9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both
In “Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker,” the essayist casts herself as equal parts victim of online cancel culture, and predator.
'Giants Of The Monsoon Forest' Explores The Lives Of Working Elephants In Asia
Geographer Jacob Shell describes the lives of these elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India that haul timber or transport people with details at once compelling and disturbing.
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Sarah Dessen’s ‘The Rest of the Story’ Lands at No. 2
“I’ve had a lot of young women tell me my books were a friend in high school when they didn’t have many,” Dessen says. “Man, I know that feeling.”
Summer Reader Poll 2019: Meet Our Expert Panelists!
We've got fantastic judges for this year's summer reader poll! Alexandra Petri, Aparna Nancherla, Guy Branum and Samantha Irby will take your votes and curate a final list of 100 side-splitting reads.
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'Recursion' Is A Puzzle Box Of Time Travel, Memory And Death
Blake Crouch's new book reads like a relative of those late night college conversations about Big Questions. Here, the question is, if you could live your life over again, but differently, would you?
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By the Book: Elliot Ackerman
The novelist and journalist, whose most recent book is the memoir “Places and Names,” thinks Vronsky gets a bad rap in “Anna Karenina”: “I believe that he loved Anna, in his strange broken way.”
‘Patsy’ Upends the Stereotypes of Immigrant and Gay Fiction
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s second novel “Patsy” follows a Jamaican woman as she begins a new life in Brooklyn, leaving her child behind.
California and Water: Half Environmental Nightmare, Half Remarkable Success Story
In “The Dreamt Land,” Mark Arax chronicles California’s attempt to control its greatest natural resource, often to detrimental effect.
New William S. Burroughs Book Sheds Light On The Literary Legend's Influence On Music
Relying on a wealth of research and documents, Casey Rae deftly maps out how one of America's most controversial literary figures transformed the lives of many notable rock musicians.
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'Unraveling' Sings A Cohesive, Unsettling Song
Brian Evenson's new collection brings together stories that have appeared in literary fiction, speculative fiction and horror publications — and yet they flow together into a disturbing whole.
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A Time-Twisting, Mind-Bending Novel, Perfect for Summer Reading
Blake Crouch’s alternate-reality thriller, “Recursion,” explores identity, memory and the very things that make us human.
Marriage Is a Mess in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
With her debut novel, Taffy Brodesser-Akner updates the midlife malaise story, starring a left-behind husband who suddenly becomes a single parent.
Jurors Generate Drama Of Their Own In Smart, Disturbing 'Body In Question'
Jill Ciment's new novel follows a group of bored, drowsy, horny jurors who are sequestered together as they serve on a gruesome murder case in Central Florida.
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Jurors Generate Drama Of Their Own In Smart, Disturbing 'Body In Question'
Jill Ciment's new novel follows a group of bored, drowsy, horny jurors who are sequestered together as they serve on a gruesome murder case in Central Florida.
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In 'The Enemy Of The People,' CNN Reporter Recounts His Time Covering President Trump
Jim Acosta comes across less like a reporter than a rival in his book — giving his side of the history of his interactions with the president and the legal battle to regain access to the White House.
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He Hears America Singing Guns N’ Roses
In “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems,” Campbell McGrath celebrates chain restaurants, rock music and the joyful raucous stupidity of pop culture.
'The Great Successor' Aims To Fill In Blanks On The Life Of North Korea's Kim Jong Un
Contrary to prevailing stereotypes, in Anna Fifield's reported story Kim is anything but a madman: Cold-blooded, for sure, but playing a calculated defensive strategy aimed at standing up his rule.
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How The Author Of 'Midnight Chicken' Unexpectedly Built A Life Worth Living
Ella Risbridger was suicidally depressed when she roasted a chicken and ended up writing an uplifting, genre-bending cookbook that reads like a magical mix of memoir, novel and self-help book.
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What Happened When Juror C-2 Met Juror F-17 at the Murder Trial
“The Body in Question,” a mordantly intelligent novel by Jill Ciment, features a sensational crime, a sequestered jury and a torrid love affair.
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