The Week in Books
A deep dive into the Chernobyl disaster, a debut British-Palestinian novelist and more.
5 things about your book: Erin Lee Carr on Father-Daughter Joys and Struggles
Carr’s new memoir, “All That You Leave Behind,” documents her relationship with her father, the former Times reporter and columnist David Carr, and her own troubles, including with alcoholism.
These 'Women Talking' Build Their Own Faith And Future
Miriam Toews' new novel follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of horrific sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Poetry: A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence
Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression.
Court Life Is Murder In 'The Poison Bed'
Elizabeth Fremantle's twisty, deceptive new novel is based on the real-life story of the Earl and Countess of Somerset, who were convicted in the murder of a friend-turned-enemy in 1616.
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Sketchbook: The Author’s Journey
A graphic look at the life cycle of writing a book.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Book Review Podcast: The Chernobyl Disaster in Full
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson’s “Coders.”
In 'What You Have Heard Is True,' A Poet Bears Witness To Devastating Civil War
Though it took poet Carolyn Forché half a lifetime to fully share in a memoir what she saw during her time in El Salvador in the 1970s and the lessons learned, now is precisely when we need to see it.
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'Richard's Valley' Is Worth A Visit — But You Might Not Be Welcome There
Artist Michael DeForge's enigmatic new graphic novel is all about ambivalence — belonging, displacement, escape and return. Also, strangely charming, blobby animals with all-too-human feelings.
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Nonfiction: A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees
C.D. Wright’s posthumous book “Casting Deep Shade” offers a guided walk through beech forests and her own wide-ranging mind.
From Our Archives: Revisiting the Bonds of Friendship in Lisa See’s “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”
Lisa See’s 2005 novel “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” presents a bond between two women — laotongs, or “old sames” — in nineteenth-century China.
Children’s Books: Entrancing Poetry Picture Books
Some of the best illustrated children’s books are not stories — they’re poems that use language, form and rhythm to let kids reflect, imagine and think.
Nonfiction: The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture
“The Club,” by Leo Damrosch, is a dazzling history of the get-togethers during which London’s leading lights — including Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith — ate, drank and exchanged ideas.
Nonfiction: New Directions for American Foreign Policy
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “The Empire and the Five Kings” and Ted Galen Carpenter’s “Gullible Superpower” offer conflicting advice on where we should go from here.
New in Paperback: ‘Kudos,’ ‘Washington Black’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: ‘Like a JDate for the Dead’
In Nathan Englander’s “Kaddish.com,” a Brooklyn man — who’s defected from Orthodox Judaism — hires a stranger to recite the Kaddish prayers for his father.
Inside the List: Best-Selling Books, Unusual Authors
Alice Paul Tapper, who wrote “Raise Your Hand,” is just 11. And the author of the Expanse novels, James S. A. Corey, is really two men — Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
Fiction: Fast Times at Citywide Academy for the Performing Arts
In her new novel, “Trust Exercise,” Susan Choi trains her lens on a group of high school drama students, zooming in first on their teenage years, then focusing on them years later.
Crime: Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features Bernie Gunther’s final appearance in Berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric Swedish sleuth.
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