Nonfiction: Isaac Mizrahi Found Freedom Through Fashion
In his memoir, “I.M.,” the designer recalls his climb from Brooklyn misfit to American design icon.
Meet The Lagoon's Forgotten Lady And See 'The Strangest Movie Never Made'
The Lady from the Black Lagoon tells the story of Milicent Patrick, who designed the Creature's monster suit. Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers script scenario written by Salvador Dalí.
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'Sea People' Examines The Origins And History Of Polynesia
Christina Thompson deftly weaves her fascinating narrative of European travels and attempts to understand the Polynesian puzzle in her new book, though European colonization is not fully addressed.
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Nonfiction: Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity
In “Figuring,” Popova roams over 400 years of science and poetry, highlighting women who have added to the history of creativity and invention.
Nonfiction: Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance
Lynne Olson’s “Madame Fourcade’s Secret War” tells of a woman who led the fight against the Nazis while combating sexism among her colleagues.
'Pocahontas And The English Boys' Bridged 2 Wildly Different Cultures
Historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shines a new light on Pocahontas, showing how she made her way as a go-between for her two cultures, and introducing us to her long-forgotten English counterparts.
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Entertained But Underwhelmed By This European Bestseller? Join 'The Club'
German author Takis Würger's debut novel, a thriller about a secret society at Cambridge University, also tackles hot-button issues of privilege and toxic masculinity. It's now out in English.
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: When Science Fiction Comes True
Sci-fi writers gave us satellite communication, army tanks, tablets, CCTV and the internet — before these things existed in real life. What explains their powers of foresight?
Fiction: Leila Aboulela’s American Debut Collects Stories of the Muslim Immigrant Experience
“Elsewhere, Home” gathers perspectives from Aberdeen to Cairo in a much-needed nod to the universality of the human condition.
Books News: Scholar of the Marshall Plan Wins American History Book Prize
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” has won the New-York Historical Society’s prize for the best work of American history.
'The Volunteer' Is A War Story Unlike Any Other
Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.
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Nonfiction: A New York Times Lawyer Looks Back at His Most Memorable Cases
David McCraw’s “Truth in Our Times” is a behind-the-scenes report on one newspaper’s legal battles with the Trump administration and others.
Fiction: A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories
David Means’s latest collection, “Instructions for a Funeral,” is filled with adulterers and criminals, railroad bums and wharf rats and other castaways.
'The Altruists' Asks: How Do You Live A Good Life?
Andrew Ridker's sharp, compassionate first novel follows a family of flawed but sympathetic bumblers whose efforts to do good more often end up causing harm — to themselves and others.
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Nonfiction: A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots
In “The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges,” Aatish Taseer mourns the politicization of traditional Hindu values and the rise of religious bigotry.
'Gingerbread' Is A Delightfully Spicy Family Fable
Helen Oyeyemi played with fairy tale ideas in the past; her new novel takes off from "Hansel and Gretel" for the story of a mother, a daughter and a mysteriously powerful family gingerbread recipe.
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Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews of Classic Books From The Times’s Archive
We called “Sister Carrie” a book “one can get along very well without reading,” dismissed “Lolita” as “dull, dull, dull,” and had nothing nice to say about “Howards End.”
Fiction: A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone” uses a young man’s search for his personal ancestry as a way of unearthing hidden aspects of his country’s violent past.
The Book Review Podcast: A Violent Summer in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz discusses “An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago,” and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, “The Wall.”
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