Inside the List: Seeing Double on the Shelves
Book titles can’t be copyrighted, and that led to a recent dust-up on social media.
Notebook : Kurt Vonnegut’s World War II Scrapbook
An unpublished trove of photographs and letters the author kept while serving in the U.S. Army in Dresden provides the biographical context for his most influential novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
Children’s Books: Winter Holiday Treats For Picture Book Readers
A snowplow who works all night long, a naughty kid who breaks his mom’s favorite ornament, a fox hunting for a winter meal, and more in the season’s standout picture books.
New in Paperback: ‘A Kind of Freedom,’ ‘Secrecy World’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Poetry: He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work.
In poems that cajole, beguile, praise and evoke, Robert Bly makes the case that poetry should be near the center of life.
The Saturday Profile: A Dissident Chinese Novelist Finds Echoes of Mao, and Orwell
Ma Jian, one of the sharper observers of contemporary China, though living in exile for 30 years, says this era resembles that of the Cultural Revolution.
POETRY: Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist
“The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht,” translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine, brings together more than 1,000 poems.
The Shortlist: In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words
In these four deeply political, deeply personal books, poets grapple with some hot-button issues of the day.
Poetry: A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities
J. Michael Martinez’s “Museum of the Americas” takes on the white gaze, colonial trauma and Mexican migration.
Poetry: For an Ohio Poet, Love Is What Gets Us Through
Marcus Jackson’s first collection, “Pardon My Heart,” celebrates the way deep emotion unfogs and energizes the experience of living.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Margaret Atwood on Adrienne Rich.
Poetry: Poems About Loss That Shatter Meaning and Borders
“Be With,” by Forrest Gander, plumbs death and grief with an alertness to the fragility of life — and of language.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Poetry: A Debut Poet Confronts the Sexual Violence of an Earlier Generation
In “A Cruelty Special to Our Species,” Emily Jungmin Yoon memorializes the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution during World War II.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Profile: With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later
More than two decades after critics declared her “a writer of uncommon talent,” Nunez won the National Book Award.
By the Book: Alice Walker: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends.”
Poetry: A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy
In Anne Waldman’s latest collection, “Trickster Feminism,” her verses argue on behalf of collective expression — and collective responsibility.
Code Switch's 2018 Book Guide
We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.
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Nonfiction: In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down
Terrance Hayes’s hybrid nonfiction book “To Float in the Space Between” pays homage to the poet Etheridge Knight, with room for personal detours and meditation.
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