Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What Does Shakespeare Have To Do With 'Energy?' (Trust Us, There's A Link)
In his new book, Richard Rhodes lays out an accessible and surprisingly optimistic history of energy by exploring the lives of scientists and inventors — and a few unlikely people, like Bard of Avon.
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By the Book: Bill Clinton: By the Book
The former president Bill Clinton, who collaborated with James Patterson on the new thriller “The President Is Missing,” reads everywhere: “At my work table, in my easy chair, in bed and on the plane. Even in the car when I’m not too tired.”
Bookshelf: Coming to America
“Journeys” is a collection of 72 personal essays about how families from other countries started over in the United States.
Nonfiction: Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages
Mark Forsyth’s “A Short History of Drunkenness” looks at history as a long succession of heavy drinking.
Sexuality, Mortality, Failure — 'My Ex-Life' Has Fun Asking Big Questions
A divorced couple reconnects after nearly 30 years apart in Stephen McCauley's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan says My Ex-Life is a social satire that's "suffused with generosity."
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Nonfiction: Michael Chabon Tries Hard to Be a Good Dad
Judd Apatow reviews “Pops,” Chabon’s collection of essays about fatherhood and its discontents.
Nonfiction: How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution
Andrew Friedman’s “Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll” describes the changes in American culture brought about in restaurant kitchens.
Profile: A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi
Gaël Faye’s “Small Country,” a huge hit in France, lands in the United States next week.
Nonfiction: Don’t Try to Catch a Komodo Dragon — Unless You’re David Attenborough
In his new memoir, “Adventures of a Young Naturalist,” Attenborough tells stories from the nature show that first brought him to the animals.
Nonfiction: She Was a Model for Impressionist Masters. Then She Became One Herself.
Suzanne Valadon was too poor to study art, but as Catherine Hewitt makes clear in a new biography, “Renoir’s Dancer,” she learned a lot by posing for the great painters of her time.
'Some Trick' Takes On The Life Of The (Delightfully Irritable) Mind
Helen DeWitt's new story collection seems less like a book, and more like a series of notes from some vast, alien intelligence, capable of picking apart human habits with startling precision.
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Nonfiction: A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress
Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”
Nonfiction: When the Dinosaurs Reigned
The paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs” offers a narrative history of the ancient animals that used to rule the earth.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: Turning Circe Into a Good Witch
In Madeline Miller’s latest adaptation of Greek myth, “Circe,” we encounter a thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids
From the sidesplitting to the heartbreaking, the mysterious to the political, this must-listen list has something for everyone in your car.
Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids
Essential, family-friendly narratives for even the longest of car rides.
Nonfiction: Seeing America as Our Ice Age Ancestors Did
Part travelogue, part archaeological study, Craig Childs’s “Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America” reads like a docudrama — and doesn’t reflect reality.
What Happens When Two Enemies Fall In Love?
A love story between a black Army nurse and a German POW during World War II? You couldn't make that story up — and Alexis Clark, author of the upcoming book, Enemies in Love, didn't.
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