Book Club Archive: Jesmyn Ward Answers Book Club Members’ Questions
February’s Now Read This pick is: “Killers of the Flower Moon,” by David Grann.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Starlings' Showcases An Imagination That Stretches To The Stars
Jo Walton says her new collection isn't actually a book of short stories — rather, these pieces are jokes, exercises or odd poems. Either way, Starlings proves endlessly fascinating and inventive.
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Fiction: A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death
“The Afterlives,” by Thomas Pierce, explores the fluidity of human existence.
Nonfiction: The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism?
In “To Fight Against This Age,” Rob Riemen argues that culture and humanism are the best weapons against modern anti-liberal trends.
By the Book: Amy Chua: By the Book
The law professor and author Amy Chua never read parenting guides when her children were young — “Maybe that was my problem!” — and didn’t intend to write one with “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”
Nonfiction: The War That Will Not End
In “Directorate S,” Steve Coll recounts America’s seemingly futile search for victory in Afghanistan.
Books News: The Globalization of the National Book Awards
The foundation is adding a new prize to recognize works in translation.
Books of The Times: ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations
Ronen Bergman’s blend of history and investigative reporting is a humane book about a contentious subject.
LBJ Shares The Spotlight — Finally — In 'Building The Great Society'
Lyndon Baines Johnson was an outsize character who gets a lot of credit for his adminstration's successes — but he didn't do it alone, and Joshua Zeitz' new book looks at his most influential aides.
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Nonfiction: To Respect the Earth’s Limits — or Push Them?
“The Wizard and the Prophet,” Charles C. Mann’s new double biography of William Vogt and Norman Borlaug, presents the essential debate of environmentalism.
Books News: Kwame Alexander to Start His Own Imprint. The Name? Versify. Get it?
The author of “The Crossover” is looking for risky, unconventional children’s books.
3 Harlem Renaissance Novels Deliver An Ingenious Take On Race
Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.
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Match Book: Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love
Whether or not you’re nursing a heartbreak, these tales of unsettled passions will appeal to the romantic in all of us.
'The Hazel Wood' Has Few Uses For Enchantment
In Melissa Albert's dark take on fairy tales, 17-year-old Alice has spent her entire life on the run from her family legacy: a terrifying mythical world created by her grandmother, a famous author.
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Nonfiction: Enter the Holodeck
Two new books by virtual reality experts, Jaron Lanier and Jeremy Bailenson, describe how the technology will change us.
Fiction: A Girl Vanishes. But in This Novel, Time Is the Real Mystery.
Jon McGregor’s “Reservoir 13” looks beneath the surface of ordinary lives over the course of a dozen-plus years.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: The Plight of Working Women, as Seen by the Woman in the Corner Office
“That’s What She Said,” by the former USA Today editor in chief Joanne Lipman, tackles gender politics at work with sympathy and reams of data.
Essay: Transportive Reading for Underground Transportation
We have the “beach read” and the “airplane read,” but what about those books best suited for the subway?
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