Poetry: Marianne Moore’s Poetry, the Way She Intended It
Moore’s “New Collected Poems,” edited by Heather Cass White, does justice to one of the 20th century’s most singular poets.
The Shortlist: Fiction From Japan, for the Old World and the New
Recently translated novels by Shion Miura, Hiromi Kawakami and Kobo Abe explore romantic entanglements and revisit historical trauma.
Fiction: A Novel of Desperate New Yorkers and Those Who Evict Them
The Israeli immigrants in Joshua Cohen’s “Moving Kings” spend their days displacing delinquent tenants.
Nonfiction: If You Want to Know What It’s Like to Die, Ask Writers
In “The Art of Death,” Edwidge Danticat surveys an unknowable subject in its many guises.
Fiction: A Mystery Wrapped in Race, Class and Silence
In interlocking stories, “Tornado Weather,” by Deborah E. Kennedy, examines the fissures of race and class that divide a small town.
Help Desk: How to Ignore Your Kids’ Bad Behavior and Yet Be Fully Present for Them
New books on how to mete out gentle discipline, ignore tantrums and still pay maximum attention to your kids (as well as talk to them about Trump).
Fiction: ‘Bed-Stuy Is Burning’ Takes On Gentrification in Brooklyn
In Brian Platzer’s debut novel, a white couple live in a historically black neighborhood roiled by protest after a police shooting.
Light Reading: The Summer of Fire and Fury: A Reading List
The secretary of state wants Americans to relax. We’re here to help. Maybe a nice bedtime book to help you sleep?
Editors' Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
Catch A Philosophical Wave In 'Surfing With Sartre'
Philosophy professor and avid surfer Aaron James brings his two passions together in his new book, drawing connections between the surfer's state of mind and age-old philosophical conundrums.
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Nonfiction: The Man Who Ran the Country While Lincoln Lay Dying
Walter Stahr’s “Stanton” is a sympathetic treatment of the war secretary Edwin Stanton, a man once accused of complicity in Lincoln’s assassination.
Fiction: When Supernatural Abilities Are Less a Blessing Than a Curse
Daryl Gregory’s new novel, “Spoonbenders,” features the conflicted members of a family of psychics.
By the Book: Philippa Gregory: By the Book
The author of “The Last Tudor” is no fan of “sloppy genre novels”: “The typing alone is so exhausting — surely if you’re going to undertake 150,000 words, you might as well have something interesting to say?”
Newsbook: 3 Books That Can Help Explain the Crisis in Venezuela
Two biographies — of Simon Bolívar and Hugo Chávez — explain the men’s outsized influence on the country, and another book offers a path forward.
'What She Ate' Reveals The Plates And Palates Of 6 Notable Women
Laura Shapiro has likened her method of biographical research to "standing in line at the supermarket and peering into the other carts." Critic Maureen Corrigan says her resulting book is fascinating.
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Raunchy But Sweet, 'Mrs. Fletcher' Is One For The Ages
Tom Perrotta's new novel about a divorced mom and her college-aged son addresses some serious issues with dark humor. The result is uncompromisingly obscene, but still somehow good-natured.
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In 'Emma Reyes,' Life Through A Child's Clear Eyes
As an adult, the Colombian painter Emma Reyes lived in Paris and befriended Frida Kahlo. But in a series of autobiographical letters, she describes a childhood of grinding misery and poverty.
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Nonfiction: 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature
Bill Goldstein’s “The World Broke in Two” looks at four British writers — Woolf, Eliot, Forster and Lawrence — at a turning point in history.
Fiction: A Fictional Trip Through the Highly Politicized World of Children’s Literature
In Julia Glass’s novel, “A House Among the Trees,” a renowned author suddenly dies, leaving his longtime assistant to untangle his knotty legacy.
Fiction: A Double Murder Crossed With a Not-Quite Ghost Story
The troubled family in J. Robert Lennon’s “Broken River” discovers that small-town life offers no refuge.
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