Building a New Canon of Black Literature
What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?
Book Review: ‘Pineapple Street,’ by Jenny Jackson
In Jenny Jackson’s debut novel, “Pineapple Street,” readers get a tour of a world they might learn not to envy by the end of the book.
Book Review: ‘Old Babes in the Wood,’ by Margaret Atwood
Her new story collection, “Old Babes in the Wood,” offers elegiac scenes from a marriage plus a grab bag of curious fables.
Book Review: “The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams,” by Daniel Nayeri
In Daniel Nayeri’s new middle grade novel, a runaway orphan boy joins a caravan and falls under the sway of its loquacious leader.
Book Review: ‘The Hive,’ by Camilo José Cela
Some 300 characters — bartenders, deadbeats, dreamers — animate Madrid in “The Hive,” by the Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela.
Ari Shapiro Reads Cookbooks for Comfort and Pleasure
“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America
A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.
And the Oscar Goes to … Books!
The Dolby Theater isn’t the only place where stars gather; they also tend to pop up on the best-seller list. Here are four recent visitors who deserve to take a bow.
Poem #1022
In Borzutzky’s poem, living poems emerge from the departed, and without these expressions, “the dead are assassinated.”
Book Review: ‘We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I,’ by Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh’s highly personal memoir probes a relationship that might have been.
Ari Shapiro Reads Cookbooks for Comfort and Pleasure
“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”
Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76
He produced many books about film. But Groucho Marx tried to stop distribution of one collaborative effort because he didn’t like seeing his salty and insulting remarks in print.
14 Books Coming in March
A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.
Book Review: ‘Wisconsin Death Trip,’ by Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy’s book of historical photographs and found text offers a singular portrait of American life.
Newly Published, From Uncreative Architecture to Floating Boys
A selection of recently published books.
Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy
The Signature Theater production is based on correspondence between the playwright Sarah Ruhl and a student of hers, who died of cancer at 25.
Book Review: ‘The Emotional Lives of Teenagers,’ by Lisa Damour, and ‘It. Goes. So. Fast.,’ by Mary Louise Kelly
These books examine the experience of living with adolescents — including the good, the bad and the bittersweet.
Penguin Random House Announces New Leadership After a Turbulent Period
The country’s largest publisher has had a rocky few months since a deal to buy a rival fell through, and some of its top executives left.
Book Review: ‘Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld,’ by William Middleton
The fashion world’s hunger for larger-than-life figures glorified the designer. But a cozy new biography shows him to be more business whiz than artist.
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