What We’re Reading
Plus: Recommendations from the Book Review poetry editor Greg Cowles
Gabriel García Márquez’s Best Books: A Guide
The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Even if you’ve never watched a priest levitate, a carpet fly or a drop of blood climb over curbs, there’s something for you.
Newly Published, From Young Adult Novels to the Irish Republican Army
A selection of recently published books.
New Translations of Brazilian Writer Mário de Andrea’s Canonical Works
Two translations bring canonical works by Mário de Andrade into English, allowing a glimpse into the author’s “problematic sense of belonging.”
Book Review: ‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das
England’s first foray into India, as Nandini Das details in “Courting India,” was far from successful.
In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Stage, at Last
A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about.
Book Review: “Bea Wolf,” by Zach Weinersmith, illustrated by Boulet, and “Mulysses,” by Øyvind Torseter
Bea Wolf is a sugar-hyped, nap-deprived, battle-ready child; Mulysses is a mule.
Book Review: ‘Bruno Schulz,’ by Benjamin Balint
A new book asks: To whom do the surviving remnants of the Jewish artist’s output — including murals he was forced to paint for a Nazi’s home — belong?
New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character
Two translations bring canonical works by Mário de Andrade into English, allowing a glimpse into the author’s “problematic sense of belonging.”
Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters
Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Jane LaTour, Fighter for Women in Labor Unions, Dies at 76
No stranger to blue-collar work herself, she pushed for equality in male-dominated unions and as a writer chronicled the struggles of “sisters in the brotherhoods.”
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: ‘George VI and Elizabeth’ by Sally Bedell-Smith
Sally Bedell Smith’s “George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy” explores a wholly different epoch in the Windsor saga.
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom
A book that proposed violent action in response to the climate crisis becomes a propulsive heist thriller.
The Wind Beneath Kara Goucher’s Wings? A Solid Teammate.
When she met with possible collaborators to talk about her memoir, the Olympic runner had her sights trained on one who would listen.
Susanna Hoffs Has a Dollar Bill Signed by William S. Burroughs
“I queued up to get his autograph with nothing but a dollar bill for him to sign,” says the pop star, whose debut novel is “This Bird Has Flown.” “He glanced up, amused, gave me a mischievous half-smile and said, ‘Ah, defacing U.S. currency,’ and proceeded to sign it.”
Poem: The Privilege of Thinking
Illumination is no one-way street.
My Mother: The Reader I’ve Always Wanted but May Never Have
How a language barrier can both limit and liberate.
How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing
The Stinging Fly has helped launch several of Ireland’s most promising writers. How has a publication with 1,000 subscribers carved a niche in the Irish canon?
It’s Their Content, You’re Just Licensing it
Recent automatic updates to e-book editions of works by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and Agatha Christie are a reminder of who really owns your digital media.
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