Youngmi Mayer’s New Memoir, “I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying”
The comedian Youngmi Mayer is fearless on TikTok, about her Korean American identity and foodie culture. In a new memoir, she explains laughing while crying.
Book Review: ‘Memories of Distant Mountains,’ by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks lead us to the great writer’s mind, then ask us to remain outside.
10 Charming Picture Books About Being Thankful
Stories of giving and of appreciating everyday wonders will warm hearts and teach valuable lessons this holiday season.
Book Review: ‘The White Ladder,’ by Daniel Light
In “The White Ladder,” the British writer Daniel Light explores the heroes, villains and dramas of early mountaineering.
Book Review: ‘American Bulk: Essays on Excess,’ by Emily Mester
In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.
Reading, With Extra Cheese: Remembering Pizza Hut’s ‘Book It!’
Reporting on the 40th anniversary of the popular pizza literacy program sent one writer on a mozzarella-scented memory trail.
2 Books for Readers Who Don’t Care About Polite Company
A Japanese tale of “frustrated love and revenge,” and a visual history of bathrooms.
A Long-Held Secret is Now Public. Will it Alter Cormac McCarthy’s Legacy?
Revelations about a relationship between the author and a woman who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of his work. Now there’s a debate about how much she influenced his writing.
Americans Learned to Root for the Supervillain — From Elon Musk to ‘Wicked’
How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker and “Wicked” to Elon Musk.
Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring
Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.
Mike Shatzkin, Colorful Publishing Industry Guru, Dies at 77
His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.
Harold W. Sims Jr., Whose Museum Honored the House Cat, Dies at 89
He displayed some 10,000 cat-themed artifacts at the American Museum of the House Cat in North Carolina, which welcomed several thousand people a year.
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’
Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.
New Crime Novels
Our critic on November’s best new books.
For a Raw Portrait of War, Look to Palestinian Poets
In their new collections, Mosab Abu Toha and Najwan Darwish share unvarnished views of destruction, displacement and loss.
Two New Picture Books Set the Table for an Object Lesson
Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.
Spencer Lawton Jr., D.A. in ‘Midnight in the Garden’ Case, Dies at 81
He devoted much of his 28 years in office in Savannah to victims’ rights, but he was best known for his role in a 1981 murder at the center of a best seller and its movie version.
6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sex and Horror and the End of the World, in November’s Graphic Novels
This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.
Book Review: ‘Family Romance,’ by Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.
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