What We’re Reading
Gilbert Cruz talks to Book Review staff members about the books they’ve been enjoying lately.
Book Review: “Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar,” by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, and “Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!,” written by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Before her, guitarists played the blues, and mostly sat down doing it. Sister Rosetta Tharpe stepped out.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Trang Thanh Tran Has a Song for That
From Pomplamoose to MXMS to Taylor Swift, this best-selling author’s playlist is tailored to all the moods in “She Is a Haunting.”
Book Review: ‘Still Life With Bones,’ by Alexa Hagerty
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina — and what such work means for the families of victims.
Mona Simpson’s Fiancé Promised to Read ‘Middlemarch.’ He Never Did. Now He’s Her Ex.
“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.”
New Crime Books From Joyce Carol Oates, Harini Nagendra and More
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ’48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,’ by Joyce Carol Oates
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ‘Birchers,’ by Matthew Dallek
A new account of the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek charts its history — and outsize influence on the contemporary Republican Party.
Newly Published, From a Mozambican Emperor to Nazi Face Transplants
A selection of recently published books.
Ann Napolitano’s New Novel, “Hello Beautiful,” Is the 100th Pick of Oprah’s Book Club
Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with “Dear Edward.” Then came the call: “Hello Beautiful” was the 100th pick for what is arguably the most influential book club in the world.
In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine
In “Still Life With Bones,” the anthropologist Alexa Hagerty describes how she learned to see the dead with a forensic eye — and to listen to the living.
Book Review: ‘How to Think Like a Woman,’ by Regan Penaluna
In “How to Think Like a Woman,” Regan Penaluna, a scholar who left the field, takes it to task for its historical misogyny and persistent sexism.
Book Review: ‘Truth and Repair,’ by Judith Herman
In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.”
Book Review: ‘Y/N,’ by Esther Yi
In Esther Yi’s weird and wondrous ‘Y/N,’ a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul.
Book Review: ‘The Lost Americans,’ by Christopher Bollen
In Christopher Bollen’s novel “The Lost Americans,” a New Yorker seeks answers about her brother’s sudden death abroad.
Book Review: ‘The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery’
In “The Real Work,” the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself.
Book Review: ‘Walking Practice,’ by Dolki Min
In Dolki Min’s debut novel, “Walking Practice,” an extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth shows what it means to feel out of place in one’s body and its surroundings.
Book Review: ‘Heart Sutra,’ by Yan Lianke
“Heart Sutra” focuses on faith under state control.
Review: ‘The Dog of the North,’ by Elizabeth McKenzie
In “The Dog of the North,” Elizabeth McKenzie maps the zany travels of an injury-prone clan with a hole at its center.
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