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The Australian comedian brings distinctive flair to the structure and tone of her memoir.
Memoirs by Samantha Hunt, Natalie Hodges and Ashley Marie Farmer transform grief into literature.
Stefan Al’s “Supertall” is a thoughtful inquiry into the new generation of skyscrapers, which are taller and more ubiquitous than their predecessors.
His new book is composed entirely of questions posed in interviews over his long career.
“The Forever Prisoner,” by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, tells the story of a man who has been held captive by the C.I.A. for 20 years.
In “If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English,” Noor Naga explores the forces of identity, belonging and globalism, as they bear down on two new lovers.
In her memoir, “Healing,” Theresa Brown recalls what she learned from her own treatment for breast cancer.
In her debut novel, “Things They Lost,” Okwiri Oduor uses magical realism to explore toxic mother-daughter relationships.
“Blind Owl,” by Sadeq Hedayat, is a hallucinatory short novel that upends Persian artistic traditions.
In “Left on Tenth,” the veteran author looks back on a series of life-altering events, including a whirlwind romance at the age of 72.
The cartoonist’s new graphic novel, “Let There Be Light,” recasts the story of Genesis with God as a neurotic artist a lot like Liana Finck.
The ballet dancer reviews Toni Bentley’s sixth book: part memoir, part ode to George Balanchine and the art form he immortalized.
The critic Jennifer Wilson discusses new books by Yevgenia Belorusets and Andrey Kurkov, and Ben McGrath talks about “Riverman.”
Grace D. Li’s debut, “Portrait of a Thief,” is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
Michelle de Kretser’s two-part novel, “Scary Monsters,” follows a young teacher in 1980s France and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Australia.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Simon Heffer’s “High Minds” traces the impact of reformers on industrial Britain, and the beginnings of the welfare state.
Where Kelly Barnhill’s monster in “The Ogress and the Orphans” stands in for demagogy, Christina Soontornvat’s creature in “The Last Mapmaker” is a colonialist’s prize.
“My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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