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A graphic review of two new books that explain how the world’s insects came to be in peril.
A selection of books published this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “The Shores of Bohemia,” John Taylor Williams explores 50 years in the iconoclastic summer colonies of Cape Cod.
In “Doctors and Distillers,” Camper English explores the long-running interconnection between medicine and alcohol in daily life.
In her debut memoir, Ingrid Rojas Contreras summons stories from the living and the dead to connect her own experiences to those of her Colombian ancestors.
Before he wrote “The Silent Patient,” Alex Michaelides tried and tried again to make movies.
“I grew up working class and money was a factor in everything we did,” says the poet and novelist, whose new book is the memoir “Crying in the Bathroom.” “That’s why I always write about the financial realities of my characters.”
“I grew up working class and money was a factor in everything we did,” says the poet and novelist, whose new book is the memoir “Crying in the Bathroom.” “That’s why I always write about the financial realities of my characters.”
The narrator of Katixa Agirre’s “Mothers Don’t” obsesses over a distant acquaintance who murdered her two infant children.
In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s debut novel, an 8-year-old girl in Harlem is forced to change her body to fit someone else’s standard.
In “Human Blues,” Elisa Albert explores the lengths one woman will go to for a baby.
In Anuradha Roy’s latest novel, several lives are shattered after the creation of a ceramic sculpture in 1970s India.
In her new novel, Katherine Chen puts a fresh spin on the oft-examined life of the girl who saved France.
Equal parts fairy tale, ghost story and history, Monique Roffey’s new novel explores the legacy of colonialism and enslavement on a Caribbean island.
Alice Elliott Dark’s ambitious new novel, “Fellowship Point,” explores a lifetime of lessons about friendship, loyalty and land.
James Gavin’s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic and infuriating man.
Daniel Nieh’s “Take No Names,” filled with international intrigue and cross-border conflicts, is a noir novel for the modern age.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Gabrielle Zevin talks about “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” and Morgan Talty discusses “Night of the Living Rez.”
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