Book Review: ‘Surrender,’ by Bono
In his new book, “Surrender,” the singer remembers hanging out with everyone from the Edge to Bill Gates.
Children’s Books About Immigration
Five new children’s books explore the meaning of home.
Book Review: ‘Foster,’ by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s new novella sends a poor child into a childless home in southeast Ireland.
Book Review: ‘The Grimkes,’ by Kerri Greenidge
“The Grimkes,” by the historian Kerri Greenidge, provides a nuanced, revisionist account of an American family best known for a pair of white abolitionist sisters.
Book Review: ‘The Lemon,’ by S.E. Boyd
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman
The Times’s comedy critic discusses his 2017 biography, “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night,” and the Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson talks about Oklahoma City and his 2018 book, “Boom Town.”
The Haunted Past
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives.
Book Review: ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
“The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” which won the 2022 Booker Prize, is an account of wartime Sri Lanka by the ghost of a photojournalist.
Novellas by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hervé Guibert and Others
Fiction from Hiroko Oyamada, Eduardo Halfon, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Hervé Guibert.
Book Review: ‘Ted Kennedy,’ by John A. Farrell
John A. Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy” is a sympathetic take on a complex life.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New Horror Fiction
In “Motherthing,” by Ainslie Hogarth, a woman discovers her husband’s mother is even more bothersome dead than alive.
Kevin Wilson By the Book Interview
“I tend to love books where freakishness isn’t presented as something inhuman,” says the author, whose new novel is “Now Is Not the Time to Panic,” “but rather an affirmation of what it means to be a human being trying to survive in a very inhospitable world.”
Newly Published, From Flamingo Feathers to North Korea
A selection of books published this week.
Book Review: ‘Diaghilev’s Empire,’ by Rupert Christiansen
The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence.
Review: ‘The Singularities,’ by John Banville
“The Singularities” is an ambitiously referential work that confronts some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Book Review: ‘The New Yorkers,’ by Sam Roberts
A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
Book Review: ‘The Ransomware Hunting Team,’ by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
In their new book, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden explain how a ragtag band of international tech nerds have defended the defenseless against cybercrime.
Book Review: ‘The Song of the Cell,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit — and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
Book Review: ‘The Women of Rothschild,’ by Natalie Livingstone
A new biography by Natalie Livingstone focuses on several generations of the banking family’s wives and daughters, documenting their passions for politics, science and music, all abetted by wealth and social connections.
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