New Books About Music to Read This Summer
Our summer roundup features Reich’s “Conversations,” Dan Charnas’s “Dilla Time” and Spector’s “Be My Baby.”
Memories on High and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Remembering the ‘Great Stewardess Rebellion’
Nell McShane Wulfhart discusses her new history of a labor movement, and James Kirchick talks about “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.”
Review: ‘Probably Ruby,’ by Lisa Bird-Wilson; ‘Aue,’ by Becky Manawatu, and ‘Lucky Turtle,’ by Bill Roorbach
Coming-of-age novels set among the Métis community in Canada, the Māori population in New Zealand and the Crow Nation in Montana.
Why Are Bikes So Much Fun? Because They’re Not Cars.
In “Two Wheels Good,” Jody Rosen makes clear that the bicycle has touched nearly every element of life on earth.
How We Remember the Civil War
Controversies over how to memorialize the war began as soon as the conflict ended, and, as three new books show, they are still going on.
New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Child’ and ‘Libertie’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies
“What Can I Say?” and “You Know, Sex” help adolescents navigate the awkward age.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Elif Batuman Read Marie Kondo’s Book. Now Her Shelves Spark Joy.
“People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’” says the author, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” “I was able to let go of a lot of shame and self-hatred that turned out to be tied up in my accumulated belongings.”
Review: “The Hotel Nantucket” by Elin Hilderbrand and “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner
Elin Hilderbrand and Jennifer Weiner deliver their annual installments of salty air, summer love and personal entanglements.
Review: ‘Kafka’s Drawings,’ by Andreas Kilcher
A new book of the modernist’s sketches reveals the tension he saw between words and images.
Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother’s Holocaust Story
An 18-year-old student and a 98-year-old survivor teamed up to write “Lily’s Promise,” a best-selling memoir of Auschwitz and its aftermath.
Book Review: ‘The Latecomer,’ by Jean Hanff Korelitz
In “The Latecomer,” Jean Hanff Korelitz takes on complicated family dynamics, infidelity, race, class, religion, guilt, art and real estate.
Newly Published, From Rainbow Cocktails to Magical Beasts
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Strange, Slippery and Beautiful: A Master Essayist at Work
“The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick” presents a critic who ruminates on topics as varied as Maine, Monica Lewinsky and grits.
Book Review: ‘The Bar at Twilight,’ by Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten’s story collection “The Bar at Twilight” is full of bittersweet portraits of artists and the places that shaped them.
Review: “Sleepwalk,” by Dan Chaon
Just how lawless and unhinged can the world rendered in “Sleepwalk” get?
Review: ‘Evening Hero,’ by Marie Myung-ok Lee
In “The Evening Hero,” a retired Korean-born obstetrician navigates later adulthood in an unwelcoming American mining town.
Review: ‘What the Ermine Saw,’ by Eden Collinsworth
A history of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-Century portrait, “Lady With an Ermine,” is also a history of modern Europe.
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