Two Strangers Meet in a Cafe in Cairo. What Happens Next Is Complicated.
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.
A Nurse Finds Herself on the Other Side of the Equation — as a Patient
In her memoir, “Healing,” Theresa Brown recalls what she learned from her own treatment for breast cancer.
She’s a 12-Year-Old Girl and Also a Spirit That Can See Into Her Family’s Past
In her debut novel, “Things They Lost,” Okwiri Oduor uses magical realism to explore toxic mother-daughter relationships.
Sadeq Hedayat, Iran’s Misunderstood Literary Modernist
“Blind Owl,” by Sadeq Hedayat, is a hallucinatory short novel that upends Persian artistic traditions.
Delia Ephron’s Memoir Could Be Called ‘Love, Loss and Love Again’
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.
Review: “Let There Be Light,” by Liana Finck
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.
Misty Copeland on ‘Serenade,’ Democracy and the Art of Movement
The ballet dancer reviews Toni Bentley’s sixth book: part memoir, part ode to George Balanchine and the art form he immortalized.
Fiction About Lives in Ukraine
The critic Jennifer Wilson discusses new books by Yevgenia Belorusets and Andrey Kurkov, and Ben McGrath talks about “Riverman.”
They Were College Friends. Now They’re Art Thieves.
Grace D. Li’s debut, “Portrait of a Thief,” is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down
Michelle de Kretser’s two-part novel, “Scary Monsters,” follows a young teacher in 1980s France and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Australia.
New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness
Simon Heffer’s “High Minds” traces the impact of reformers on industrial Britain, and the beginnings of the welfare state.
Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’
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.
Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller
“My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
U.T. Austin Acquires Archives That Give Insight Into the 1960s
The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in American history.
What Can We Learn From Celebrity Couples of Yore?
In his new book, “Truly, Madly,” Stephen Galloway looks at the tumultuous, star-crossed marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
Book Review: ‘The Candy House,’ by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan’s ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.
Newly Published, from a Suburban Search to a Seoul Flower Shop
A selection of books published this week.
A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope
In his follow-up to “Shuggie Bain,” Douglas Stuart tells a story of love blossoming in a barren emotional landscape.
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