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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.
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.
In his new book, “Truly, Madly,” Stephen Galloway looks at the tumultuous, star-crossed marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
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.
A selection of books published this week.
In his follow-up to “Shuggie Bain,” Douglas Stuart tells a story of love blossoming in a barren emotional landscape.
Some advice — helpful and otherwise — on the literary life, from living authors and Aristotle.
Jack Lowery’s “It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful” tells the story of the art collectives whose work became the iconography of a movement.
Edmund Richardson’s latest book revisits the tale of Charles Masson, a runaway British soldier who reinvented himself as an archaeologist and a spy.
Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order” traces the political shifts that have characterized modern American history.
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