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The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.
In “Songbooks,” the scholar and critic Eric Weisbard surveys music writing from the 1700s to today, with special attention to voices on the margins.
An excerpt from “Filthy Animals: Stories,” by Brandon Taylor
Her books depicted a cozy Jewish family on the Lower East Side. In real life, her back story was more complicated.
Liang Hong’s “China in One Village” recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.
Elias Rodriques’s debut novel, “All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running,” follows a young man searching for answers after the death of his high school flame.
A selection of recent poetry titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Folklore informs Mariana Leky’s novel “What You Can See From Here,” which follows a motley cast of townspeople faced with a crisis.
This young adult version of a Spanish folk tale redefines what picture books can be. Reader discretion is advised.
In “Shape,” Jordan Ellenberg argues for the importance of geometry as the underlying structure of reality.
The first story collection from the author of “Real Life” features unspoken desires bubbling up when least appropriate.
In “Drunk,” Edward Slingerland plays devil’s advocate for the pleasure and utility of Dionysian abandon.
Packer talks about “Last Best Hope,” and Suzanne Simard discusses “Finding the Mother Tree.”
In his new novel, “The Netanyahus,” Joshua Cohen imagines a visit by the scholar Benzion Netanyahu to an Ivy League school in the late 1950s.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
“I strongly endorse the idea of going beyond the verbal art forms traditionally marked as ‘literature,’ but everybody already knows about Bob Dylan. They should have given it to Lynda Barry.”
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at a compilation of Black cartoonists and a history of female slave rebellions.
Sandeep Jauhar offers a tour of books about Alzheimer’s, from the search for a cure to fictionalized accounts of living with this scourge.
The author, 98, wrote one of the classic novels of Depression-era Black life, “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” and its themes still resonate today.
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