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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Book Review’s poetry columnist, Elisa Gabbert, picks her seven favorite collections of the year.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
“The People Remember” connects Black resilience in the face of generational trauma to the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The year’s most transporting novels have taken us to the past and around the globe.
Arthur Hailey and Joseph Last were in the top slots. Their subjects: cars and the Roosevelts.
“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it. I just typically can finish writing a single poem faster than I can an entire narrative book!”
In “A Natural History of the Future,” Rob Dunn turns to ecology as a way of figuring out just how the planet will be altered by climate change.
In “The Generation Myth,” Bobby Duffy deconstructs the stereotypes that have built up around millennials, boomers and other cohorts.
In “Women in the Picture,” the art historian Catherine McCormack traces classical female figures and their effects on Western culture.
From epic voyages to haunting folk tales, here are the highlights of an otherworldly year.
A selection of books published this week.
“Where You Come From,” by Sasa Stanisic, is an autobiographical novel about a life uprooted by war.
Our crime fiction columnist picks the books that wowed her this year.
“The Women I Love,” by Francesco Pacifico, finds a writer of bawdy satires in a more contemplative mood.
In “Learwife,” J.R. Thorp explores the untold story of Lear’s queen, a tale rife with cruelty, betrayal and passion.
“White on White,” by Aysegul Savas, is a study of interiority told through exchanges between a scholar and a painter.
They may be (relatively) low on body counts, but the year’s most chilling, atmospheric reads will still set your pulse racing and your heart pounding.
A selection of books published this week.
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