What Makes Elon Musk Different
Two new books, Eric Berger’s “Liftoff” and Tim Higgins’s “Power Play,” explore Musk’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial pursuits — and what has made him so successful.
A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets
Elisabeth Egan talks about Esther Freud’s “I Couldn’t Love You More,” and Philip D’Anieri discusses “The Appalachian Trail.”
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Dip into these picture books about pools and beaches, swimming and sailing, calm waters and stormy seas.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Promise and Tragedy of a Utopian Community, as Seen by One of Its Own
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.
Linda Dave Turned the Scorned Wife Into a ‘Hero’
In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.
Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book
Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places. It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.”
Readers Have Some Thoughts About Recent Reviews and Essays
Here’s a peek into the Book Review’s mailbag.
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In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
New & Noteworthy, From El Chapo to a Holocaust Survivor’s Art
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
‘Virtue,’ by Hermione Hoby: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Virtue,” by Hermione Hoby
‘What Strange Paradise,’ by Omar El Akkad: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “What Strange Paradise,” by Omar El Akkad
In These Debut Novels, Young Women Feel Oppressed by Womanhood
A trapped mom turns into an angry dog by night, an atheist lesbian poses as a Catholic receptionist, a 20-year-old woman suffers through domestic abuse.
Hermione Hoby Takes on Virtue-Signaling
In her new novel, “Virtue,” a white, liberal 20-something is torn between elitism and activism.
Book Review: ‘What Strange Paradise,’ by Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad’s new novel follows a young refugee who survives a shipwreck and the girl who comes to his aid.
Katie Kitamura Translates the Untranslatable
In “Intimacies,” a court interpreter at The Hague grapples with the ethics of the world around her.
A Writer’s Struggle, an Affair and a Pot of Cash Converge in a Novel
In Pedro Mairal’s “The Woman From Uruguay,” a plan to smuggle some money into Argentina goes disastrously awry.
A Fresh Look at the Family Who Led (and Lost) Britain’s War for America
“The Howe Dynasty,” by Julie Flavell, adds nuance and complexity to the story of a famous English military family by examining the extensive correspondence of one of its female members.
In ‘The Council of Animals,’ the Fate of Humanity Comes Down to a Vote
In Nick McDonell’s new novel, humans are almost extinct. Now the animal kingdom must decide their fate.
A Trek Across Florida, Braving Deadly Swamps and Bounty Hunters
In John Brandon’s new novel, “Ivory Shoals,” a boy in post-Civil War Florida searches for the father he has never met.
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