New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip
From funny women to Yo-Yo Ma, self-reflection to civil rights, there’s something in the queue for everyone.
New Historical Fiction to Read This Summer
New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago.
This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood
Kyle Lukoff’s “Too Bright to See” relates a first-person story of transgender identity.
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese-American Assassin Roams the West
“The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” by Tom Lin, is a vengeance quest in an unforgiving landscape during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us
“A Ghost in the Throat,” by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem.
Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora
Reflections on the languages of migration, from Claudio Lomnitz, Michelle Zauner and Quiara Alegría Hudes.
New & Noteworthy, From Hidden Treasure to a Relic of Slavery
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tom Lin Makes His Debut With ‘The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu’
Tom Lin is making his debut with “The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” a novel that has drawn comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and “True Grit.”
How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past
In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage
In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.
In César Aira’s World, Life Is a Series of Chance Encounters
“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.
All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space
Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race for meteor deposits with extraordinary properties.
Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love
In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks
“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.
Kristen Arnett’s Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son
In “With Teeth,” two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
Ben Rhodes Takes a Gloomy Tour of the World
Rhodes’s “After the Fall” surveys the dangers America’s policies have helped create, and how those dangers are coming back to haunt us.
Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother
Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman.
As Venice Floods, a Lush, Malice-Infused Mystery Unfolds
In “Palace of the Drowned,” Christine Mangan explores the uneasy relationship between two women.
The Young Activist and the Atlanta Bar That Shaped Queer History
In “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,” Martin Padgett follows the L.G.B.T.Q. activist Bill Smith and the drag queen John Greenwell to chronicle 1970s queer history.
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