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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.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Gerald Marzorati’s “Seeing Serena” follows her across the globe over the course of one year.
The podcast host and debut author tells a difficult story in her best-selling memoir, “Somebody’s Daughter.” But there are glimmers of brightness.
In Cynthia Leitich Smith’s “Sisters of the Neversea,” the Darlings have been transported to Tulsa, Okla., and Lily is Wendy’s Native stepsister.
Pamela Erens, acclaimed for her adult novels, has made a natural and satisfying shift to middle grade fiction with “Matasha.”
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
And whom would you trust along the way? These questions are the foundation of Caitlin Wahrer’s suspense novel, “The Damage.”
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