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“Serpentine” — which features, once again, the unquenchably curious Lyra — juxtaposes light and dark, innocence and experience.
In Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright’s graphic novel “Twins,” sisters navigate a sometimes cruel and changing world.
“Becoming Muhammad Ali,” by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander, is a poetic retelling of the legendary boxer’s youth.
In “Lupe Wong Won’t Dance,” a seventh-grade girl who dreams of becoming a major-league pitcher is horrified by a new unit in gym class: square dancing.
These new works from Tomi Ungerer, Sophie Blackall and Christian Robinson are realistic and — without being soppy — filled with hope.
Heat source or zombie blocker, imagining how books might serve us well in the apocalypse
Peter Guralnick talks about “Looking to Get Lost,” and Alex Ross discusses “Wagnerism.”
In “The Beforeland,” Corinna Vallianatos gives space and dignity to those plagued by their failures to launch.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Barack Obama’s memoir is landing. So is a biography of Adrienne Rich and buzzy fiction from Jo Nesbo, Nicole Krauss and Susie Yang.
‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ took 10 years to write. The fantasy author describes the process as a ‘very, very long labor of love.’
“Bookstores could easily have only two sections, ‘Riveting’ and ‘Kinda Boring.’”
Neal Gabler’s “Catching the Wind” makes clear that Ted Kennedy’s record in the Senate far outshone the legislative accomplishments of his brothers.
“Red Comet,” a mammoth new biography by Heather Clark, aims to rescue the poet from the clichés that have dominated her afterlife and secure her status as a major American writer.
A new Graphic Content column reviews three books that cover a gamut of world-building, from the lives of Syrian refugees to the friends of Pepe the Frog.
In “Culture Warlords,” Talia Lavin immerses herself among white supremacists and neo-Nazis, then tells us what she found.
In “Group,” Christie Tate walks readers through an unusual therapeutic journey.
In her memoir, “I’ll Be Seeing You,” Elizabeth Berg tells the story of her parents’ decline.
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