Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past
In “Four Lost Cities,” Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay.
To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City
Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, “Love and Other Poems,” delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O’Hara’s work.
Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime
“I don’t remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep.”
This Indigenous Author and Artist Team Have an Important Message
Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade collaborated on “We Are Water Protectors.” The rest is history.
In ‘Summer Brother,’ Sibling Bonding During a Season of Turmoil
In Jaap Robben’s “Summer Brother,” a 13-year-old finds himself the default caregiver for his severely disabled brother. His dad’s a swindler. The bills are due. Disaster is inevitable.
He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway.
“Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us,” by Joseph Andras, revisits a thorny episode in the Algerian war of independence.
It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It
The playwright David Ives reviews Hermione Lee’s latest biography, “Tom Stoppard,” which meticulously recounts an extraordinary life.
A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro
“Klara and the Sun,” the eighth novel by the Nobel laureate, portrays a near future of sinister portent, in which artificial intelligence has encroached on every sphere of human existence.
Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling?
In “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers,” Matthew Gavin Frank details the surprising role pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.
Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact?
In her new novel, “The Smash-Up,” Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
‘The Smash-Up,’ by Ali Benjamin: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Smash-Up,” by Ali Benjamin
The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work
“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore) to examine a complicated culture.
The Life of a Soldier
New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.
They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.
“Raceless,” by Georgina Lawton, and “Surviving The White Gaze,” by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated from their heritage.
A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed
The protagonist of Jack Livings’s novel, “The Blizzard Party,” recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her family forever.
True Crime Gets Its Close-Up
In “Two Truths and a Lie,” “Confident Women” and “The Officer’s Daughter,” readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.
Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother
“The Bone Fire,” by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows a 13-year-old girl as she navigates political upheaval and an uncanny world.
New & Noteworthy, From Isabel Allende to Robert Walser
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival
Tanya Selvaratnam and Vanessa Springora both survived powerful, manipulative men. Now they’re telling their tales.
Chasing Down a Deadbeat Dad, With a Knife Strapped to Her Leg
“The Slaughterman’s Daughter,” by Yaniv Iczkovits, is a sprawling 19th-century quest narrative set in czarist Russia.
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