Joy Williams and Her Unique Views of America
A.O. Scott talks about Williams’s fiction, and Nicholas Christakis discusses his new book about the coronavirus, “Apollo’s Arrow.”
New in Paperback: ‘The Grammarians’ and ‘Edison’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
England’s Greatest Novelist and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Lifelong Rock Critic Goes Back to the Actual Classics
In “A Sound Mind,” the British journalist Paul Morley discovers the wonders of classical music.
The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish
“Wild landscapes, weird nature, science fiction — this really should be my jam. But no.”
Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone
The creator of Humans of New York went global in his new best seller. Now that we have to stay local, his perspective is more galvanizing than ever.
The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction
In the third installment of “The Americans,” his series on overlooked or under-read writers, A.O. Scott considers the idiosyncratic originality of an author whose influences extend from Hawthorne to Carver but whose imagination is wholly her own.
How Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ Came to Exist
Patton Oswalt reviews “Alright, Alright, Alright,” an oral history by Melissa Maerz.
Characters Protesting the Times, When the Real Problem Is Time Itself
In Charles Baxter’s new novel, “The Sun Collective,” an aging couple‘s search for their missing son leads them to a quasi-anarchist group.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Rebel Girls to Rachel Bloom
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets
Simon Han’s “Nights When Nothing Happened” exposes the tedium and tension of life as a foreigner in America.
Book Review: ‘V2,’ by Robert Harris
“V2,” Robert Harris’s new World War II novel, follows a German engineer of the feared rockets and a British woman sent to stop them.
‘Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,’ by Lauren Redniss: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,” by Lauren Redniss
‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,’ by Declan Walsh: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,” by Declan Walsh
Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times,” “The Age of Skin,” “Mobile Home” and “The Best of Brevity” break down a complicated world.
Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic
Three new books on race and relationships explore how white attitudes about sex and emotions have shaped our history.
In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family
In Alecia McKenzie’s new novel, “A Million Aunties,” a Black painter seeks solace from personal tragedy in the arms of his Jamaican community.
Book Review: ‘Oak Flat,’ by Lauren Redniss
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe’s sacred land.
Book Review: ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan,’ by Declan Walsh
In “The Nine Lives of Pakistan,” Declan Walsh, a foreign correspondent for The Times, profiles some of the country’s powerful and contentious figures and investigates why his work eventually got him kicked out.
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