10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jacob Soboroff Saw Kids in Cages. Then He Started Talking — and Writing.
In his new best seller about the practice of family separation, the NBC News correspondent does not mince words.
An Elegant, Ice-Cold Thriller Served Straight Up With a Twist
In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?
The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud
“Especially the most amazingly weird and right sentence with ‘lasagna’ in it.”
‘The Pull of the Stars,’ by Emma Donoghue: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
‘The Unidentified,’ by Colin Dickey: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Unidentified,” by Colin Dickey
Where Evil Lurks
The latest crop of horror fiction includes “Malorie” — Josh Malerman’s sequel to “Bird Box” — as well as “Mexican Gothic,” “Wonderland” and more.
A Woman Who Resisted the Japanese Military
Robert J. Mrazek’s “The Indomitable Florence Finch” is the story of a Filipino woman who saved American lives, survived torture and lived to be 101.
The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak
In “How You Say It,” Katherine Kinzler focuses on linguistic discrimination, how your accent can determine the way you are perceived.
Two Syrian Brothers, One Longing to Stay, the Other Determined to Leave
“The Road From Raqqa,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, retraces the divergent paths of two siblings through Syria’s civil war.
Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out
“Baseless,” the novelist’s new work of nonfiction, is the record of a frustrated investigation and an indictment of government secrecy.
New & Noteworthy, From Free Speech to True Crime
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War
In “The Beauty of Living,” the scholar J. Alison Rosenblitt delves into E.E. Cummings’s formative experiences as an ambulance driver and prisoner during World War I.
Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky
In “The Unidentified,” Colin Dickey looks at phenomena that science seems unable to explain, and at the cults that have developed around them.
The Consolations of Jane Austen
Through the trials of new motherhood and the loss of a parent, Rachel Cohen read the English novelist exclusively. “Austen Years” is her memoir of the experience.
Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars
In “Waiting for an Echo,” Christine Montross, a psychiatrist who works in prisons, catalogs the devastating effects of incarceration on the mentally ill.
Why Is Women’s Work Still Undervalued and Unacknowledged?
In “The Double X Economy,” Linda Scott sums up years of research on the vast shadow economy of female workers and ways to change it.
An Unidentifiable Stranger Plunges a Community Into Crisis in ‘Pew’
The new novel by Catherine Lacey features a narrator of no discernible gender, race or past and a Christian town whose tolerant posture is sorely tested.
Don’t Believe History Repeats Itself? Read This Book
Emma Donoghue’s “The Pull of the Stars” takes readers inside an ill-equipped Dublin hospital during a viral pandemic — in 1918.
Oliver Stone’s Reel History
In “Chasing the Light,” the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter has finally found a historical figure he can portray with all the bias he desires: himself.
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