Three New Books That Stare Up at the Stars
From the secret lives of planets to the mysteries contained in meteors, a look at books that explore the vast and fascinating cosmos.
Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family
“The Thirty Names of Night,” “You Exist Too Much” and “A Country for Dying” feature characters who leave home and long for new identities.
Studies of Darkness and Disguise at the Movies
In Ed Park’s Graphic Content column, he looks at two new graphic novels: Katriona Chapman’s “Breakwater” and Pat Dorian’s “Lon Chaney Speaks.”
In a Gentrifying Seattle, a Queer Activist Works to Blur Borders
“The Freezer Door,” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, reflects on the boundaries of gender and queerness, and the frustrating limitations of language.
The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty
“The Last American Aristocrat,” by David S. Brown, relates the incident-filled life of Henry Adams, the Gilded Age intellectual and historian who witnessed much of the 19th century from his privileged perch.
New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Eavan Boland to the African-American Canon
A selection of recent poetry titles; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War
In “A Question of Freedom,” the historian William G. Thomas III writes about families who pursued more than a thousand freedom suits, a number of them successful.
A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd
Guillermo Stitch’s novel “Lake of Urine” is full of bristly characters and bizarre incidents.
The 10 Best Books of 2020
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
An Eco-Fable From the Author of ‘The Magicians’
In Lev Grossman’s first middle grade novel, “The Silver Arrow,” a magic steam train ride with talking animals gives a young girl a sense of purpose.
What if Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor Had Joined Forces?
In “Alice’s Farm,” a brave cottontail and her brother secretly help a city family succeed at farming to save their bunny habitat from developers.
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.
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