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On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
The list includes a mix of books written originally in Spanish and in translation.
An excerpt from “The Cartiers: The Untold Story Behind the Jewelry Empire,” by Francesca Cartier Brickell
An excerpt from “Tiny Love: The Complete Stories,” by Larry Brown
“Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown” collects tales of hardscrabble lives, as captured by the Mississippi writer who died in 2004, at the age of 53.
Holly George-Warren’s “Janis: Her Life and Music” shows us the person behind the pop idol.
Thomas Lynch’s new essay collection, “The Depositions,” should be required reading for anyone who is going to die someday.
Francesca Cartier Brickell gives jewelry enthusiasts a peek into her family’s diamond-encrusted past.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “Disney’s Land,” Richard Snow explains how Walt Disney turned 240 acres of orange groves into the iconic California theme park.
Sometimes we read for escape. Sometimes we read to be reminded of the obvious: Things could be worse.
François Lebeau’s “Climbing Rock” and Christian Vizl’s “Silent Kingdom” reveal the sublime edges of the earth.
Charles Moore discusses the final volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, and Adrienne Brodeur talks about her memoir, “Wild Game.”
New books from Isabelle Arsenault, Grant Snider and more speak to children’s curiosity about everything from the color of nighttime to difficult stuff in the news.
‘The War of the Worlds’ has been a novel and a radio broadcast. Now, an artist reimagines H.G. Wells’s extraterrestrial tale in graphic form.
Contemporary recordings breathe new life into such books as “To the Lighthouse,” “Jane Eyre” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
New graphic biographies of the novelist and the Supreme Court justice show the determined paths they followed, from quietly rebellious girlhoods to full-on iconhood.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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