Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas
These novels, about an aspiring scholar in Italy and a young poet returning to his roots in Afghanistan, chart unsettled paths to adulthood.
By the Book: Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book
The fashion designer and author of the new memoir “I.M.” likes his literature “sort of plain”: “Style is suspicious to me in general. I think that’s true about my taste in everything. Food. Décor. Clothes.”
Fiction: In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear
Sharma Shields’s new novel, “The Cassandra,” brings an archetypal Greek seer into the age of modern warfare.
Fiction: A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work
In “Leading Men,” Christopher Castellani takes Tennessee Williams and his lover, Frank Merlo, back to an invented interlude in Portofino.
On Poetry: What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
A new collection of the writer’s prose and poems, “On Drinking,” makes clear how evasive he was even in his most seemingly honest work. Can Bukowski’s view of addiction survive a new era?
Fiction: In a Gutsy New Thriller, a Black Female Spy’s Past Comes Back to Haunt Her
“American Spy,” Lauren Wilkinson’s assured debut novel, explores the career and moral quandaries of a black woman who’s undervalued in the boy’s club of the F.B.I.
Nonfiction: Sex and the Cinema: How Hollywood Shaped Desire
In “Sleeping With Strangers,” David Thomson examines the ways in which movies have codified our fantasies.
Nonfiction: The Life-or-Death Struggle of Refugees Braving the Mediterranean Crossing
In “Notes on a Shipwreck,” the Italian journalist Davide Enia bears witness to the suffering of migrants fleeing Africa for the island of Lampedusa.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets
Elinor Lipman’s “Good Riddance” offers an up-to-the-minute look at a young woman’s life in Manhattan.
Nonfiction: The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation
“Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation,” by Steve Luxenberg, is an elegant history of the mostly losing battle to protect the civil rights of newly freed black citizens.
Nonfiction: The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times
Two new books, “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox, explore the benefits of tuning out.
The Week in Books
A novel about the George W. Bush administration, Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive,” a sneak peek at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming novel and more.
The Book Review Podcast: A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’
Benjamin Dreyer talks about his best-selling guide to writing, and Thomas Mallon discusses “Landfall,” his new novel about the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
Read Books by Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and Other 2020 Presidential Candidates
Politicians’ memoirs can give insight into their values.
Inside the List: ‘The Unwinding of the Miracle’ Is About How to Die — and Live
Julie Yip-Williams, diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at 37, couldn’t find a book that would help her prepare for death. So she decided to write one herself.
New in Paperback: ‘Directorate S,’ ‘The Friend’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Sketchbook: The Future of Publishing, as Imagined by R.O. Blechman
An illustrated prediction of the book world’s next big frontier.
Children’s Books: New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter
A shape-shifting fox in space, a sentient island, an eerily perfect town and twins who use magic to stay together: There’s abundant life in this speculative fiction.
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