From Our Archives: Edward Gorey’s Children’s Books Illustrations, Revisited
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Edward Gorey’s children’s books illustrations.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Now Read This: Discussion Questions for ‘Heart: A History’
Sandeep Jauhar’s exploration of our most vital organ and favored metaphor is our January pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Iris Murdoch
In my “Read this” and “I have a book for you” family, no one had ever mentioned Murdoch. Her novels weren’t part of our approved canon. And yet I adored her.
Fiction: The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The stories in “At the End of the Century” — all character studies — have an addictive, told-over-tea quality.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Chigozie Obioma: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “An Orchestra of Minorities” is “hardly turned off by considerations of genre. … I have found even manuals — of how to hunt wild birds in West Africa — fascinating.”
Poetry: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches
When he died in 2016, the singer left behind hundreds of notebooks that have yielded material for a new miscellany, “The Flame.”
Nonfiction: How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War
“The War Before the War,” by the literary critic Andrew Delbanco, is a forceful and eloquent case for the role of fugitives in fomenting a national crisis.
The Shortlist: Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage
In culinary essays, Dawn Drzal, Christine S. O’Brien and Ann Hood embark on personal journeys in which meals reveal much more than what’s on the menu.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong
Book publishing is big on TV and in the movies. The essayist Sloane Crosley, a former book publicist, fact-checks the shows.
Nonfiction: A Book That Will Make You Terrified of Your Own House
Rob Dunn’s “Never Home Alone” catalogs the world of microbial beings that share our living space and inhabit our showerheads and pillowcases.
Nonfiction: Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey
In “Born to Be Posthumous,” Mark Dery probes the “eccentric life” and “mysterious genius” of the illustrator whose books have proved fiendishly irresistible.
The Book Review Podcast: Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction
Yascha Mounk discusses Edward J. Watts’s “Mortal Republic,” and Jonathan Lethem talks about the surge of fictional psychotropic drugs in novels.
Inside the List: What the Authors of Our 10 Best Books Read and Loved This Year
2018 was a good year for books. Some of the authors we admire weigh in on their favorite reads.
Notes from the Book Review Archive: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thought Sherlock Holmes Was ‘a Lower Stratum of Literary Achievement’
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: J. Donald Abrams on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
New in Paperback: ‘The Cooking Gene,’ ‘The Music Shop’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: A Real-Life Murder, Committed in the Name of Islamic Extremism, Inspires a Debut Novel
Guy Gunaratne’s “In Our Mad and Furious City” interweaves five urban lives against a backdrop of racial and political violence.
The Literati: The Spiritual Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
The creator of Sherlock Holmes harbored a deep-seated belief in mysticism, telepathy, fairies and ghosts.
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