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We asked creatures from around the ecosystem to tell us what they’re reading.
With “Woman of the Ashes,” the first novel of a trilogy, Mia Couto conjures his country’s colonial past with sensitivity and imagination.
Six friends pair off, split up and regroup in “Companions,” a light-footed novel by the Danish writer Christina Hesselholdt.
The narrator of Negar Djavadi’s novel, “Disoriental,” banished from her Iranian homeland, builds a life in France by recalling her family’s stories.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient.”
“Edge of Chaos” outlines the failures of democratic capitalism and what can be done about them.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The novelist Lydia Millet, whose new story collection is “Fight No More,” was impressed as a teenager by the Marquis de Sade. “Now he’s more boring, but we all fall prey to nostalgia.”
A new book by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge, “Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data,” explores how data-rich markets are changing societies for better and worse.
In Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Warlight,” a London family is fractured by Allied intelligence work. And the danger won’t end when the fighting is over.
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan’s “The China Mission” details the hopeless effort of trying to reconcile the Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists.
With “Kudos,” Cusk brings her spare, beautiful trilogy to a close.
Max in “Where the Wild Things Are” was tame, compared with the unchecked emotions on display in these books.
Stuart Eizenstat thinks so, and he lays out his argument in this admiring but frank appraisal, “President Carter: The White House Years.”
Ken Auletta’s “Frenemies” describes the new landscape for advertising and marketing, both competing with and dependent on Silicon Valley.
The former president and the best-selling novelist have packed “The President Is Missing” with inside-the-Beltway intrigue and secret White House details.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Ben Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,” recounts some of the toughest decisions Obama made during his time as president.
These stories are sure to activate the literary lives of even the most book-averse members of your family.
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