8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
Book Review: ‘Care and Feeding,’ by Laurie Woolever; ‘Cellar Rat,’ by Hannah Selinger
New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.
Interview: Tori Amos on Her Children’s Book and Her Reading Life
His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now childrens’ book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.
Book Review: ‘Hypochondria,’ by Will Rees
What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.
Chris Moore, Illustrator for Classic Sci-Fi Books, Dies at 77
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
New Novels to Read This Spring
Watch for a new “Hunger Games” prequel; a quirky romance from Emily Henry; novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ocean Vuong; and more.
New Nonfiction to Read This Spring
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.
Book Review: ‘The Antidote,’ by Karen Russell
Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.
Book Review: ‘Brother Brontë,’ by Mark Leyner
Fernando A. Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast.
Book Review: ‘The Next One Is for You,’ by Ali Watkins
“The Next One Is for You” chronicles the effects of the Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Book Review: ‘On Air,’ by Steve Oney
A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.
Book Review: ‘The Human Scale,’ by Lawrence Wright
In Lawrence Wright’s new thriller, an Arab American F.B.I. agent and an Israeli cop take on an intractable conflict.
Book Review: ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ by Alissa Wilkinson
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood.
Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
A Melancholy Yiddish Classic That Also Happens to Be Hilarious
“Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time.
Book Review: ‘The Man Nobody Killed,’ by Elon Green
Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.
Keeping Up With Highbrow Art While Raising a Child
It’s not easy, but here’s how Mark Krotov, the publisher of the literary magazine n+1, attempts it, often with his 6-year-old daughter along for the ride.
Geoff Nicholson, Author of Darkly Comic Novels, Dies at 71
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles.
Merle Oberon, a Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work.
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