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Five new books for babies and newly independent readers illustrate the philosophical and the existential.
Readers respond to Don Winslow’s By the Book, Miranda Seymour’s review of Mary Thorp’s diary and more.
A.F. Harrold’s “The Song From Somewhere Else” and James Nicol’s “The Apprentice Witch” play with world-building for middle-grade readers.
Three new novels dealing with history and heroines.
In five companion novels that she called her “Austen entertainments,” Aiken gave second chapters to some of Austen’s most intriguing characters.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
N.K. Jemisin reviews new sci-fi and fantasy adventures by K.J Parker, Nicky Drayden, Brenda Cooper, and Steven R. Boyett and Ken Mitchroney.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Matthew Klam’s debut novel, “Who Is Rich?,” tells the tale of a conflicted adulterer.
“The Gargoyle Hunters” by John Freeman Gill is one of several new books featuring New York City as a backdrop.
Two books help explain the opiate abuse crisis and how we may resolve it, while a novel shows the havoc addiction can wreak.
What was death to the writer who never killed off a major character? In Austen’s six novels, mortality is a more subtle matter.
The author of “The Chalk Artist” admires Mary Garth in “Middlemarch”: “She is not only brave and witty, but totally sane. That’s hard to write. Madness is easy. A character with good sense is a tour de force.”
In these frisky new picture books, complex play with language sparks curiosity.
Robert Ferguson’s “Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North” offers an engaging, layered look into a complex culture.
The heroes of these Y.A. novels bust out and learn to love, in settings from New Jersey to Taiwan to Mars.
In “Jane Austen at Home,” the BBC presenter Lucy Worsley traces the writer’s life through the places and possessions that mattered most to her.
Asked once why he was so eternally curious, Thoreau said, “What else is there in life?” In “Henry David Thoreau: A Life,” Laura Dassow Walls explores his vision.
From the role-playing of modern Janeites to the theatrical performances that inspired Austen’s own work, three books explore her roots and her legacy.
Two paleontologists illuminate the real-life adventures of fossil hunting, while one book takes little ones on an adventure to an island where dinosaurs roam.
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