9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Interview: By the Book With Emily Henry, Whose ‘Funny Story’ Comes Out This Month
“I don’t want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long,” says the best-selling novelist. “Funny Story,” about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.
Behind Each of Mary Kubica’s Novels Is a Bevy of Feisty Felines
The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.
Marjane Satrapi on Resistance in Iran: ‘A Real Revolution Is Cultural’
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.
Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry Review: ‘The Sorrow Apartments,’ by Andrea Cohen
In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.
Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89
In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
Keith Haring’s Legacy Is at the Mall, Not the Museum
Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public art is most powerfully preserved on the street.
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Shopaholic’ Author,’ Says She Has Brain Cancer
The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.
Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.
Book Review: ‘In the Shadow of Liberty,’ by Ana Raquel Minian
“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.
Read Your Way Through Accra
Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
A Tale of Four Troubled and Talented Sisters, Told With Irish Flair
There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
Book Review: ‘Crooked Seeds,’ by Karen Jennings
“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
Book Review: ‘Negative Space,’ by Gillian Linden
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
These Gay Novels Offer a ‘More Interesting Conversation’ About Faith
Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.
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