Katie Kitamura Talks About ‘Intimacies’
Kitamura discusses her new novel, and James Lapine talks about “Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created ‘Sunday in the Park With George.’”
‘One of You Is a Monster’
In her latest column, Sarah Weinman explores four new novels, each dark in a different way.
The Lifesaving Power of Storytelling
In Donna Barba Higuera’s dystopian novel, “The Last Cuentista,” folk tales are a girl’s only hope of leading her brainwashed shipmates out of darkness.
A Chinese American Girl Learns That Her Name Contains Multitudes
Meilan, the protagonist of Andrea Wang’s debut middle grade novel, is really many Meilans — each inspired by a different Chinese character that sounds like her name.
The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More
“Bleak, modernist stuff! And yet revisiting that litany of betrayals and cruelties never fails to stir my spirits.”
A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation
The narrator of Ashley Nelson Levy’s debut novel, “Immediate Family,” grapples with infertility and with a brother who’s never quite fit in.
In Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play?
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut, “Radiant Fugitives,” sets an intimate family story against the Obama-era backdrop it can’t escape.
New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Appalachian Trail, the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The American Resistance Leader Executed on Hitler’s Orders
In the 1930s, Rebecca Donner’s great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack helped organize a clandestine circle of anti-Nazi resisters in Berlin. In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Donner tells Harnack’s story.
From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California
The author set many of the stories in his posthumously published debut, “Afterparties,” in and around his native Stockton.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A ‘Quiet Zone’ Without Wi-Fi or Cellphones Should Be an Idyll. But Is It?
In his new book, Stephen Kurczy ventures to a town in West Virginia that is ostensibly off the electronic grid and he finds a more complicated reality.
Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'
Maryse Condé's new novel follws a lonely man, an obstetrician who adopts an orphaned baby girl and tries to find her family — it's an examination of loss and grief on a personal and national level.
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Farmer Offers Stark Time-Lapse Portrait Of His Family's Land Over A Lifetime
James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity's future.
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A Memoir of Pretending to See
In “Blind Man’s Bluff,” James Tate Hill opens up about the measures he took to avoid admitting that he had lost his eyesight.
If You Name Your Book ‘Not a Happy Family,’ People Will Buy It
Shari Lapena’s latest thriller is on the hardcover fiction list, kids are in Halloween mode and other news from the world of best-sellerdom.
Oprah Picked It, So Did Obama — Why This Novel Is THE Summer Book
Nathan Harris's debut, set in a small Southern town just after Appomattox, has captured American readersthis summer by asking a question we haven't yet answered: How do you make peace after civil war?
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Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding
A selection of recently published books.
End of Summer Celebrations
Open to all Summer Reading Program participants. Registration required. Come to Gaskill Park and celebrate the end of our Summer Reading Program with fun games, snacks & prizes. Bring a towel; you might get wet! Please advise staff of any food allergies. Guardians must remain present. This is an outdoor event and is weather dependent. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation.
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