Ellen Oh’s New Middle Grade Novel Is Not a Fantasy
In “Finding Junie Kim,” a third-generation Korean-American girl gathers strength from her grandmother’s wartime tales to deal with anti-Asian racism.
An Office Rivalry Turns Strange — And Maybe Dangerous — In 'The Other Black Girl'
Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her own experiences in publishing for her new thriller, about a young Black woman who hopes for a friend and ally when her lily-white office hires another Black woman.
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Jack Ruby's Trial Moves From Side Stage To Center In 'Kennedy's Avenger'
Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell a gripping tale that takes readers into the heart of Ruby's trial, picking up the moment he killed Oswald and then methodically unpacking what followed.
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Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War
Lisa Taddeo’s first novel, “Animal,” tells a relentlessly bleak story of a woman warped by psychic wounds who pursues a life of emotional carnage.
Liz Hauck Promised a Warm Meal Every Week. Then She Delivered.
In “Home Made,” a writer looks back on the many dinners she cooked and ate with residents of a Boston home for adolescents.
New in Paperback: ‘Luster’ and ‘Sex and Vanity’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Yes, There Are Crimes — And Much More — In 'The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu'
Tom Lin's new novel promises — and delivers — lots of crimes in a cinematic Western starring a Chinese American gunslinger on a mission of revenge against the men who sent him to work the railroads.
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This Is Your Brain on Edward St. Aubyn
St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” examines a wide range of scientific thought, with detours into sex, drugs and venture capital.
‘Food Is Culture’: Alice Waters on the Cookbook That Changed Her Life
“All I wanted to do was live like the French.”
Want the Scoop on Writing and Publishing? Ask Emily Henry.
The best-selling author of “Beach Read” and “People We Meet on Vacation” is generous with her wisdom on Instagram.
New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip
From funny women to Yo-Yo Ma, self-reflection to civil rights, there’s something in the queue for everyone.
New Historical Fiction to Read This Summer
New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago.
'How The Word Is Passed' Teaches The Importance Of Reckoning With History
Clint Smith seeks out troubling history, including white supremacy, white violence — and the erasure of the oppression of Black Americans — to understand what America tells itself about who we are.
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This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood
Kyle Lukoff’s “Too Bright to See” relates a first-person story of transgender identity.
'The Kissing Bug' Challenges Which Diseases Matter — And Why
Through the story of her aunt, who died of Chagas, Daisy Hernández raises damning questions about which diseases get attention — and whom we believe to be deserving of care.
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In This Debut Novel, a Chinese-American Assassin Roams the West
“The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” by Tom Lin, is a vengeance quest in an unforgiving landscape during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Struggling Writers Steal Someone Else's Work In 2 New Suspense Novels
Chris Power's brooding literary novel A Lonely Man and Jean Hanff Korelitz's nightmare of a thriller The Plot explore the dangerous consequences of sticky fingers in the literary world.
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