Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The Absolute Book,” by Elizabeth Knox, takes on a number of genres, while “Winter’s Orbit,” by Everina Maxwell, stays true to one.
New in Paperback: ‘Supreme Inequality’ and ‘Little Gods’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Cartoons, JFK’s Victory and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Closed: Lincoln's Birthday
All branches of the Atlantic County Library System will be closed for Lincoln's Birthday Day.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'My Year Abroad' Is A Fun Excursion — Just A Little Light On Substance
Chang-rae Lee's new novel follows an aimless college student on his year overseas, taking readers from the New Jersey suburbs into some of the more luxurious reaches of Asian megacities.
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Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again
“I’ve read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times — everything they have written. Over and over, and yet I continue to discover something new.”
How Do We Regain Trust in Institutions?
In “Mistrust,” Ethan Zuckerman looks at the forces in American society trying to work around eroding systems, and those trying to build them back up.
Books Are Back in the White House — And One of Them Is by Angie Thomas
The best-selling author just found out that her debut novel is soon to be on the first lady’s bedside table.
Joan Didion's 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean' Offers Plenty Of 'Journalistic Gold'
What's particularly salient in this book of previously uncollected essays is Didion's trademark farsightedness — especially striking decades later. But it does leave one wishing to hear from her now.
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A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’
In “Nicky & Vera,” Peter Sís tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia as World War II loomed.
Does It Make Sense to Call Anyone ‘Normal’?
In “Nobody’s Normal,” Roy Richard Grinker describes a centuries-old quest to define normalcy — and the enduring stigma that came from it.
What Really Happens Inside a Crime Lab?
In “Blood, Powder, and Residue,” Beth A. Bechky offers an ethnography of the world of criminalists, who sort through the evidence from crime scenes.
Charles Blow's 'The Devil You Know' Is A Black Power Manifesto For Our Time
Blow's book is a call to action for Black Americans to reconsider their Great Migration North and imagine new possibilities of Black political might.
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P.O.V.: You’re Geppetto, Missing Your Wooden Son From Inside the Belly of a Fish
Edward Carey’s “The Swallowed Man” revisits the 19th-century Italian classic from the father’s perspective.
‘Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,’ by Maurice Chammah: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” by Maurice Chammah
‘No Heaven for Good Boys,’ by Keisha Bush: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “No Heaven for Good Boys,” by Keisha Bush
Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017?
“Extraterrestrial,” by the Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, makes the case for intelligent life in outer space — and for evidence that it may have visited us not long ago.
Book Review: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ by Maurice Chammah
“Let the Lord Sort Them,” by Maurice Chammah, relates the history of capital punishment in America, and why it is on its way out.
How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt)
“The Price You Pay for College,” by Ron Lieber, is a comprehensive guide to navigating an often treacherous process.
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