New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Love By The Letters In 'How To Speak Boy'
Fans of You've Got Mail will find a lot to love in Tiana Smith's tale of a high-achieving high-schooler who gets distracted by a correspondence with another student whose identity is a mystery.
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To Stand Still Is To Die: A New Novel Follows Migrants To 'American Dirt'
Jeanine Cummins' new novel opens in Mexico, where a drug cartel has massacred 16 members of a family. A tense on-the-road ordeal follows, as a desperate mother struggles to save herself and her son.
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The Heart-Stopping, Nerve-Shredding Race to Be America’s Deadliest Combat Pilot
“Race of Aces,” John Bruning’s action-fueled World War II narrative, follows the elite fighter pilots who competed to shoot down the most enemy planes.
Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books
What could possibly make this generation of image-bombarded, constantly visually stimulated kids choose books more often? One answer lies in graphic novels.
The Union of the Kushners and the Trumps Seems Like Kismet
A new book considers the merging of real estate dynasties and its lasting impact on American democracy.
'Tightrope' Implores America To Make Changes To Save Itself
A new book by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is an agonizing account of how apathy and cruelty have turned America into a nightmare for many less fortunate citizens. But it is not without hope.
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‘Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick,’ by Zora Neale Hurston: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick,” by Zora Neale Hurston
‘American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power,’ by Andrea Bernstein: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power,” by Andrea Bernstein
Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature
The narrator of Jonathan Buckley’s novel “The Great Concert of the Night” uses a journal to keep alive memories of the enigmatic actress he loved.
An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters
In “The Secret Guests,” Benjamin Black imagines what might have happened had the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret been sent abroad during the Blitz.
Soon a Robot Will Be Writing This Headline
In “A World Without Work,” the economist Daniel Susskind argues that, unlike during past technological shifts, machines really are becoming smart enough to take over our jobs.
Reckoning With the Wounds Still Left by the Spanish Civil War
In his “nonfiction” novel “Lord of All the Dead,” Javier Cercas unearths the conflicted story of a relative who died serving in Franco’s army.
Down and Out and Ripe for an Economist to Study
For his new book, “Extreme Economies,” Richard Davies visited nine struggling places — from a Louisiana prison to the Panamanian rain forest — to glean economic lessons for all of us.
The Harlem Renaissance, as Viewed by Zora Neale Hurston
“Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick” collects 21 stories from throughout her career, including eight that illuminate the Great Migration north.
For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing?
In Meng Jin’s debut novel, “Little Gods,” a teenage immigrant excavates her late mother’s long-buried truths.
A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies
In Scarlett Thomas’s new novel, “Oligarchy,” the skinny girls rule the roost.
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell: The Odd Couple
James Mann’s “The Great Rift” describes the up-and-down relationship of two men who shaped American foreign policy for a generation.
The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous
In “Imperfect Union,” his double biography of John and Jessie Frémont, the NPR host Steve Inskeep brings to life a 19th-century power couple.
Wealth and Fraud in 1920s Florida
Christopher Knowlton’s “Bubble in the Sun” tells a story of quick fortunes made and lost in Florida real estate.
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