Sketchbook | Literary Resolutions: Book Ambition
A graphic pep talk for the literary year ahead.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir
In “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her remarkable journey from a remote mountainside in Idaho to Cambridge University.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Joseph Wood Krutch and the future’s inevitability.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Shortlist: Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen
Four memoirs by doctors who explore the line that divides their identities as healers from that of fellow human beings.
Nonfiction: When Growing Old Is a Blessing
John Leland’s book “Happiness Is a Choice You Make” chronicles the unlikely virtues of aging.
Children’s Books: New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts
In books by Dhonielle Clayton, Tomi Adeyemi and others, teenagers from around the globe are inventive, romantic and above all empowered.
Fiction: Young and Adrift in New York City
Hermione Hoby’s first novel, “Neon in Daylight,” offers a fresh take on the romance of urban life.
Nonfiction: Getting Better All the Time?
In “It’s Better Than It Looks,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the case for optimism in a time of troubles.
Crime: Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries
Crime novels by Jane Harper, Robin Oliveira, Christobel Kent and Steve Cavanagh probe the fate of women and girls: some just gone, some gone for good.
Nonfiction: Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full
In “Enlightenment Now,” the Harvard professor offers much evidence that the world, our feelings notwithstanding, is definitely getting better.
Fiction: A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse
“The Invention of Ana,” a novel by Mikkel Rosengaard, hinges on an ambiguous mentorship and the history of the Romanian revolution.
Nonfiction: She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D.
In her memoir, “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her extraordinary journey from her survivalist family in Idaho to the lecture halls of the Ivy League.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Siblings On A Strange Journey In 'Monster Portraits'
Sofia Samatar teams up with her brother Del, a tattoo artist, to create a new take on the fantastic bestiary. The result is a prose poem with jolts of autobiography, spiced with intricate drawings.
(Image credit: Rose Metal Press)
Nonfiction: The Battle Over What It Means to Be American
In “Political Tribes,” Amy Chua assesses the growing trend toward zero-sum group competition.
By the Book: Ian Buruma: By the Book
Ian Buruma, whose new book is the memoir “A Tokyo Romance,” prefers villains to heroes: “It is hard to write about a good person without making him or her look like a bore.”
#9: Coat of Many Colors
Coat of Many Colors
Dolly Parton (Author), Brooke Boynton Hughes (Illustrator)
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Dolly Parton (Author), Brooke Boynton Hughes (Illustrator)
(75)
Buy new: $17.99 $14.02
79 used & new from $10.95
(Visit the Best Sellers in Books list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)
2 Decades In The Making, 'Green Sun' Is Worth The Wait
Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's Night Dogs, and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland — bad attitude entirely intact.
(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)
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