11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists
“I love Dickens and Twain above all.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Veteran Authors and Mistletoe Descend on the Best-Seller List
But where are the menorahs and Kwanzaa candles?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Shifting Styles and Blue Moods in the Pages of a Graphic Novel
Ed Park’s latest Graphic Content column looks at new work from Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing
Peter Robison’s “Flying Blind” tells the full story of two air disasters and Boeing’s role in the crashes.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm?
In “Looking for the Good War,” the West Point scholar Elizabeth D. Samet argues that an idealized narrative of America’s actions in World War II has colored our beliefs about warfare in detrimental ways.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe
Alex Danchev’s biography of René Magritte portrays a subversive artist who had no interest in bohemian life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Stories Anchored in Place, From Japan to the U.S.-Mexican Border
New collections by Hiromi Kawakami, Wendy J. Fox and Blake Sanz.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited
Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Earthquake Has Broken Tehran, but She’s Looking for a Different Fix
“In Case of Emergency,” a novel by Mahsa Mohebali, offers an antic portrait of a mind on edge in contemporary Iran.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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