13 New Books We Recommend This Week
Reading picks from our staff critics and Book Review editors.
Michelle Obama Will Publish a New Book, ‘The Light We Carry,’ This Fall
In “The Light We Carry,” the former first lady will share her approaches to dealing with challenging times. Her 2018 memoir, “Becoming,” was one of the best-selling books of all time.
Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English
The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who love language.”
Gabrielle Zevin Is Not Going to Post This Article
The best-selling author of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” takes a measured approach to social media. Here’s why.
Review: ‘Dirt Creek,’ by Hayley Scrivenor and ‘Wake,’ by Shelley Burr
Two new novels, “Dirt Creek” and “Wake,” are set in remote towns hours from anywhere and on the road to nowhere.
Ruth Ware Won’t Read ‘Bleak House’ Until She Retires
“There’s a temptation to rush through the canon as young as possible,” says the thriller writer, whose new novel is “The It Girl,” “but you can only ever read a book for the first time once, and I like the idea of having that to look forward to.”
Review: ‘Fish Swimming in Dappled Water,’ by Riku Onda
Riku Onda’s “Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight,” set over a single night, explores the role a couple may have played in the death of their hiking guide.
HarperCollins Workers Strike For Increased Wages, Benefits and Diversity
The one-day action, unionized employees said, was intended to draw attention to core problems with the publishing industry.
Quidditch Becomes ‘Quadball,’ Leaving J.K. Rowling Behind
Citing trademark concerns and objections to the author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender issues, the sport’s leading groups officially distanced themselves from their “Harry Potter” roots.
New Thrillers
In Ruth Ware’s “It Girl,” a woman whose college roommate was murdered decides to reinvestigate the case.
Chance, Design and Inevitability in Three New Poetry Books
The Best Books to Take You Through Newfoundland
Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint.
Read Your Way Through Newfoundland
Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint.
In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery
George Dawes Green’s new novel hammers home the ugliness undergirding the city’s flowery, fashionable beauty.
Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job
She was the first Black woman in the position, which she held for two years. Her hiring came amid a push for diversity in the industry.
Why ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Delia Owens Is Wanted for Questioning
The release of a movie based on the best-selling novel renewed questions about the author, Delia Owens, her time in Zambia and the shooting of a suspected poacher there.
In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning
Liska Jacobs’s novel sets a honeymooning couple in a posh Beverly Hills establishment during a summer of unrest in Los Angeles.
Review: ‘Porn of the Self’
Cocktails, an addiction to erotica, workplace harassment and more.
Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield
Does poetry have any place in a war zone? For one correspondent, it is indispensable.
Book Review: “The Inheritors” by Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks’s decades-spanning portrait addresses three experiences of the “New South Africa.”
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