7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Attempts to Ban Books Accelerated in 2023
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.
Writing a Book About Grief Isn’t Always Cathartic
Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.
What Is Your Favorite Funny Novel? We Want to Know.
The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list?
22 of the Funniest Novels
Because we could all use a laugh.
Interview: Kate Zambreno on ‘Heroines’
Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” Her 2012 “Heroines” has just been reissued.
Book Review: ‘Glad to the Brink of Fear,’ by James Marcus
In “Glad to the Brink of Fear,” James Marcus frames the great Transcendentalist as a writer for our times.
Book Review: ‘Soldiers and Kings,’ by Jason De León
In “Soldiers and Kings,” the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.
Read Your Way Through the San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today.
Guernica Magazine Retracts Essay by Israeli as Staffers Quit
An Israeli writer’s essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.
Marnia Lazreg, Scholar of Algeria and the Veil, Dies at 83
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
Book Review: ‘Devout,’ by Anna Gazmarian
In “Devout,” an author who grew up in the evangelical church recounts her struggle to find spiritual and psychological well-being after a mental health challenge.
Book Review: ‘Wild Houses,’ by Colin Barrett
Colin Barrett’s first novel, “Wild Houses,” follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.
Book Review: ‘Lessons for Survival,’ by Emily Raboteau
In her elegant essay collection, “Lessons for Survival,” Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
Book Review: ‘Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution,’ by Jane Kamensky
In “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution,” the historian Jane Kamensky presents a raw personal — and cultural — history.
Andre Dubus III Built His Dream Home With a Boiler Room Office
When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.
Book Review: ‘Great Expectations,’ by Vinson Cunningham
Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate.
17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92
Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York, where he tended bar, appeared in soap operas, wrote a best seller, and, with his family, scattered “Angela’s Ashes.”
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