Book Bans and What to Read in May
Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth Harris talk publishing news, and Joumana Khatib previews the month’s big books.
3 works in translation tell science-driven tales
AI may be the topic du jour, but for now only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature in a new language, as translators have done with these three works.
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New Historical Fiction
Welcome to three novels set in locales where life is exceedingly difficult.
Friendship in Three New Books for Early Readers
Otis and Peanut, Panda and Squirrel, and Bear and Bird bravely follow in the footsteps of Frog and Toad and George and Martha.
Friendship in Three New Books for Early Readers
Otis and Peanut, Panda and Squirrel, and Bear and Bird bravely follow in the footsteps of Frog and Toad and George and Martha.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Gone to the Wolves' masterfully portrays the heavy metal scene of the '80s and '90s
John Wray's latest novel is a powerful and juicy story about a particular time, subculture, and the ways people can find themselves in — or can deliberately disappear into — fandom.
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Maggie Smith’s Muse Is Central Ohio
The author of “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus.
Maggie Smith’s Muse Is Central Ohio
The author of “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus.
Meet Nancy Hale, the Jazz Age Rebel Who Chronicled Women’s Lives
A decorated writer in the 1940s, Nancy Hale analyzed the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and the realities of female experience. Why has she fallen into obscurity?
By the Book: Sarah Sze Wishes She Could Hear Gertrude Stein Pick a Fight
The artist, whose exhibition “Timelapse” is at the Guggenheim, would invite Stein to dinner with Cervantes and Murasaki Shikibu: “Stein might instigate a … debate on the origin of the modern novel.”
Stuck in a Rut? You’re Not Alone.
Change is hard; everybody knows that. These books might provide the gentle nudge you need.
What Tucker Carlson’s Text Message Says About His Code of Whiteness
The racial ideology revealed in the former Fox News host’s text message.
Newly Published, From Roller Disco to ‘Frankenstein’ With Dinosaurs
A selection of recently published books.
'Shy' follows the interior monologue of a troubled teen boy
Max Porter's compulsively readable primal scream of a novel offers a compassionate portrait of boy jerked around by uncontrollable mood swings that lead to self-sabotaging decisions.
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Book Review: ‘Homegrown,’ by Jeffrey Toobin
“Homegrown,” by Jeffrey Toobin, revisits the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, finding ominous parallels between the bomber’s anti-government extremism and the views of Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Book Review: ‘The Covenant of Water,’ by Abraham Verghese
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
'The Covenant of Water' tells the story of three generations in South India
Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's latest novel in the coming months and years; it's a literary feat that deserves to be lauded as much as those of the likes of Dickens and Eliot.
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Healing the Unsung Healers
In Sarah DiGregorio’s “Taking Care,” the author explores the history, culture and crucial importance of nurses.
Book Review: ‘Homebodies,’ by Tembe Denton-Hurst
In Tembe Denton-Hurst’s new novel, “Homebodies,” a young woman loses her New York media job and must figure out how to restart her life.
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