8 Picture Books About Ordinary Kids’ Everyday Activism
From making soup to creating a butterfly garden, everyone can do something.
Poirot's The Star, But His Sidekick Shines In 'Kingfisher Hill'
The latest installment in the Hercule Poirot franchise — now being written by Sophie Hannah — is a masterful, multilayered puzzle in which Poirot's assistant Inspector Catchpool plays a key role.
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'Never Look Back' Updates An Ancient Story Of Love And Loss
Lilliam Rivera's new young adult novel reimagines Orpheus and Eurydice as Afro-Latinx teens in New York, bringing something new to the old tale by giving Eurydice her own baggage and her own story.
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Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real
These four thrillers may be gussied up with future settings, but the problems they confront are rooted in today’s world.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction
Akhtar discusses “Homeland Elegies” and Marc Lacey talks about “Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, and “The Violence Inside Us,” by Chris Murphy.
New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash
Three new collections explore the abuses, hypocrisies and awkwardnesses of living in this country today.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s
In her new book, “Just Us,” the poet and essayist repeatedly asks how race is understood and manifested in American culture.
'Here We Are' Conjures Magic From Ordinary Lives
Graham Smith's new novel seems at first to be a light little story about a seaside love triangle in Brighton, England in the 1950s — but it turns out to be about something far deeper.
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The Back Story Behind ‘Transcendent Kingdom’: Yaa Gyasi Is a Solid Friend
Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist’s lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator.
Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels
“Just tell me who did it.”
Revisiting the ‘Violent Ballets’ of Jack Kirby
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park explores books capturing Kirby’s life and work, including a new biography by Tom Scioli.
Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers
Isaiah Dunn has a superhero alter ego who gets his powers from eating beans and rice. Nnamdi is transformed by his anger into a seven-foot-tall hulk.
'The Last Million' Sheds Light On Middle East History, Newer Refugee Policy Failures
Historian David Nasaw writes with deep, broad knowledge of the hundreds of thousands of refugees filling Europe's roads after WWII, hoping to return to homes that, in many cases, no longer existed.
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From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner
Alex Ross’s “Wagnerism” is “a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians — resonances and reverberations of one art form into others.” Reviewed by John Adams.
The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America
Two new memoirs, Alicia Elliott’s “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” and Toni Jensen’s “Carry,” sketch harrowing portraits of Native life today.
The Man Who Made Us Feel for the Animals
In “A Traitor to His Species,” Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.
In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience
“Silence Is My Mother Tongue” witnesses a young brother and sister coming of age in a Sudanese refugee camp.
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