What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy
“The Second Founding,” by the historian Eric Foner, argues that the radical promise of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — all passed after the Civil War — remains unfulfilled today.
In 'Savage Gods,' An Author Finds That Pondering Being Leads To An Inability To Write
Paul Kingsnorth moved to a small farm in Ireland to be closer to the land and to reconnect with the essence of being. Instead of contentment, he found that it was tough to find meaning in writing.
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A Translator’s Tribute to the Lifesaving Power of Words
In her evocative memoir, “Homesick,” Jennifer Croft recalls, in words and images, her troubled childhood and the solace she found in language.
More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help.
“Guts,” Raina Telgemeier’s warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home for parents and children trying to climb out of the abyss of worry.
Meat Is Murder. But You Know That Already.
In his new essay collection, “We Are the Weather,” Jonathan Safran Foer turns his attention to the climate crisis. Mark Bittman weighs in.
She Escaped From Nxivm. Now She’s Written a Book About the Sex Cult.
In “Scarred,” Sarah Edmondson — once a high-ranking Nxivm member — describes her years in the group.
'Red At The Bone' Cuts Close To The Bone
Jacqueline Woodson's exquisitely wrought new novel follows two black families of different classes whose lives become intertwined when their only children conceive a child together in their teens.
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'The Undying' Catalogs The Unceasing Losses Of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Arriving the year before an election that could set healthcare and disability policy for decades, Anne Boyer's memoir warns us of the human costs of any system that prioritizes profit over lives.
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Climbing Out of the Abyss of Worry
With anxiety disorders on the rise among children, “Guts,” Raina Telgemaier’s warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home.
Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse
Four poetry collections — “Be Recorder,” by Carmen Giménez Smith; “Odes to Lithium,” by Shira Erlichman; “Grief Sequence,” by Prageeta Sharma; and “Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers,” by Jake Skeets — explore narratives of belonging and identity.
How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel
The Canadian poet Steven Price has written a novel, “Lampedusa,” about the creation of one of Italy’s iconic works of fiction, “The Leopard.”
Is the Green New Deal Realistic? Two Sympathetic Authors Weigh In
In new books, Naomi Klein and Jeremy Rifkin take very different approaches to A.O.C.’s progressive climate proposal.
Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise.
In “Coventry,” the British author of the widely admired “Outline” trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision.
Love Among the Ruins
In Stella Tillyard’s novel “Call Upon the Water,” a 17th-century Dutch engineer sets out to drain the English fenlands, but finds his spirit drained instead.
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Disney to Drag
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals
Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own, and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
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3 Crackling Young Adult Reads To Welcome Fall
Time to put down the beach reads and pick up some substantive, immersive new young adult books — from a monstrous fantasy, to a refugee's tale, to a story that brings new meaning to haunted houses.
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A Bluesy, Sweetly Aching New Novel From Jacqueline Woodson
In “Red at the Bone,” the effects of an unplanned teenage pregnancy ripple through three generations of a Brooklyn family.
'Homesick' Is A Boundary-Expanding Story Of Devotion And Growing Up
Accomplished translator Jennifer Croft's first non-translated work is a hybrid, mixing photography and impressionistic autobiographical writing to tell the story of Croft's artistic coming of age.
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'The Divers' Game' Depicts An Unimaginably Unjust, All Too Believably Cruel World
In author Jesse Ball's universe, which runs too closely parallel to our own, human worth has been reduced, negated, argued out of existence. But it has left an echo, one with a haunting symphony.
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