Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
For November, A Romance Trio For 'Hamilton' Fans (And The Rest Of You, Too)
Even if you haven't seen the musical, you can keep warm this November with a delightful trio of novellas set in and around the battalion commanded by Alexander Hamilton at the siege of Yorktown.
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'This Mortal Coil' Will Get You All Twisted Up
Emily Suvada's debut novel — a high-tech young adult dystopia — is bursting with ideas (and exploding viruses). And while it might seem like a conventional thriller, it's got a twist to reckon with.
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Children’s Books: Who’s a Hero? Who’s a Villain? It’s Anyone’s Guess in This Fall’s Best Y.A. Fantasy
Teenage bounty hunters in a virtual-reality world, Amazons in New York City, vicious unicorns and other good guys gone bad.
Children’s Books: Under Siege From a Mysterious Fog
Based on an Oscar-nominated short film, “The Dam Keeper,” a richly drawn graphic novel, tells of a heroic pig who must save his village from a dark and deadly force.
By the Book: Krysten Ritter: By the Book
The actress and author of a thriller, “Bonfire,” can’t read on the set of “Jessica Jones”: “It is crazy exciting! But it’s not a reading environment.”
Children’s Books: Learning the Art of the Pickpocket
Colin Meloy’s latest novel follows a wealthy, neglected boy who joins a legendary gang of child grifters. What could go wrong?
Nonfiction: A Grand Tour of the Crisis in Europe
In “Fractured Continent,” William Drozdiak presents Europe from its various capitals, highlighting the difficult, new reality of the 21st century.
World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict
Thomas E. Ricks surveys 12 new books of military history.
'Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life' Examines The Personal Traits That Marked FDR For Greatness
NPR's Ron Elving says historian Robert Dallek's latest tome "emphasizes the human scale of FDR's life, his interaction with the people around him and the interplay among his intimates."
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Children’s Books: Bookshelf: Capturing the Magic of Wintertime
Mice that ice-skate, kids who make a snowbear, twins who discover a winter wonderland and more in this season’s best cold-weather picture books.
'Mrs. Osmond' Presents A Portrait Of A Lady As Mopey Schemer
Author John Banville makes a valiant imaginative leap with Mrs. Osmond, his attempt to craft a new ending for the heroine of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, but he doesn't quite land it.
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'Radio Free Vermont' Offers A Modest Proposal For Resistance
Activist Bill McKibben answers his own call for topical fiction with Radio Free Vermont, a gently surreal tale about a septuagenarian troublemaker who inadvertently sparks a secession movement.
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Children’s Books: A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead
“The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine,” completed and illustrated by Erin and Philip Stead, unites old-fashioned storytelling virtues with a playful modern sensibility.
Nonfiction: Amid African Extremism, a Writer Finds an ‘Ordinary and Rare Kind of Bravery’
Alexis Okeowo’s book “A Moonless, Starless Sky” profiles regular people living in defiance of extremist movements across the African continent.
Children’s Books: These Kids Never, Never, Never Give Up
In new picture books from Mo Willems, Dan Santat, Lemony Snicket and others, young heroes and heroines get into — and out of — every kind of scrape
Fiction: The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’
Karen Shepard’s short story collection “Kiss Me Someone” vividly demonstrates that a woman can be another woman’s worst enemy.
Profile: In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax
Every era gets the chronicler it deserves. Kevin Young, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, tracks the progression of bunk through the ages.
Open Book: New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
'Spineless' Dives Deep Into The World Of Jellyfish
Part memoir, part travelogue, part science tome, Juli Berwald's book is thoroughly entertaining, and makes the case for the jellyfish as both fascinating animal and a bellwether for climate change.
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