Book Review: ‘My Stupid Intentions,’ by Bernardo Zannoni
The narrator of “My Stupid Intentions,” Bernardo Zannoni’s debut novel, is a beech marten in an unforgiving world.
Book Review: ‘A Most Tolerant Little Town,’ by Rachel Louise Martin
Clinton, Tenn., tried to desegregate its high school in 1956, one year before Little Rock. It didn’t go well.
Book Review: ‘Dances,’ by Nicole Cuffy; ‘Innards,’ Magogodi oaMphela Makhene; ‘8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster,’ by Mirinae Lee
From apartheid South Africa to North Korea to the stage of the New York City Ballet, the characters in these three new books imagine themselves in lives other than their own.
Book Review: ‘Young and Restless,’ by Mattie Kahn
In “Young and Restless,” Mattie Kahn returns young women and girls to their rightful role in the history books: as forces for change.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ Pulls New Book Set In Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert delayed her new novel indefinitely after an online backlash condemned the book’s publication while Russia is at war with Ukraine.
‘Beyond This Harbor,’ a Memoir by Rose Styron, Has Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names
The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said.
Book Review: ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,’ by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.
Book Review: ‘Girlfriend on Mars,’ by Deborah Willis
In Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend on Mars,” a young woman enters a reality-TV contest to leave the planet, and her marijuana-farming boyfriend, behind.
Book Review: ‘Wannabe,’ by Aisha Harris
In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.
WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party
Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.
Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93
He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
Book Review: ‘To Name the Bigger Lie,’ by Sarah Viren
This is the question at the heart of “To Name the Bigger Lie,” by Sarah Viren, which tries to make sense of two disturbing episodes from her life in the context of a culture where truth itself is increasingly in dispute.
Book Review: ‘Burn It Down,’ by Maureen Ryan
The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.
Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon
A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories.
Book Review: ‘Mozart in Motion,’ by Patrick Mackie
In Patrick Mackie’s “Mozart in Motion,” the socially observant composer embraces modernity.
Book Review: ‘You Can’t Stay Here Forever,’ by Katherine Lin
In her debut novel, “You Can’t Stay Here Forever,” Katherine Lin follows a young widow and her best friend to the French Riviera.
Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.
Book Review: ‘Say Anarcha,’ by J.C. Hallman
“Say Anarcha” is J.C. Hallman’s meticulous biography of the enslaved woman who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a lauded doctor.
New Crime Books From Katie Siegel, James Wolff and More
In new crime novels from Victoria Kielland, James Wolff, Katie Siegel and Michael McGarrity, the past is hard to shake.
Newly Published, From the Scientific Method to Éric Vuillard
A selection of recently published books.
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