Book Review: “The Nursery,” by Szilvia Molnar
In her debut novel, “The Nursery,” Szilvia Molnar paints an honest, frightening and claustrophobic picture of new motherhood.
Book Review: ‘Commitment,’ by Mona Simpson
In Mona Simpson’s new novel, “Commitment,” a precariously functioning family fractures under the pressure of mental illness. Or does it?
In Rehearsal One Minute, Laid Off the Next: The Fate of Broadway’s ‘Room’
Actors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actress Adrienne Warren, was postponed indefinitely.
What We’re Reading
Gilbert Cruz talks to Book Review staff members about the books they’ve been enjoying lately.
Book Review: “Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar,” by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, and “Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!,” written by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Before her, guitarists played the blues, and mostly sat down doing it. Sister Rosetta Tharpe stepped out.
What Happens on Page 76 in This Season’s New Books?
The artist Didier William envisions new releases by Victor LaValle, Mona Simpson and more.
Jailed in Egypt at 17, He Wrote to Survive and to Share His Long Ordeal
Sentenced as a teenager to 15 years for “unlawful assembly,” Abdelrahman ElGendy started recording the abuses of prison life. The idea of someday publishing his memoir gave him a reason to live.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Broadway’s ‘Room,’ Starring Adrienne Warren, Postpones Run Indefinitely
The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue’s best-selling 2010 novel.
Trang Thanh Tran Has a Song for That
From Pomplamoose to MXMS to Taylor Swift, this best-selling author’s playlist is tailored to all the moods in “She Is a Haunting.”
Book Review: ‘Still Life With Bones,’ by Alexa Hagerty
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina — and what such work means for the families of victims.
Mona Simpson’s Fiancé Promised to Read ‘Middlemarch.’ He Never Did. Now He’s Her Ex.
“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.”
Poem: [All things now remind me]
This poem is a heartbreaker for all who know or will know soon enough what it is like to once have been “young and desirous” and to be those things no more.
New Crime Books From Joyce Carol Oates, Harini Nagendra and More
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ’48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,’ by Joyce Carol Oates
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ‘Birchers,’ by Matthew Dallek
A new account of the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek charts its history — and outsize influence on the contemporary Republican Party.
Read Your Way Through Miami
To love Miami is to accept that it is a city in flux. Jonathan Escoffery, one of its writers, recommends books that help pin the Florida metropolis down.
Newly Published, From a Mozambican Emperor to Nazi Face Transplants
A selection of recently published books.
Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved.
An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.
Amy Schwartz, Who Captured Life as Viewed by a Child, Dies at 68
The dozens of books for young readers that she wrote and illustrated had a knack for finding “the wondrous in the mundane.”
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