Book Review: ‘River Spirit,’ by Leila Aboulela
“River Spirit,” a novel by Leila Aboulela, follows an enslaved girl in a turbulent 19th-century Sudan.
‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic
At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
Book Review: ‘The Curator,’ by Owen King
In “The Curator,” a historical fantasy by Owen King, a woman searches for answers about her brother’s death in a time of unrest.
New Psychological Thrillers
Pulse-pounding, nail-biting new novels guaranteed to deliver delicious reading chills.
Maryse Condé, at Home in the World
Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center.
Book Review: ‘War Diary,’ by Yevgenia Belorusets
In photographs and journal entries, Yevgenia Belorusets captures Kyiv in the early days of Russia’s invasion.
A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past
When Alice Winn stumbled on the archives of her British boarding school’s newspaper, she discovered a world, only to see it “destroyed and dismantled” during World War I. She brought it back in her novel, “In Memoriam.”
Book Review: ‘Happily,’ by Sabrina Orah Mark
“Happily,” a book of essays by Sabrina Orah Mark, reveals the lessons that children’s stories teach us well into adulthood.
Osamu Dazai, With Help From TikTok, Keeps Finding New Fans
The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide.
Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free
First Jenny Odell examined our obsession with productivity. Now she’s turned to our relationship with time — and what happens when you remove the grid.
Book Review: ‘The Farewell Tour,’ by Stephanie Clifford
In her second novel, “The Farewell Tour,” Stephanie Clifford follows a veteran singer who’s wrapping up a long career on her own terms.
Revisiting ‘Wisconsin Death Trip,’ 50 Years Later
The Times’s critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy’s cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.
Building a New Canon of Black Literature
What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?
Book Review: ‘Pineapple Street,’ by Jenny Jackson
In Jenny Jackson’s debut novel, “Pineapple Street,” readers get a tour of a world they might learn not to envy by the end of the book.
Book Review: ‘Old Babes in the Wood,’ by Margaret Atwood
Her new story collection, “Old Babes in the Wood,” offers elegiac scenes from a marriage plus a grab bag of curious fables.
Book Review: “The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams,” by Daniel Nayeri
In Daniel Nayeri’s new middle grade novel, a runaway orphan boy joins a caravan and falls under the sway of its loquacious leader.
Book Review: ‘The Hive,’ by Camilo José Cela
Some 300 characters — bartenders, deadbeats, dreamers — animate Madrid in “The Hive,” by the Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela.
Ari Shapiro Reads Cookbooks for Comfort and Pleasure
“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America
A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.
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