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An excerpt from “Festival Days,” by Jo Ann Beard
In “The Performance,” Claire Thomas raises the curtain on the lives of three women who attend the same play on a hot summer night.
From a Nevada “divorce ranch” to literary Dublin to 19th-century Sweden, these characters put relationships to the test.
The new biography, by Julia Sweig, shows the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson to have been ahead of her time (and possibly her husband) on women’s rights, racial disparities and other issues.
The author’s forceful new collection, “Festival Days,” features characters, mostly drawn from life, often confronting illness, loss, violence and death.
Thomas Dyja’s “New York, New York, New York” describes the city’s revival in recent years, and the problems it will face in the future.
In “Plunder,” a memoir by Menachem Kaiser, the author tries to repossess a building owned by his grandfather before the war and discovers a history he knew nothing about.
Named after the classic TV series, a new novel by Nona Fernández mines Chile’s dark history and shifts restlessly between genres.
In “Elizabeth and Margaret,” Andrew Morton hows how the queen and her sister struggled in their relationship.
“I was doing it before Zoom bookshelves were a thing. Interior designers eat your hearts out.”
Why do we assume that a work of literary fiction must be based on its author’s life?
Mbue talks about “How Beautiful We Were,” and Annalee Newitz discusses “Four Lost Cities.”
Michael Moss’s “Hooked” explores the science of food addiction and the companies that make a profit from manipulating our biological instincts.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Michael Lowenthal’s new story collection, “Sex With Strangers,” is a look at the tensions that animate life and relationships.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Tobey Pearl’s “Terror to the Wicked” describes a 1638 trial in which three colonists were convicted and executed for murdering a Native American.
In “Hunt, Gather, Parent,” Michaeleen Doucleff visits with Indigenous people to pick up parenting tactics that Western cultures may be sorely lacking.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
"It was about humans and birds and science and the rights of animals to be free of human interference. So, pretty much a perfect storm for Jo Ann.”
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