2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies
“What Can I Say?” and “You Know, Sex” help adolescents navigate the awkward age.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Elif Batuman Read Marie Kondo’s Book. Now Her Shelves Spark Joy.
“People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’” says the author, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” “I was able to let go of a lot of shame and self-hatred that turned out to be tied up in my accumulated belongings.”
Review: “The Hotel Nantucket” by Elin Hilderbrand and “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner
Elin Hilderbrand and Jennifer Weiner deliver their annual installments of salty air, summer love and personal entanglements.
Review: ‘Kafka’s Drawings,’ by Andreas Kilcher
A new book of the modernist’s sketches reveals the tension he saw between words and images.
Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother’s Holocaust Story
An 18-year-old student and a 98-year-old survivor teamed up to write “Lily’s Promise,” a best-selling memoir of Auschwitz and its aftermath.
Book Review: ‘The Latecomer,’ by Jean Hanff Korelitz
In “The Latecomer,” Jean Hanff Korelitz takes on complicated family dynamics, infidelity, race, class, religion, guilt, art and real estate.
Newly Published, From Rainbow Cocktails to Magical Beasts
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Strange, Slippery and Beautiful: A Master Essayist at Work
“The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick” presents a critic who ruminates on topics as varied as Maine, Monica Lewinsky and grits.
Book Review: ‘The Bar at Twilight,’ by Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten’s story collection “The Bar at Twilight” is full of bittersweet portraits of artists and the places that shaped them.
Review: “Sleepwalk,” by Dan Chaon
Just how lawless and unhinged can the world rendered in “Sleepwalk” get?
Review: ‘Evening Hero,’ by Marie Myung-ok Lee
In “The Evening Hero,” a retired Korean-born obstetrician navigates later adulthood in an unwelcoming American mining town.
Review: ‘What the Ermine Saw,’ by Eden Collinsworth
A history of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-Century portrait, “Lady With an Ermine,” is also a history of modern Europe.
A New Psychological Thriller Explores the Grim Underbelly of Life as a Social Media Moderator
Hanna Bervoets’s latest novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” is a discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see.
Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’
Morton discusses his first work of nonfiction, and Rachel Careau talks about translating “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri,” by Colette.
Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking.
In the follow-up to “The Idiot,” the protagonist returns to Harvard for another year of exquisite intellectual torment and underwhelming romance.
6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
This month’s recommendations feature Viola Davis, a supernatural World War II horror novel and a steamy Jamaican romance.
New Crime Novels
Robin Peguero’s novel, “With Prejudice,” features a tough-talking prosecutor who says, “The jury is a crew of misfits. The scraps that neither side particularly wanted.”
Review: “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty,” by Akwaeke Emezi
In Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty,” a young widow stumbles into new life and romance while grieving for her past love.
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