New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State
Thomas Mann spent the years during World War I composing “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” an idiosyncratic assault on democracy and reason that was recently reissued. The book’s political ideas are of little use, Christopher Beha writes, but Mann’s critique of how democracies enlist writers to serve as their social conscience resonates forcefully today.
Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King
In “The Beatryce Prophecy,” a young girl is hunted by the king because of a prophecy that she will unseat him.
Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece
“Kaleidoscope” is the stuff of dreams — glittering shards of a wondrously ungraspable story.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
They Survived, They Recovered (Mostly) ... What Next?
Three new memoirs traverse the rocky terrain between illness and everyday life.
Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin
A murder mystery on a London houseboat, a 16th-century Pacific voyage, and a deep dive into humans’ relationships with animals.
Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List
Four new titles either allude to the elusive commodity or grab it by the shoulders and pin it onto the page.
Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner
“They stopped speaking to him after he wrote some pretty cruel stuff about my mom in a story published in Esquire in 1975. I wouldn’t want Truman to stay very long though, and he couldn’t have any alcohol. Actually let’s make it Truman circa 1966, not the bloated Truman of 1975.”
Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?
In “The Platform Delusion,” Jonathan Knee takes apart the magical aura that surrounds one of Silicon Valley’s biggest conceptual exports.
Newly Published, From James Baldwin to a Life-Changing Dog
A selection of books published this week.
‘Fuzz,’ by Mary Roach: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Fuzz,” by Mary Roach
What Makes Someone Seek Pain for Pleasure?
In “Hurts So Good,” Leigh Cowart explores the science and culture of masochism, from the competitive pepper-eater to the ultramarathoner to sex of a certain variety.
What if the Inca Conquered Europe? A Novel Rewrites History.
“Civilizations,” by Laurent Binet, imagines a counterhistory of the Spanish conquests.
After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns
“Palmares” — her first novel since 1999’s “Mosquito” — is an emancipation story set in 17th-century Brazil.
This Kenyan Activist Said No to ‘the Cut’
In her memoir, “The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree,” Nice Leng’ete tells the story of her courageous fight against female genital mutilation.
Is Stranger Hatred Hard-Wired Into Humans?
“Of Fear and Strangers,” by George Makari, examines the history of xenophobia, its evolution in modern times and how we might combat it.
Gabrielle Union Has Some Personal Updates
In her second memoir, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” the actor bares her struggles with fertility, rape, aging and grief.
Colson Whitehead’s Warmhearted Novel of a 1960s Crime Caper in Harlem
“Harlem Shuffle” luxuriates in the seedy spaces of late night, “when the straight world slept and the bent got to work.”
A Novel of Young Love, New York City and Coffee
In Vince Passaro’s new novel, “Crazy Sorrow,” two college students meet in 1976. Their story spans decades.
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