12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Can You Make a Page-Turning Thriller Out of the Ebola Crisis?
In “Crisis in the Red Zone,” Richard Preston recounts how Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014 and what it meant for those desperate to treat the infected.
In Praise of Samuel R. Delany
The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes.
A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War
“Beirut Hellfire Society,” by Rawi Hage, features a 20-year-old undertaker and a secret association of hedonists. There are also talking dogs.
Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’
The Nobel laureate spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012. Her lecture is published here for the first time.
4 Books for a Better Understanding of the Border
Oscar Cásares, whose novel “Where We Come From” is set in an American town bordering Mexico, shares his recommendations.
The Essential Toni Morrison Reader
The Nobel laureate, who has died at 88, left a rich, powerful literary legacy. These are some of her best — and most essential — books.
12 of Toni Morrison’s Most Memorable Quotes
The author’s thoughts on writing, freedom, identity and more.
‘Beloved,’ ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘Sula’: The Essential Toni Morrison Reader
The Nobel laureate, who has died at 88, left a rich, powerful literary legacy. These are some of her best — and most essential — books.
Toni Morrison, ‘Beloved’ Author and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 88
Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in Literature.
Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction
In “White Flights,” a new collection of essays, the novelist Jess Row plumbs the implicit whiteness of some of our most influential literature.
A Memoirist Remembers the Twinkle in Her Father’s Eye
In “Travel Light, Move Fast,” the fourth volume of Alexandra Fuller’s lacerating portrait of her family, she focuses on her loving and lighthearted father, Tim.
Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit
In “Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land,” Julia Blackburn seeks traces of Doggerland, which once linked Britain to the Continent.
All in the Family: A Multicultural Memoir
The novelist Susan Straight’s “In the Country of Women” celebrates the grit and generosity of a world atlas’s worth of female relatives.
A Suicide Bombing Shatters a Divided Family
In Rajia Hassib’s novel “A Pure Heart,” an Egyptologist excavates her own grief in the wake of the Arab Spring.
He Said, He Said: One Writer’s Account of His Second Act
“The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony” is Rick Moody’s attempt to come to terms with his troubled domestic life.
A Huckster for the Ages
Robert Wilson’s “Barnum: An American Life” doesn’t draw direct parallels with Donald Trump, but the links are certainly there.
Karl Marx: Prophet of the Present
A new biography by Shlomo Avineri argues for a reconsideration of one of the most influential political thinkers of recent times.
New & Noteworthy, From Prince Albert to a Bird’s-Eye View of the Apocalypse
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
How the War Against Truth Went Global
In “This Is Not Propaganda,” Peter Pomerantsev describes traveling the world to discover ever new forms of media manipulation.
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