9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In ‘From Scratch,’ the Locke Sisters Tell a Story of Love, Loss and Food
For the new Netflix series, Tembi Locke joined forces with her younger sister, Attica, a successful novelist and TV writer, to adapt her own memoir.
Roger Welsch, ‘America’s Premier Storyteller,’ Dies at 85
Author, humorist and tractor buff, he quit academia and found fame as a correspondent from the Nebraska heartland for the CBS News program “Sunday Morning.”
How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel
‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been her favorite.
Kelly Ripa Wrote for So Long, She Wore Out Her Chair
The morning show veteran did not mince words when she described her journey to become a first-time author.
Kelly Ripa Wrote for So Long, She Wore Out Her Chair
The morning show veteran did not mince words when she described her journey to become a first-time author.
Book Review: ‘The Sassoons’ by Joseph Sassoon
In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries.
Book Review: ‘The Sassoons’ by Joseph Sassoon
In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries.
Ken Burns By the Book Interview
“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’”
Ken Burns By the Book Interview
“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’”
Poem: The Son I’ll Never Have
This poem adroitly explores complex emotions around the speaker’s decision not to have a child.
Review: ‘The Passenger,’ by Cormac McCarthy
In “The Passenger,” a pair of siblings contend with the world’s enigmas and their own demons.
Review: ‘The Passenger,’ by Cormac McCarthy
In “The Passenger,” a pair of siblings contend with the world’s enigmas and their own demons.
Book Review: ‘Seduced by Story,’ by Peter Brooks
In “Seduced by Story,” the literary critic Peter Brooks argues that a “mindless valorization of storytelling” has crept into every aspect of public discourse, from politics to cookie packages, with alarming results.
Book Review: ‘Seduced by Story,’ by Peter Brooks
In “Seduced by Story,” the literary critic Peter Brooks argues that a “mindless valorization of storytelling” has crept into every aspect of public discourse, from politics to cookie packages, with alarming results.
Murder in the Mosque
In “Blackwater Falls,” Ausma Zehanat Khan introduces a Muslim police detective bent on bringing justice to marginalized communities.
Murder in the Mosque
In “Blackwater Falls,” Ausma Zehanat Khan introduces a Muslim police detective bent on bringing justice to marginalized communities.
Recent Books of Military History
Historians rethink North America before colonization, American racial divisions over two centuries and a Persian Empire under steady duress.
Recent Books of Military History
Historians rethink North America before colonization, American racial divisions over two centuries and a Persian Empire under steady duress.
Newly Published, From Homecoming Queens to Visual Thinking
A selection of books published this week.
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