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7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:15pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Kwame Alexander on Bringing the Free Spirit of Jazz to Young Viewers

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5:02am

By Laurel Graeber

The latest in the author’s Acoustic Rooster franchise, a PBS Kids special and series aim to teach children the beauty of collaboration and improvisation.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5:01am

By Grayson Haver Currin and Eli Durst

In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Interview: Geena Davis on Her New Childrens’ Book and Her Reading Life

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5:00am

Among her other favorites: “Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s book.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘Waste Wars,’ by Alexander Clapp

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5:00am

By Ian Volner

In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

David Horowitz, Leftist Turned Trump Defender, Is Dead at 86

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 7:17pm

By Trip Gabriel

Once a Marxist, he came to embrace hard-right positions, including the falsehood that Mr. Trump won in 2020, and to mentor Stephen Miller, later the Trump adviser.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Andrew Gross, Best-Selling Writer of Thrillers, Is Dead at 72

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 4:40pm

By Alex Williams

A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews