Fiction: The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The stories in “At the End of the Century” — all character studies — have an addictive, told-over-tea quality.
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Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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By the Book: Chigozie Obioma: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “An Orchestra of Minorities” is “hardly turned off by considerations of genre. … I have found even manuals — of how to hunt wild birds in West Africa — fascinating.”
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Poetry: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches
When he died in 2016, the singer left behind hundreds of notebooks that have yielded material for a new miscellany, “The Flame.”
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Nonfiction: How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War
“The War Before the War,” by the literary critic Andrew Delbanco, is a forceful and eloquent case for the role of fugitives in fomenting a national crisis.
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The Shortlist: Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage
In culinary essays, Dawn Drzal, Christine S. O’Brien and Ann Hood embark on personal journeys in which meals reveal much more than what’s on the menu.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Essay: How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong
Book publishing is big on TV and in the movies. The essayist Sloane Crosley, a former book publicist, fact-checks the shows.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A Book That Will Make You Terrified of Your Own House
Rob Dunn’s “Never Home Alone” catalogs the world of microbial beings that share our living space and inhabit our showerheads and pillowcases.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey
In “Born to Be Posthumous,” Mark Dery probes the “eccentric life” and “mysterious genius” of the illustrator whose books have proved fiendishly irresistible.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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