Editors’ Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Meg Wolitzer’s New Novel Takes on the Politics of Women’s Mentorship
Lena Dunham on “The Female Persuasion” and its cultural relevance in our current political climate.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Stumbling (And Texting) Toward Love In 'Emergency Contact'
Mary H.K. Choi's new novel follows Penny and Sam, both so loaded down with emotional baggage that at first, all they can do is swap numbers and agree to be each other's emergency contacts.
(Image credit: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
By the Book: Ernest Cline: By the Book
Ernest Cline, whose novel “Ready Player One” is the basis for a new movie, grew up reading: “Like many nerdy kids, I don’t know how I would have survived without being able to escape into books.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization
In “Fatal Discord,” Michael Massing tells the story of two men who took their fateful critique of the church in vastly different directions.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist?
In “Journey Into Europe,” the scholar Akbar Ahmed takes a close-up look at the discontents of Muslims in the West.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A Traveler to Troubled Lands, Called to Bear Witness
In the poetry book “House of Fact, House of Ruin” and the essay collection “The Land Between Two Rivers,” Tom Sleigh honors overlooked lives.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Immigration Is (And Isn't) Black And White In 'Yellow Negroes'
French cartoonist Yvan Alagbé uses a stark black and white palette to investigate the ways Western comics portray race — and the ways his country treats (and mistreats) its immigrant population.
(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Help Desk: Kill a Dead-End Job and Make the Leap to Career Happiness
Four new books provide advice on how to leave, how to stay and how to create real change for yourself and those around you.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Foreign Policy From the Dark Side
Robert D. Kaplan’s new collection of essays, “The Return of Marco Polo’s World,” examines recent developments in international affairs.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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