9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New Horror Fiction
In “Motherthing,” by Ainslie Hogarth, a woman discovers her husband’s mother is even more bothersome dead than alive.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Kevin Wilson By the Book Interview
“I tend to love books where freakishness isn’t presented as something inhuman,” says the author, whose new novel is “Now Is Not the Time to Panic,” “but rather an affirmation of what it means to be a human being trying to survive in a very inhospitable world.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Newly Published, From Flamingo Feathers to North Korea
A selection of books published this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
3 books in translation that ask a lot — and allow the reader to ask a lot in return
Concerning My Daughter, Hugs and Cuddles and Freeway: La Movie do not pretend to be easy reads, yet they are all completely consuming.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Diaghilev’s Empire,’ by Rupert Christiansen
The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Review: ‘The Singularities,’ by John Banville
“The Singularities” is an ambitiously referential work that confronts some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Cormac McCarthy's new books seem to try to encapsulate the human experience
The Passenger and Stella Maris -- the author's first two books in more than a decade — seem to want to decode the meaning of life, both as standalone novels and together as intertwined works.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘The New Yorkers,’ by Sam Roberts
A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A canine psychologist with a new puppy explores 'how dogs become themselves'
Alexandra Horowitz is an authority on how dogs perceive the world, but her new book is not a training manual. In The Year of the Puppy, she says there's plenty she doesn't know about canine cognition.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
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