12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A creation myth in Sheila Heti's 'Pure Colour' has art critics as evolutionary stars
The novel is simultaneously wise and silly, moving and inscrutable. It is also indisputably working hard to be new.
(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord
This week’s latest top sellers include unexpected treats and old favorites.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years.
“An everyday pickup line, but it worked,” says the novelist, whose new book is “The Swimmers.” “I haven’t been in touch with him since, but I return to ‘The Lover’ every now and again, and never fail to fall under its spell.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Journalist Went Undercover as a Refugee. It Became an Act of Love.
To better understand the plight of Afghan refugees, the reporter Matthieu Aikins undertook a journey with one. “The Naked Don’t Fear the Water” tells the story.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A damaging love affair with the U.S. ends in heartbreak in 'Black American Refugee'
Tiffanie Drayton tells the story of coming to the U.S. as an immigrant child and discovering that no level of accomplishment would enable her to shake the burden of Blackness in this nation.
(Image credit: Viking)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
'Moon Witch, Spider King' is a rare sequel that is better than its predecessor
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy, systematically dismantled the known foundations of epic fantasy. This sequel once again shattered expectations.
(Image credit: Riverhead)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant.
In “Index, A History of the,” Dennis Duncan explores the life and times of a practice that’s been dividing readers since Gutenberg.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The First Lady Asks an Unknown Reporter to Write Her Biography. Why?
In “Our American Friend,” Anna Pitoniak imagines an unlikely collaboration in a political climate that feels strangely familiar.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Watergate,’ by Garrett M. Graff
Garrett M. Graff’s “Watergate: A New History” is a thorough account of everything that is known about the epic events of Richard Nixon’s last year in office.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
- ‹ previous
- 577 of 1501
- next ›
Search this Site
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
