Despite The Title, We Bet You'll Like This YA Novel — A Lot
Michelle Quach's immensely lovable YA debut Not Here to Be Liked centers on Eliza, who's just been done out of her dream job as editor of the high school paper by an unqualified but very charming boy.
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Ruth Ozeki’s Borgesian, Zen Buddhist Parable of Consumerism
In “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” the characters are so preoccupied with material possessions that objects come to life all around them.
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Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’?
In “Generation Occupy,” Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.
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Colson Whitehead on ‘Harlem Shuffle’
Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses “The Magician.”
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Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State
Thomas Mann spent the years during World War I composing “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” an idiosyncratic assault on democracy and reason that was recently reissued. The book’s political ideas are of little use, Christopher Beha writes, but Mann’s critique of how democracies enlist writers to serve as their social conscience resonates forcefully today.
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Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King
In “The Beatryce Prophecy,” a young girl is hunted by the king because of a prophecy that she will unseat him.
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Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece
“Kaleidoscope” is the stuff of dreams — glittering shards of a wondrously ungraspable story.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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