11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A Complaint Against Liberal Modernity, and a Solution: Faith
In “The Unbroken Thread,” Sohrab Ahmari sees Western society as having overreached on freedom and lost a sense of rootedness in tradition and community.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Unsettled Ground' Lets Its Oddballs Stay Defiantly Odd
Claire Fuller's beautifully written new novel follows 51-year-old twins who never left home, forced finally to cope with the outside world and some unpleasant family secrets after their mother dies.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
When Your Name Is Sunny (Hostin), Your Beach Read Belongs on the Best-Seller List
The co-host of “The View” talks about why she wrote “Summer on the Bluffs” and why Martha’s Vineyard is important to her.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
From the Ice of Greenland, a Deadly Virus and a Familiar Doom
In “Phase Six,” by Jim Shepard, pathogens released from excavated permafrost set off a global pandemic.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In ‘Let the Record Show,’ Sarah Schulman Erects a Monument to the AIDS Movement
A political history of ACT UP New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s is part oral history, part call to arms.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So.
With our calendars cleared last year, many of us found more time to lose ourselves in books. Let’s hold onto that vibe this year.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Rachel Cusk's 'Second Place' Offers Sharp Perceptions About Love And Creativity
A writer offers up her guest house to a famous painter in hope that something transcendent will happen. But he's selfish, amoral and flagrantly misogynistic — and monstrously at ease with all this.
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Sebastian Junger Tackles The Idea Of 'Freedom' But Arrives At No Conclusion
Freedom, Junger's latest book, follows the author and a group of acquaintances as they embark on a long walk from Washington D.C. to Pittsburgh, tracing railroad lines.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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