9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.
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Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.
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In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who happily mines her life for material.
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New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.
Young, Cool, Coddled and Raised on the Internet
The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is such a thing as publishing too soon.
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The Complicated Artist Behind the Moomins
The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.
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Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.
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Inside Mexico’s Brutal Drug Rehabs for the Poor
In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.
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Anne Lamott Has Written Classics. This Is Not One of Them.
Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.
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Long Before Trump, Immigrant Detention Was Arbitrary and Cruel
“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.
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Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir
“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”
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She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, “Real Americans,” while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.
By Robert Ito
In “The Age of Grievance,” the New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni chronicles the nation’s descent into constant kvetching.
By Lionel Shriver
“Lublin,” a novel by Manya Wilkinson, brings together a quest fable and a dark history with disarming humor.
By Randy Boyagoda
In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.
By Azam Ahmed
Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.
An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.
By Aubrey Nolan
In Lily Meyer’s first novel, “Short War,” love and family ties are tested by a nation’s upheaval.
By Jamie Fisher
The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem.”
By Danyel Smith
“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.
By Dina Gachman
The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native England, but with her best-selling comic novel “Good Material” she’s become a trans-Atlantic success.
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