BUILDING STORIES By Chris Ware. The seemingly abundant wisdom of the natural world is really a vision of her own searching reflection. THE SLEEPWALKERS: How Europe Went to War in 1914 By Christopher Clark. It also casts a light on the kinds of people and attitudes midcoastal Maine produces, with its jarring juxtapositions of poverty and wealth. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) And listen to us on the Book Review podcast. A meditation on mothers and daughters, Weiners latest novel also explores class conflicts, identity issues and real estate dramas. Byrnes biography arrives at a time of rekindled interest. This is Katie Rundes first novel, and she writes with a fluid sensitivity to detail and mood, hitting tough questions hard and head-on, Judy Blundell writes in her review. APOLLOS ANGELS: A History of Ballet By Jennifer Homans. Again and again in this collection, her sixth, Limn confronts natures unwillingness to yield its secrets its one of her primary subjects. It is absorbing, lucid and true. Gregory CowlesSenior Editor, Books@GregoryCowles, TRACY FLICK CANT WIN, by Tom Perrotta. LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman Jr. PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder By Caroline Fraser.
NW By Zadie Smith. LIT: A Memoir By Mary Karr. LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression. She knows how to navigate a tangled tale and, he adds, takes pains to put her story in context., NERUDA ON THE PARK, by Cleyvis Natera. Translated by Len Rix. THE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science By Richard Holmes. A WORLD ON FIRE:Britains Crucial Role in the American Civil War By Amanda Foreman. THE GOOD SOLDIERS By David Finkel. The comments section is closed. EMPIRE OF COTTON: A Global History By Sven Beckert. THE SUMMER PLACE, by Jennifer Weiner. It is also riotously, delightfully queer., LUCKY TURTLE, by Bill Roorbach. THE SELLOUT By Paul Beatty. And listen to us on the Book Review podcast. THE LAY OF THE LAND By Richard Ford. This novel, the first romance of Emezis prolific and diverse career, features a widowed 29-year-old artist who unexpectedly finds love with an older chef facing an enduring sorrow of his own. Maybe its preposterous that she refuses, after all this time, to play by the rules of the game. THE TIGERS WIFE By Ta Obreht. HOMELAND ELEGIES By Ayad Akhtar. Translated by Anne Born. Hilary A. Halletts Inventing the It Girl tells the story of the early Hollywood pioneer Elinor Glyn. THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright. SNOW By Orhan Pamuk. THE GREAT BELIEVERS By Rebecca Makkai. MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL By Adam Higginbotham. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to, Nail-biting, Nerve-shredding Novels That Will Keep You Up at Night, Mysterious Disappearances, Jewel Heists and Creepy Babysitters, Barbecued, Battered, Boiled and Baked: Cookbooks for Summer, The Ultimate Summer Escape: Historical Fiction, Sweet, Sexy and Rebellious: Summers New Romance Novels, A Sense of Belonging: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Roll Out the Red Carpet for New Books About Stage and Screen, Summer Reads Guaranteed to Make Your Heart Thump and Your Skin Crawl. WASHINGTON BLACK By Esi Edugyan. Its protagonists reinvent themselves with astonishing ingenuity. MAN GONE DOWN By Michael Thomas. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. In middle age, Tracys optimism (or navet) is unchanged, our critic Molly Young writes. Happy reading. Anyone can read what you share. Help us choose the very best, based on this list of finalists. THEN WE CAME TO THE END By Joshua Ferris. Maybe its a credit to her integrity that she hasnt been squashed into submission. OUTLINE By Rachel Cusk. THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY: Childhood; Youth; Dependency By Tove Ditlevsen. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is an unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality, our reviewer, R.O. Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan quartet; the work of Fernanda Melchor, Dogs of Summer, by Andrea Abreu, translated by Julia Sanches. A MERCY By Toni Morrison. Brimming with keen observation, not just of the landscape but of dialect and class distinctions and all the tiny, vital particularities that make a place real in fiction, The Midcoast is an absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted dreams of a family trying to transcend it., TRANSLATING MYSELF AND OTHERS, by Jhumpa Lahiri. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW By Daniel Kahneman. REDEPLOYMENT By Phil Klay. PREP By Curtis Sittenfeld. Even if you dont know OHaras poetry (maybe start with Having a Coke With You), theres plenty to appreciate in this memoir. EDUCATED: A Memoir By Tara Westover. Wellss The Island of Doctor Moreau in the Yucatn Peninsula. Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. EVICTED: Poverty and Profit in the American City By Matthew Desmond. In the flashbacks to Samuels coming-of-age and then torturous captivity, Jennings renders a gritty and stripped-down portrait of the bleak family dynamics and social conditions that made him who he is., THE MIDCOAST, by Adam White. can decide that ice hockey is still in season (go, Rangers! New readers are walking into the hands of a skilled storyteller whos not afraid to take on a big, messy tale of love, privilege and abuse.. This chameleon of a book was inspired by the writers discovery of recorded interviews between the poet Frank OHara and her father, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight. The Oppenheimers dare you to love them and even when you dont, you cannot look away., THE IMMORTAL KING RAO, by Vauhini Vara. THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. Although Mounk is concerned about growing inequality and identity-based politics, he makes the case for optimism, advocating for diversity and inclusion. Everyone has their own idea of what it should look like. Even if she shouldnt have to play it., THE LATECOMER, by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Even if the game is rigged. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. 2018 was a good year for books. (Scribner, $27.) YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY. THE NEW YORKER STORIES By Ann Beattie. (Scribner, $26.99.) BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT By Maile Meloy. THE CLUB By Leo Damrosch. A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN: Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS By Marisha Pessl. LORDS OF FINANCE: The Bankers Who Broke the World By Liaquat Ahamed. So dive right in. Moreno-Garcia immerses readers in the rich world of 19th-century Mexico, exploring colonialism and resistance in a compulsively readable story of a womans coming-of-age. 2666 By Roberto Bolao. Fukuyama writes with a crystalline rationality, Joe Klein writes in a review that also considers Yascha Mounks The Great Experiment (below). In a mixed review, Michelle Ruiz singles out the familys indignant novelist matriarch for praise, as well as Weiners willingness to shun sentimental views of motherhood in favor of a more complicated ambivalence: Thats the sort of biting, delicious, terribly human revelation that makes a beach read, Ruiz writes. ON BEAUTY By Zadie Smith. Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, her feminist prequel to Jane Eyre. Seymour captures her childhood on the Caribbean island of Dominica and the rest of her often turbulent and challenging life. THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. The years best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/books/best-new-books.html, THE FACEMAKER: A Visionary Surgeons Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. The English novelist Pym (Excellent Women, Quartet in Autumn) went in and out of fashion during her lifetime, and since. Technically, summer doesnt begin for another week and a half. THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul By Patrick French.
The second is the emotional trip. What better way to enhance your trip to Morocco than by seeing it through the experienced eyes of Paul Bowles, and what better opportunity to understand the origins of modern Italy than by reading Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas The Leopard? This week we bring you a beach bags worth of recommended titles, from Ada Limns smart new poetry collection to Candice Millards riveting true adventure tale about the 19th-century search for the source of the Nile, plus eight novels to suit any mood, from romance to horror to climate dystopia. 11/22/63 By Stephen King. SING, UNBURIED, SING By Jesmyn Ward. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. (Hitchcock later made it into a movie, starring Gregory Peck.). (Minotaur, $27.99.) THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By Colson Whitehead. On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this years outstanding fiction and nonfiction. It cures your boredom, soothes your anxiety and provides stability and constancy. But the ambitious scope and the exploration of race, class, politics, real estate and the art world make this 448-page blockbuster a story for all seasons. THE ASSASSINS GATE: America in Iraq By George Packer. Then there is travel writing itself. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE By Anthony Doerr. Translated by David McKay. What follows is a veritable trip through the demimonde, populated with the idle, dangerous rich and the desperate, hungry poor, all with motive and means to kill, Sarah Weinman writes in her latest crime column. GRANT By Ron Chernow. Hermione Lees vivid and authoritative biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, by Paula Byrne, and I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys, by Miranda Seymour. THE DOOR By Magda Szabo. NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF By Julian Barnes. By Linda Colley. Translated by Ann Goldstein. Love Medicine, Louise Erdrichs polyphonic debut novel about the lives of Native American families in Minnesota and North Dakota, Night of the Living Rez: Stories, by Morgan Talty. ), then surely we book lovers can cheat a little in the other direction and declare an early start to summer reading. George Dawes Greens new novel hammers home the ugliness undergirding the citys flowery, fashionable beauty. THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross. ARGUABLY: Essays By Christopher Hitchens. Largely to blame is the late King Rao, a Dalit Indian businessman whose rapacious rise and disastrous legacy are recounted by his daughter. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Mine was formed at the end of a holiday weekend in middle school in the 1970s, when my friend Michelle and I pretzeled ourselves into her parents station wagon for the long, dull ride to New York from Massachusetts. BRING UP THE BODIES By Hilary Mantel. Fans of Roorbachs prolific work will appreciate his signature lyricism and sense of place, his sweeping narrative, humor and romance, Gregory Brown writes, reviewing the book alongside two other coming-of-age novels. From a wildfire photographer to a teenage misanthrope, these authors reflect on pain, courage and belonging. Translated by Sam Taylor. Welcome to Sullivans, a Chicago bar and restaurant run by a family (the Sullivans, naturally) where secrets, loyalties, resentments, baseball and beer are part of the DNA. Paris Is Burning, the 1991 documentary about the groundbreaking ballroom drag scene in New York City, How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn, by Nicole Pasulka. Mounk argues persuasively that progress has been made, Joe Klein writes in his review. CLEOPATRA: A Life By Stacy Schiff. White Lotus, Mike Whites satire for HBO about the wealthy guests and beleaguered staff at an elite Hawaiian resort; The Brilliant Abyss, Helen Scaless book about life in the deep ocean, The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach, by Sarah Stodola. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH By Jhumpa Lahiri. Kwon, writes. FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes By Stephen Sondheim. But a sense of helplessness is essential to the enemies of liberalism. SWAMPLANDIA! Translated by Deborah Smith. SELECTED STORIES By William Trevor. Set in the wake of the 2016 election, Closes propulsive and funny novel shows how politics are always close to home. In Rundes heartfelt and bittersweetly funny debut, a family in New Jersey braces for the death of their beloved father, who has an aggressive form of brain cancer. Terrence Malicks film The Thin Red Line; a lingering sense of existential dread and confusion, The Twilight World, by the filmmaker Werner Herzog, translated by Michael Hofmann. When I visit London and find myself at a fancy dinner party full of intellectually intimidating mansplainers, for instance, I relax by imagining Im in the middle of a Jane Austen novel. https://www.nytimes.com/article/top-book-lists.html. His debut collection, full of surprising drama, offers a fresh view of the precarious lives of marginalized people in the 21st century. We asked readers to nominate their favorite books published in the past 125 years. Translated by Adrian Nathan West.
AMERICANAH By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. By Karen Russell. But over the years, that list has taken many different names and forms. THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: Maturity, Old Age By Elena Ferrante. If you do it right, you will get off the plane so enamored of your book that youll want to keep reading in the customs line, and then continue while waiting for your luggage, and then in the hotel later to help you calm down before going to sleep. THE PERFECT NANNY By Leila Slimani. (Algonquin, $27.95.) Nateras style is refreshingly direct and declarative, and at its best, this approach feels confident and sharp, a mirror capturing the bleak comedies of life in a threatened community, Mia Alvar writes in her review. This dance between the personal and the political, and the way the latter impacts the former, is the most interesting thematic element of the book, Liz Moore writes in her review. Reading that book in that car at that time transformed one of the worst parts of traveling the actual traveling into an interlude of delight.
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