New York Times: Books
- Why the New York Public Library Has 7 Floors of Stacks With No Books
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:00 AMIn Midtown Manhattan, space is prized. But stacks at the library’s main branch are empty because officials say the space cannot protect irreplaceable books from the elements and theft.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fiction: An American Pilot, a Muslim Teenager and a Talking Dog All Caught in an Absurd War
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AM“Red Birds,” a new novel by the Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif, satirizes America’s never-ending military conflicts in the Middle East.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fiction: Here Come the Brides: A Free-Spirited Fictional Wedding
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:15 PMLeah Hager Cohen’s novel “Strangers and Cousins” uses a vibrant, anarchic family wedding to explore the way change can be both celebrated and feared.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letters to the Editor: Was Varian Fry Gay — and Should It Matter? Readers Respond
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 10:21 AMThe son of Varian Fry, and several others, weigh in on Cynthia Ozick’s review of Julie Orringer’s novel “The Flight Portfolio.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New in Paperback: ‘Florida,’ ‘Robin’
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 12:24 PMSix new paperbacks to check out this week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Book Review Podcast: Harper Lee’s Unwritten True-Crime Book
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 12:30 PMCasey Cep discusses “Furious Hours,” and Eliza Griswold talks about “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nonfiction: A Filipino-American Memoir of Racism, Abuse and Heartbreak
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 03:56 PMGrace Talusan’s “The Body Papers” traces the harrowing challenges she’s faced in both the public and private spheres.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nonfiction: The Art Market Is Exploding. This Book Profiles the Dealers Who Lit the Fuse.
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 11:53 AMA dishy look at the art world’s most powerful gallerists — including Larry Gagosian and David Zwirner — “Boom,” by Michael Shnayerson, recounts how artworks became multimillion-dollar commodities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Shortlist: Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 02:27 PMFour reminiscences of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, from farming communities in California and South Dakota to the suburbs of New York.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Queer Coffee Table: 10 L.G.B.T.Q. Books to Usher In World Pride
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 05:00 AMVisual monographs commemorating a culture of resistance and resilience on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion.
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- Nonfiction: The First Presidential Impeachment
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AMBrenda Wineapple’s “The Impeachers” is a revealing history of the trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti)
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AMThe “Silence of the Lambs” author Thomas Harris, overshadowed by the cannibal he invented, has kept a low profile for over 40 years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Knopf Fires High-Profile Editor Over Policy Breach
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 07:29 PMThe publishing house dismissed Gary Fisketjon, a longtime editor who worked with such literary stars as Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard and Cormac McCarthy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From the Grand Canyon to the Moon
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:31 AMA selection of recent visual books; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Book Entry: Review: ‘Power Trip’ Ably Guides Us Through the History of Energy
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 02:20 PMMichael E. Webber’s new book examines humanity’s relationship to energy over time and how each transition affected not just what we produce but how we live.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fiction: Love at First Sight and Other Disasters: Stories From Karen Russell
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMIn “Orange World,” surrealism is grounded in the real anxieties of our age.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Book Clubs Get Especially Clubby
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 04:46 PMEvery age begets its era-specific book clubs. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that ours features more and more niche, insider gatherings. One for Political Junkies? Check. Thriller writers? Check. Proust lovers? Check.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Crime: Video Gaming Turns Murderous, Even if You Play by the Rules
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 12:44 PMMarilyn Stasio’s Crime column enters a dangerous online world, then jumps to a very real drug gang, a hit man in a hospital and a dog with a death sentence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nonfiction: The World According to John Waters, as Interpreted by Alan Cumming
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 05:00 AMThe septuagenarian filmmaker’s latest collection of essays, “Mr. Know-It-All,” is just what its subtitle promises: “The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Review: An Arch, Feminist Fairy Tale
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 07:00 AMA Shirley Jackson novel from 1962 is the basis for this fable, directed by Stacie Passon, in which the men ruin the day.
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- Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti)
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 05:00 AMThe “Silence of the Lambs” author Thomas Harris, overshadowed by the cannibal he invented, has kept a low profile for over 40 years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels. But His True Subject Was Moral Weakness.
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 03:54 PMIn his two World War II novels of the 1970s, Wouk — who died this week — brought psychological insight to genocide, its perpetrators and bystanders. Adelle Waldman explains.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nonfiction: Singing the Praises of ‘Big Business’
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:57 PMTyler Cowen’s new book delivers a “love letter” to capitalism, a system he argues is better than all the rest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Herman Wouk, Perennially Best-Selling Author, Dies at 103
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 03:02 PMHis critics could be brutal, but he enthralled millions of readers with novels like “The Winds of War,” “The Caine Mutiny” and “Marjorie Morningstar.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nonfiction: What to Do When You’re a Country in Crisis
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 03:20 PMIn “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond asks whether countries can draw lessons from how individuals confront personal difficulties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fiction: ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 03:33 PMIn Molly Dektar’s debut, a young woman falls in with a cult of eco-terrorists.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside the List: Did Harper Lee, Who Died in 2016, Leave Behind a True-Crime Manuscript?
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 04:52 PMThat’s what Casey Cep tries to figure out in “Furious Hours,” which enters the nonfiction best-seller list this week at No. 6.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 02:13 PMSuggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Children’s Books: Bringing Favorite Fairy Tales Up to Date
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 02:36 PMThese new takes on beloved old stories deliver empowered princesses and racial diversity while staying true to the genre’s stark, dangerous heart.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - By the Book: By the Book: Ani DiFranco
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 11:36 AMThe singer-songwriter, whose new memoir is “No Walls and the Recurring Dream,” says her shelves contain “poetry for when my mind is spinning” and “a bunch of learn-how-to-meditate books that don’t seem to be helping.”
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