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Book Review: ‘Rabbit, Fox, Tar,’ by P.C. Verrone
In “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” a white neighborhood’s local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.
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Book Review: ‘Girl’s Girl,’ by Sonia Feldman
In Sonia Feldman’s novel, “Girl’s Girl,” the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.
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Book Review: ‘Sublimation,’ by Isabel J. Kim
In her book “Sublimation,” Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.
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Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Transcription,’ by Ben Lerner
Lerner’s new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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Book Club: Read ‘Yesteryear,’ by Caro Claire Burke, With the Book Review
In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.
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Book Review: ‘Found Sound,’ by Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek, and ‘Stream,’ by Aida Salazar
Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek’s “Found Sound” and Aida Salazar’s “Stream” send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.
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Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Veronica Roth on Her Favorite Books and Her New Novel, ‘Seek the Traitor’s Son’
“I love a clever puppet master,” says the author of the Divergent series and the new “Seek the Traitor’s Son.” Her favorite hero? Antigone.
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The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
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The Novels Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer
New fiction from Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and much more.
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Book Review: ‘Stalin’s Apostles,’ by Antonia Senior
A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.
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Poetry Review: ‘Killing Spree,’ by Jorie Graham
In “Killing Spree,” Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.
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Book Review: ‘Babylon, South Dakota,’ by Tom Lin
Tom Lin’s new novel, “Babylon, South Dakota,” reimagines the western with surreal elements.
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Book Review: ‘The Vivisectors,’ by Missouri Williams
The stoic narrator of “The Vivisectors” befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.
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Book Review: ‘Trudeau & Doonesbury,’ by Joshua Kendall
A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.
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Book Review: ‘America, U.S.A.,’ by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
In “America, U.S.A.,” Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.
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How Marilyn Monroe Gave a Smart Gloss to Her Image
It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she…
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Summer’s Best Beach Reads
If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you’ll need.
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Submit Your Summer Reading Bucket List
Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year’s prize.
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What to Read This Summer: NYT Reading Bucket List
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
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New Picture Book Biographies of Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage
As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.
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Book Review: ‘The Land and Its People,’ by David Sedaris
In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.
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Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Gothic Fantasy Novels Filled With Dark Magic
The best-selling author Rachel Gillig recommends books that bring the haunted hallmarks of Gothic fiction into enchanted settings.
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Was a Story That Just Won a Literary Prize A.I.-Generated?
A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren’t all so sure.
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International Booker Prize 2026: ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ is First Winner Originally Written in Mandarin
“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
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Book Review: ‘On Witness and Respair,’ by Jesmyn Ward
The two-time National Book Award winner collects essays, profiles and appreciations in a new book, “On Witness and Respair.”
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Children of Radicals Write to Understand Their Legacies
Zayd Ayers Dohrn and Harriet Clark on activism, violence, guilt and trying to make sense of their “incomprehensible” early days.
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Book Review: ‘Dog Days,’ by Emily LaBarge
In her ingenious “Dog Days,” Emily LaBarge writes about a terrifying event without resorting to “the trauma plot.”
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Book Review: ‘Glyph,’ by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.
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Book Review: ‘Keeper of My Kin,’ by Ada Ferrer
A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.
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Book Review: ‘Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young,’ by Zayd Ayers Dohrn
Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.
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Do You Even Thinketh, Bro?
Lots of guys are recommending “As a Man Thinketh” for self-improvement. That’s not what it gave me.