A Tale of Four Troubled and Talented Sisters, Told With Irish Flair
There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
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“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.
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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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Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book
Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.
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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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Best-Seller Lists: April 21, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
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Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World
A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”
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She Lied, Cheated and Stole. Then She Wrote a Book About It.
In her buzzy memoir, “Sociopath,” Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the condition.
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A Gender Theorist Who Just Wants Everyone to Get Along
Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
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A Warhol Superstar, but Never a Star
Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”
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Greg Cowles, the poetry editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends four books that are perfect for National Poetry Month.
By Greg Cowles, Karen Hanley and Claire Hogan
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
By Alexandra Alter
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
By Lynn Steger Strong
Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.
By Joshua Barone
“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.
By Caoilinn Hughes
This month’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to uncover novels written for middle-grade readers.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
By Alice Winn
The author’s new memoir, “Knife,” addresses the attack that maimed him in 2022, and pays tribute to the wife who saw him through. “I wanted to write a book which was about both love and hatred — one overcoming the other,” he says.
By Sarah Lyall
A tax manifesto by Edmund Wilson and a money-themed story collection.
These days, readings in the city can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as a trendy restaurant.
By Kate Dwyer
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