Books
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Anna Quindlen Is Back, With Four Seasons of Loss and Survival
In her new novel, “After Annie,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how a family pieces itself back together after monumental…
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Barbra Streisand’s Memoir Makes for 48 Vivid, Verklempt Listening Hours
In Streisand’s new audiobook recording for her chatty, brick-size memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” the superlative diva adds a little…
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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A Ravenous Woman? Perish the Thought!
Lottie Hazell’s debut novel, “Piglet,” is a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the…
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Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). It could only be in fantasy scenarios. Like everyone else, my…
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The Affair That Split New York High Society
STRONG PASSIONS: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York, by Barbara Weisberg The touch of a hand from two centuries…
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A Clever, Joyless Look at the ‘Commonplace Horror’ of Marriage
Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”
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A Love Song to His Roots
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.
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Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are…
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How to Speak New York
LANGUAGE CITY: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, by Ross Perlin “Up on the sixth floor…