Known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, the author talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/books/jeff-vandermeer-southern-reach-absolution.html
The brightest minds explore the issue at every level, from the levers that control inflation to the best way to achieve work-life balance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/books/review/economics-business-books.html
In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/books/review/simon-parkin-the-forbifdden-garden.html
With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/books/review/claud-cockburn-biography.html
The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/style/literary-new-york-feeld-dating-app.html
The “One Tree Hill” actor has written a memoir of the decade she spent beholden to the Big House Family — and her escape.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/books/review/bethany-joy-lenz-dinner-for-vampires.html
The author’s Southern Reach trilogy, which began with “Annihilation” in 2014, now has a fourth installment, a prequel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/books/review/jeff-vandermeer-absolution.html
Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the movement that took down Roe to the human stories of women who had abortions, and those who were denied.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/books/review/abortion-books-reproductive-rights.html
Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/books/review/nick-harkaway-karlas-choice-le-carre.html
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/books/review/patriot-alexei-navalny.html
Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/arts/real-pain-eisenberg-holocaust-third-generation.html
In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/books/booksupdate/aleksei-navalny-memoir-prison-diaries.html
Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/books/review/andre-aciman-roman-year.html
When he was a teenager, Aciman’s family was turned out of Egypt and landed in Italy. In a beguiling new memoir, “Roman Year,” he revisits a lost era.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/books/andre-aciman-italy-memoir-roman-year.html
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/books/bram-stoker-gibbet-hill-dublin.html
Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/books/review/the-absinthe-forger-evan-rail.html
Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
A haunted author; haunted dolls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/books/read-like-wind-recommendations.html
A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/books/review/savings-and-trust-justene-hill-edwards.html
From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/books/review/sonny-boy-al-pacino.html
In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/books/review/no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-sarah-labrie.html
Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/books/booksupdate/iris-jamahl-dunkle-sanora-babb-.html
The guitarist and drummer formed the core of the powerhouse band. After Eddie died of cancer in 2020, Alex stayed quiet, but he’s breaking his silence in a new book.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/arts/music/alex-van-halen-eddie-van-halen-brothers-book.html
A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/books/review/j-g-ballard-koren-shadmi.html
“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/books/review/new-books-recommendations.html
His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/arts/music/randy-newman-biography.html
Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/books/review/new-psychological-thrillers.html
Business memoirs are at hand as he navigates a new role as the founder of a startup to “democratize storytelling.” Meanwhile he has co-written “We Are Free, You & Me,” an illustrated book...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/books/review/colin-kaepernick-we-are-free-you-and-me.html
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/books/tiktok-bytedance-8th-note-press-print.html
Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.