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6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Credit Emily Henry on Writing Best-Sellers Without Tours and TikTok
The author of “Funny Story” churned out five consecutive No. 1 best-sellers without leaving her comfort zone. How did she pull it off?
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A Spin Doctor to the Rich and Corrupt Spills His Secrets
In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.
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Hoot, Howl and Sneeze: 6 Picture Books for Maximum Read-Aloud Joy
From silly rhymes to lively sound effects to stealthily-building suspense, these old standbys and new classics have something for everyone.
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The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters.
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CreditPablo Amargo Crime & Mystery NovelsNew novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a memoir by a “hacktivist” member of Anonymous — and more.
CreditThe New York Times Gabrielle Zevin Loves Edith Wharton, but Not ‘Ethan Frome’
“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in paperback.
CreditRebecca Clarke By the Book6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Darrin Bell, Maggie Smith, David Friend and more.
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Credit Paperback RowJailhouse Correspondence Gives Bernie Madoff the ‘Final Word’
The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
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More in Books of The Times ›Jailhouse Correspondence Gives Bernie Madoff the ‘Final Word’
The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
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CreditRuby Washington/The New York Times Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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CreditNational Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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CreditPavel Popov Anthony Fauci, a Hero to Some and a Villain to Others, Keeps His Cool
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health crises: AIDS and Covid-19.
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CreditChip Somodevilla/Getty Images Millions of Americans Watched ‘The Apprentice.’ Now We Are Living It.
As a new book by Ramin Setoodeh shows, Donald Trump brought the vulgar theatrics he honed on TV to his life in politics.
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4 Great Fictional Detectives
The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters.
By Sarah Weinman
2 Books to Make You Love Karaoke, or at Least Respect It
In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.
The History of Synchronized Swimming Is More Than Esther Williams
In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.
By Jennifer Schuessler
FictionFirst the Water Turned Red, Then a Toxic Wind Began to Blow
In Fernanda Trías’s novel “Pink Slime,” one woman holds out in her town after an environmental disaster, trapped in a limbo of indecision.
By Lydia Millet
Paperback Row6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Darrin Bell, Maggie Smith, David Friend and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Headshot,’ by Rita Bullwinkel
Bullwinkel’s debut novel sheds light on the culture of youth women’s boxing through an ensemble cast of complicated characters. It packs a punch.
FictionGhosts, Haunted Dreams and the Devil Himself in 4 New Horror Books
Our columnist reviews June’s horror releases.
By Gabino Iglesias
He Illustrated the ‘Harry Potter’ Cover for $650. It Just Sold for $1.92 Million.
The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore.
By John Yoon
30 L.G.B.T.Q. Artists Look Back on the Pleasures and Pain of Being 30
For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.
By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan
nonfictionA.I. Will Fix the World. The Catch? Robots in Your Veins.
In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).
By Nathaniel Rich
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