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12 New Books We Recommend This Week

What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal?

Joy Harjo Is Named U.S. Poet Laureate for a Second Term

What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal?

In This Creepy New Novel, the Toys Are Watching Us

This Book Will Take You to Beautiful Places With Palm Trees

With Mothers and Daughters, It’s Always Complicated

Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’

In the Kitchen and on the Best-Seller List, Young Cooks Take the Lead

Alaska School District Votes Out ‘Catch-22,’ ‘Gatsby’ and Other Classics

What the History Books Won’t Tell You About George Washington

Barbara Ehrenreich Contains Multitudes. They’re All Ticked Off.

Eavan Boland, ‘Disruptive’ Irish Poet, Is Dead at 75

The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question

‘This Is How It Is Now’: Ramona Quimby, Meet Ryan Hart

‘The Celestial Hunter,’ by Roberto Calasso: An Excerpt

‘Little Family,’ by Ishmael Beah: An Excerpt

Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir

A ‘Little Family’ Against the World

A Writer Pursues His Subjects as a Hunter Stalks His Prey

This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City

When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory

A Novel Imagines the Life of the Man Who Discovered Camus

New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’

When Airplanes and Zeppelins Competed to Conquer the Skies

How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger?

John Grisham Returns to Camino Island, This Time in Hurricane Season

A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel

Amid Family Upheaval, a Heroine Finds Comfort in the Concrete

A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice in 19th-Century Martha’s Vineyard

Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme?

The Shocks and Aftershocks of the Great Alaska Quake of 1964

What Is a Conservative? And Other Letters to the Editor

A Dark Debut Propels a Dutch Writer to Reluctant Fame

Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France

New in Paperback: ‘Running to the Edge’ and ‘The Queen’

11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Madeleine Albright Out of Power

What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots?

Home Is Where Her Story Was. Leaving Helped Her Find It.

What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works

Books You Can Read in a Day

The Women Doctors Who Fought to Serve in World War I

Simplify Even More? Yes, It’s Possible

On Earth Day, a Cartoonist Glances Back at Rachel Carson’s Classic

Cheryl A. Wall, 71, Dies; Champion of Black Literary Women

Deirdre Bair, Beckett and Beauvoir Biographer, Dies at 84

Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is?

‘The Moment of Tenderness,’ by Madeleine L’Engle: An Excerpt

‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ by Souvankham Thammavongsa: An Excerpt