Newly Published from Young Adult Novels to Political Tumult in Translation

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Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One

“There has to be chemistry,” says the writer and prolific translator, whose second book will come out next year. “You don’t need prior knowledge of, say, Iceland or Icelandic in order to appreciate Victoria Cribb’s translation of Sjón.” Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Building Something Together: Translators Discuss Their Art

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Exit Hector Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the Iliad Anew

Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators. Emily Wilson | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

The Philosophers Who Used Word Puzzles to Understand the World

“A Terribly Serious Adventure,” by Nikhil Krishnan, brings to life the 20th-century Oxford thinkers whose methods of linguistic analysis were deeply influential and vigorously debated. Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Translating Tolstoy While Inciting Revolution

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. Jennifer Wilson | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Looking Back on a Formative Friendship With Compassion

In her new novel, “The Rachel Incident,” Caroline O’Donoghue examines the bond between two young booksellers in Ireland. Hamilton Cain | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Of Love Letters Irishmen and Belonging

Three new novels hold the keys to real and imagined kingdoms. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before Its Published

The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth Harris | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Becoming Self-Made Stars in a Secular Age

In a breezy new history of personal branding, Tara Isabella Burton comes face to face with Oscar Wilde, Frederick Douglass, Kim Kardashian and more. Alexandra Jacobs | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

New England Island Life Meets Spy Thriller? Look No Further.

In “The Beach at Summerly,” Beatriz Williams weaves two standbys of summer fiction into one escapist story. Leigh Haber | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

What Is Love? For This Fractured Family the Answer Is Not So Clear.

In Thao Thai’s debut novel, “Banyan Moon,” the contentious relationship between a mother and daughter comes to a head when their family’s beloved matriarch dies. Kayla Maiuri | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

How Did a $2 Billion Trove of Art End Up in a Random Attic in France?

In a new book, Michael Finkel tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, “perhaps the most successful and prolific art thief who has ever lived.” Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Newly Published From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class

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Bookforum is Returning Months After its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World

The literary magazine will be back in print in August, with a new publishing partner: The Nation. BY KATE DWYER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Going Bankrupt in the Name of Efficiency

Two new books offer harsh assessments of private equity firms that specializes in buying up companies only to saddle them with debt and squeeze them for profits. BY JENNIFER SZALAI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield. BY A.O. SCOTT | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Sex Identity and the Eternal Anxieties of Growing Up

In Haley Jakobson’s compassionate debut novel, “Old Enough,” a college sophomore must navigate her first steps into young adulthood while unpacking the trauma of past abuse. BY SOPHIE WARD | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In Clémence Michallons Debut a Serial Killer Deceives an Entire Town

“The Quiet Tenant” offers multiple perspectives on a monster who keeps his victim and his young daughter under the same roof. BY JAC JEMC | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

On Being Black and American Overseas

In “Beyond the Shores,” the historian Tamara J. Walker explores the lives of African Americans drawn to other countries by pleasure, employment and war. BY CHAD WILLIAMS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Saskia Hamilton Poet Who Edited Another Poets Letters Dies at 56

In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the correspondence between the poet Robert Lowell and the writer Elizabeth Hardwick. BY NEIL GENZLINGER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

A Cult Hiding in Plain Sight Amid the New York Brownstones

In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists, patients and lovers. BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Jezebels Jazz and Rijsttafel

An editor recommends old and new books. BY JOUMANA KHATIB | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Murders Curses and the Greatest Horror Movie of All Time

The Golden Age of Hollywood — its patina darkened by evil — comes alive in Craig Russell’s new novel, “The Devil’s Playground.” BY DANIELLE TRUSSONI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Coming of Age in the Sunshine State

Before Disney arrived, Central Florida was the hub of the citrus industry. Anne Hull takes us there in her memoir, “Through the Groves.” BY CARL HIAASEN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Recommended reading from the Book Review, including stories by K-Ming Chang, Heather Radke on butts and more. BY SHREYA CHATTOPADHYAY | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Steph Catudals Memoir Is Actually Two Books Woven Together

When her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, the author was haunted by a long-ago loss — one she’d already written about. BY ELISABETH EGAN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Three Fiction Debuts Examine the Steep Cost of Belonging

From apartheid South Africa to North Korea to the stage of the New York City Ballet, the characters in these three new books imagine themselves in lives other than their own.

BY LAURA WARRELL | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Girls to the Front!

In “Young and Restless,” Mattie Kahn returns young women and girls to their rightful role in the history books: as forces for change.

BY GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough

In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.

BY ELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

When Truth No Longer Counts, How Does a Memoirist Tell Her Story?

This is the question at the heart of “To Name the Bigger Lie,” by Sarah Viren, which tries to make sense of two disturbing episodes from her life in the context of a culture where truth itself is increasingly in dispute.

BY CLAIRE DEDERER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

With Hollywood Change Stagnating, a Call to ‘Burn It Down’

The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.

BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

People We Meet on Vacation

In her debut novel, “You Can’t Stay Here Forever,” Katherine Lin follows a young widow and her best friend to the French Riviera.

BY MICHELLE RUIZ | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer

Biographies of Anna May Wong and Alice Marble, a deep-sea exploration, the race to the North Pole: Here’s what to watch for this season.

BY JOUMANA KHATIB AND NEIMA JAHROMI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Counting on Conversation

Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation.

BY AMY ALZNAUER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Three Books That Make Tess Gunty Angry

“So many come to mind,” says the author, whose novel “The Rabbit Hutch” won a National Book Award last year and will be out in paperback this month. “I guess I’m often furious?”

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When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past

The new book by the political scientist Patrick J. Deneen proposes to replace the country’s “invasive progressive tyranny” with conservative rule in the name of the “common good.”

BY JENNIFER SZALAI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare

In the “brutally honest” memoir “Pageboy,” the actor recounts the fears and obstacles to gender transition, and the hard-won happiness that’s followed.

BY GINA CHUA | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

A ‘Lucky Child’ Writes His Way From Nigeria to the Global Stage

With a first novel that chronicles a love affair between two young men, 23-year-old Ani Kayode Somtochukwu asserts a commitment to “queer resistance.”

BY ELIZABETH A. HARRIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

How Well Do You Know Popular Novels for Summer Reading?

Looking for an entertaining book to take on vacation with you? This quiz has suggestions.

BY J. D. BIERSDORFER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

A Hijacked Plane, a Childhood Trauma Long Repressed

In a new memoir, the historian Martha Hodes explores her recollections of being held hostage on an airplane in 1970.

BY RUTH MARGALIT | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

When Society Collapses, These Traders Win Big

In “Chaos Kings,” Scott Patterson profiles the financiers who build their portfolios around daily losses, and — when disaster strikes — seismic gains.

BY MARIE SOLIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In Richard Ford’s New Novel, One More Trip for Old Times’ Sake

“Be Mine” is the fifth book featuring Ford’s keen observer of American life, Frank Bascombe.

BY DWIGHT GARNER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Lecher Actress Victim Spy

In “Lucky Dogs,” Helen Schulman spins a #MeToo case into an irreverent but surprisingly sympathetic look at two women on opposite sides of a sexual assault scandal.

BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

After Walking Offstage, a Concert Pianist Changes Her Tune

An artist refashions herself amid personal and global crises in Deborah Levy’s new novel, “August Blue.”

BY CORINNA DA FONSECA-WOLLHEIM | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Larking, Library Sales and Yellow Silk Pajamas

An editor recommends old and new books.

BY TINA JORDAN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Reconsidering the Reputation of a Magnet for Roman Scandal

In “Messalina,” Honor Cargill-Martin looks at the limited evidence with empathy, arguing that a notorious empress was also a canny politician.

BY TIMOTHY FARRINGTON | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Isabel Allende Has a Message: History Repeats Itself

In her new novel, “The Wind Knows My Name,” the prolific author introduces characters who narrowly survive real-life events.

BY LAUREN FOX | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Group Challenges Arkansas Law That Would Criminalize Access to Some Books

A lawsuit says the edict “forces bookstores and libraries to self-censor in a way that is antithetical to their core purposes.”

BY ELIZABETH A. HARRIS AND ALEXANDRA ALTER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Newly Published, From Graphic Novels to Hot Dogs

A selection of recently published books.

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