These Two Books Ask, Was the Movie Better?

The French novel that was adapted into “Vertigo”; Cameron Crowe’s nonfiction account of a year inside a public high school.

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7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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19 New Books Coming in September

New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more.

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New York Is Huge. These Books Help Cut It Down to Size.

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Sometimes Protest Movements Are a Slow, Slow Burn

In “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause,” Benjamin Nathans takes stock of the generation of dissidents who helped loosen the bonds of tyranny in the Soviet Union.

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Along U.S. Route 144, Scenes of the Demoralizing American Grind

In “Orange Blossom Trail,” the photographer Joshua Lutz and the author George Saunders pay tribute to the hard living across one stretch of American highway.

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Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘My Brilliant Friend’

The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too.

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The Children’s Fantasy Novel That Flew Off Britain’s Shelves

“Impossible Creatures” has prompted comparisons to Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman, but action, not awe, is Katherine Rundell’s strong suit.

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He Raps About Kids’ Books and Grammar, and He Has Fans

Faced with a roomful of bored students, Jacob Mitchell found a way to make adverbs fun. Now his classroom is global.

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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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Her Husband Died, Then Her Mother. Northern Ireland Offered Solace.

Rosie Schaap’s new memoir, “The Slow Road North,” recalls her grief and her subsequent move out of Brooklyn.

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A Modern Whodunit Set Among Social Media’s Hall of Mirrors

“Swallow the Ghost,” by Eugenie Montague, is an up-to-the-minute mystery that defies convention.

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Brooklyn? Bah. Manhattan? Meh. A New Book Calls the Bronx the City’s Best Borough.

Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.

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Two Sisters Take On the 20th Century, With Ghosts in Tow

A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.

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How Does a Single Water Droplet Connect People Across Centuries?

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.

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A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt

In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.

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The Secret to Tom Wolfe’s Irresistible Snap, Crackle and Pop

How the author of “The Right Stuff,” “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” and other classics turned sociology into art.

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Betty A. Prashker, Book Publishing Pioneer, Is Dead at 99

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for other women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.

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His Trilogy Explored the Nazi Era. Now He Looks at the People Behind It.

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.

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Family Is a Lot of Trouble in August’s Graphic Novels

Generational connections — and divides — abound in four new volumes that take vastly different approaches to storytelling.

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The End-of-Summer Reading Roundup

Fall is on the horizon. Here are the books that have been keeping us company lately.

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6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

Including titles by Brando Skyhorse, Barack Obama, Costica Bradatan and more.

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At 23, She Had a Termination. 55 Years Later, She’s Ready to Write About It.

In 1969, Honor Moore was granted an abortion by a Connecticut psychiatrist, and went on with her life. In 2024, she reckons with the fallout.

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Talent, Glamour, Money, Fraud: Welcome to the Art World

A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.

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Read Your Way Around Denver

Much of Colorado’s literature is about the flow of people whose imaginations, like the novelist Peter Heller’s, were ignited by myths of unbridled freedom. He recommends some favorites.

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The Author of ‘Red, White and Royal Blue’ Is Back, With More Spice and No Shame

Casey McQuiston’s debut proved that queer romance can be a hit. In their latest novel, “The Pairing,” sex doesn’t only sell; it’s also “beautiful and really soul affirming.”

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Alexander Waugh, Literary Scion of a Literary Dynasty, Dies at 60

The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and historian.

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I Thought I Disliked These Authors. I Was Happy to Be Wrong.

Italo Calvino? Not so bad! May Sarton? Pretty good!

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From Harlem to Selma to Paris, James Baldwin’s Life in Pictures

An exploration of the long arc of Baldwin’s career, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the author of “Giovanni’s Room” and “The Fire Next Time.”

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Deborah Harkness Has Never Read Jane Austen. Really.

‘By admitting that, I fear I will be drummed out of the Novelists’ Corps,’ she says. ‘The Black Bird Oracle,’ the latest in her best-selling ‘All Souls’ series, is just out.

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