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An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Pierre-Antoine Louis BLACK BOY JOY17 Stories Celebrating Black BoyhoodEdited…
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
From the beach (Miranda Cowley Heller’s “The Paper Palace,” Beck Dorey-Stein’s “Rock the Boat”) to the woods (Philip D’Anieri’s “The Appalachian Trail”) to the wonders…
New & Noteworthy, From Horse Girls to an E.R. Doctor’s View of Covid
Recent titles of note: YEAR OF PLAGUES: A Memoir of 2020, by Fred D’Aguiar. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) In a year of public health crises and widespread…
Finding the ‘Believers’ Who Will Remake a Damaged Earth
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Gretel Ehrlich BELIEVERSMaking a Life at the End of…
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is your summer reading sorted
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist has just been announced, and it might just inspire which book you pick up next. What’s on your summer reading…
‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places…
The Promise and Tragedy of a Utopian Community, as Seen by One of Its Own
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Amy Waldman BETTER TO HAVE GONE Love, Death, and…
New in Paperback: ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Love After Love’
By Jennifer Krauss MIGRATIONS, by Charlotte McConaghy. (Flatiron, 288 pp., $16.99.) “Sea yarns that serve as voyages of self-discovery have been the exclusive literary domain…
On the Children’s Series Best-Seller List, the Name of the Game Is Fantasy
By Elisabeth Egan SERIAL PILLAR For readers of a certain age, there are few experiences more rewarding than watching a young bookworm get wrapped up…