Like a fairy tale, the novel takes a winding road and doesn’t rush to a finish. This luminous memoir records her self-discovery and political awakening.
In Patchett’s luminous new novel, an orphaned brother and sister grapple with love, loss and family history after their wicked stepmother banishes them from the family home. A stringent, cleareyed memoir by a man who served more than 40 years of solitary confinement at Angola for a murder he did not commit. Brown’s poetry catalogs injuries past and present, personal and national, in a country where blackness is akin to illness. The Irish writer’s latest novel features two aging Beckettian drug smugglers looking back on their battered lives as they pass the time in a seedy Spanish port. A collection of stories that probe the fleeting connections of characters struggling to adjust to the rush of time. Novelists rarely depict mothers eager to leave their babies, and it’s a treat to see how lovingly, even joyfully, Woodson embraces her young heroine’s desires.
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Jacob’s graphic memoir is focused on what it means to be a person of color in America. A dagger indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. Among the book’s other pleasures, Ciment knowingly but matter-of-factly depicts class distinctions. Even as he reckons seriously with our state of affairs, Brown demonstrates a spirit of semantic play. Okrent focuses on eugenics, which argued that letting in people of certain nationalities and races would harm America’s gene pool. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. Cari Vander Yacht 100 Notable Books of 2019
Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier. The Mastermind: Drugs. Never before has Lerner’s fine ethnographic attunement been so joyously indulged, or the bubblicious texture of late Clintonism been so lovingly evoked. by Delia Owens. A series of lyrical, unnerving explorations, from ancient forests to urban catacombs to caves of ice, that probe humanity’s sometimes wondrous, often malign, relationship with the world beneath our feet. In King’s most frightening books — like this one, about the abduction of psychically gifted children — the evil is perpetrated not by supernatural creatures, but by ordinary people like you and me.
A full look at the Lamalerans, a thriving tribal society that hunts sperm whales off Indonesia’s coast. A single mom teams up with an N.Y.P.D. Instead, he’s wrongly arrested and sent to a brutal reform school modeled on a real institution. Marantz visits the darkest, most twisted corners of the internet to show how that original blueprint went wrong. Lists are published early online. Ware’s long-awaited new graphic novel, opening in his native Omaha circa 1975, is at least four books in one, with a sum greater than its (great) parts. Ruta’s darkly glittering novel flits among characters — including a trio of astronauts, a 15-year-old girl and a tattoo artist — during the planet’s final hours. A wise and witty novel that follows the diverging lives and linguistic obsessions of identical twin sisters who struggle to figure out who they are on their own and in relation to each other. It’s fair to say that the last thing the world was itching for is another speculative account of Jimmy Hoffa’s final days, which is precisely why Goldsmith’s gripping hybrid of personal memoir and forensic procedural lands with the force of a sucker punch. “I found it worked best to lie frequently.”. Find the best new books each week sorted by format and genre, including fiction, nonfiction, advice & how-to, graphic novels, children's books, and more. The former first lady spent much of the last decade in the public eye; her memoir shows us her life from the inside, recounting with grace, candor and wit her family’s journey from the Jim Crow South to Chicago and her own improbable rise to the White House.