3+ week, 1+ day ago   (869+ words) Andrea Bajani, a winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, was back in Rome for the summer when he slid into a seat in front of a weeping woman on a local bus. Like any good novelist, he eavesdropped. The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (577+ words) n the wake of the enormous, runaway success of the “Harry Potter” movies, Hollywood scooped up every young adult fantasy book series it could find....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (443+ words) Each fall, students and teachers come together behind collage-decorated doors to participate in the great experiment known as school. What causes some classrooms to fizz along companionably and others to spontaneously combust? Why, chemistry of course! These four new titles…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (799+ words) Rachel Cusk’s most recent novels have arrived in America sleek, white-covered and unencumbered, like yachts. The newest one, “Life of M,” comes towed by a squat little tugboat of good old-fashioned gossip. Having denounced the concept of character in 2018 — smarties…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (478+ words) Every week, the critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, fantasies, mysteries and everything in between....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1389+ words) Now Cusk has logged on to a video call to explain, even though she’d rather not be explaining. Cusk seems bewildered, and a bit distressed, to find herself caught in the harsh spotlight of fame and the kind of tabloid…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1390+ words) Now Cusk has logged on to a video call to explain, even though she’d rather not be explaining. Cusk seems bewildered, and a bit distressed, to find herself caught in the harsh spotlight of fame and the kind of tabloid…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (680+ words) 1. Whistler by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) A woman reconnects with her former stepfather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art decades after a traumatic event separated them. 2. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1039+ words) When the Booker Prize longlist was recently announced, it included a book with the memorable title “May We Feed the King.”The debut novel by British author Rebecca Perry isn’t yet available in the U.S., and when it does…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (916+ words) Something happens to kids when they’re about 9 years old. Before then, they’re voracious little bookworms, with most of them saying they read for fun at least five days a week. After their ninth birthday, only 35 percent still do. But for…...