Fiction
A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip
In Jesse Ball’s new novel, “Census,” a retired doctor — facing a dire prognosis — embarks on a journey with his only child, who has Down syndrome.
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A Professional Troublemaker’s Guide for Young Activists
With her memoir, “Make Trouble,” Cecile Richards — the outgoing president of Planned Parenthood — has written a blueprint for effecting change.
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The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created
Amy Chozick’s “Chasing Hillary” describes the impossibility of covering the two Clinton presidential campaigns.
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How Does Empathy Work? A Writer Explores the Science and Its Applications
In “I Feel You,” Cris Beam examines how we come to feel one another’s pain.
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Nonfiction
Photo CreditBlue Origin In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There
Two new books, “The Space Barons” and “Rocket Billionaires,” tell the story of the entrepreneurial push to leave Earth.
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Fiction
Photo CreditNajeebah Al-Ghadban When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime
Two new novels — “If We Had Known,” by Elise Juska, and “How to Be Safe,” by Tom McAllister — imagine communities roiled by mass murder.
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Editors’ Choice
Photo Credit 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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The Book Review Podcast
Photo Credit Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’
James Shapiro discusses Nesbo’s new novel, and Leila Slimani talks about “The Perfect Nanny.”
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Best Sellers
Photo Credit Best-Seller Lists for April 29, 2018
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Nonfiction
Photo CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’
The sociologist Manuel Pastor explores the rise, fall and rise again of America’s most populous state.
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Nonfiction
Photo CreditAnderson Newton Design The State That Foreshadows America’s Future
Lawrence Wright’s “God Save Texas” is a loving and skeptical portrait of the place he calls home.
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Essay
Photo CreditLinda Huang Jay Gatsby: A Dreamer Doomed to Be Excluded. The Novelist Jesmyn Ward Explains.
In this adaptation of her introduction to a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” Ward reads Fitzgerald’s novel, uncovering an impossible yearning to belong.
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By the Book
Photo CreditIllustration by Jillian Tamaki James B. Comey: By the Book
When James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and author of “A Higher Loyalty,” reads fiction, it’s “almost always something my kids are reading, so I can … pretend to be cool.”
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Fiction
Photo CreditOwen Freeman Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
