What a difference a decade makes. In 1940 George Orwell published his eighth book, the essay collection Inside the Whale, but when the Nazis in the same year drew up a list of Britons to be arrested ...
The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff “The New India,” by Rahul Bhatia ...
In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...