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Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

  By Alexandra Jacobs

Claire Oppert, the author of “The Schubert Treatment,” playing for a patient in the intensive care unit of a French hospital.

How Well Do You Know Classic Books for Halloween Reading?

Magic, madness and supernatural horror have driven many book plots over the centuries. This short quiz scares up several popular novels to test your knowledge.

  By J. D. Biersdorfer

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New Horror for Readers Who Want to Be Completely Terrified

Our columnist reviews October’s new horror books.

  By Gabino Iglesias

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Piet Mondrian: An Orderly Painter, a Deeply Eccentric Man

A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.

  By Dwight Garner

Interest in the artist Piet Mondrian’s work shows no sign of waning.

4 Historical Novels Loaded With Witches, Fiends and Demons

These books are perfect for the spooky season.

  By Alida Becker

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Alan Moore Beckons Readers Into a Rich New Fantasy World

With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants an imaginary revolution.

  By Sam Thielman

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Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

  By The New York Times Books Staff

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7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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In This Biography, Mitch McConnell Hates Trump but Loves Power More

“The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a “sleazeball” for the presidency.

  By Jennifer Szalai

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the U.S. Capitol in September 2023.

What Do Animals Know About Death?

“Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world.

Chimpanzees at a rescue center in Cameroon in 2008 watch the burial of their fellow chimp Dorothy.

The Gadfly Journalist Who Punched Far Above His Weight

With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.

Claud Cockburn reported week after week on the threat that Hitler posed to Europe long before large newsrooms woke up to it.

From the Golden Age to the Streaming Age, Hollywood Has Been Hell for Writers

Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the laughs in today’s industry foibles.

Among the films Dorothy Parker worked on were the original “A Star Is Born” and “Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman.”

Why Us vs. Them Is Not Such a Bad Way to See the World

Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.

A game of pushball in Brecon, Wales, in 1973. It doesn’t take much for people to turn trivial differences into psychologically potent chasms between “us” and “them.”

Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Read

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

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A ‘Crime and Punishment’ Ballet? It’s Not as ‘Ludicrous’ as It Seems.

“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.

By Brian Seibert

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In 1930s Rwanda, a Black Savior Is Coming, and She Might Be a Woman

The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.

By V.V. Ganeshananthan

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Taking on Nora Ephron, Movie by Movie and Book by Book

Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.

By Celia McGee

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Joan Didion Remains as Elusive as Ever. These Books Want to Fix That.

Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.

By Casey Schwartz

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2 Novels About Complicated Nuns

An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.

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How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.

By Alexandra Alter

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The Culture Was Always Playing Catch-Up With Gary Indiana

From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.

By Christian Lorentzen

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Gary Indiana, Acerbic Cultural Critic and Novelist, Dies at 74

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

By Penelope Green

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‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Cut Short Amid Allegations Against Gaiman

The series is the third production linked to the author to face turmoil after allegations made by five women surfaced this summer.

By Jesus Jiménez

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Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared.

Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

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From a Novelist, a Chilling True Fable of Anorexia

The English writer Sarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir.

By Sylvia Brownrigg

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The Many Faces of Rammellzee

How the multi-hyphenate, biracial artist from Far Rockaway influenced 1980s graffiti culture and the downtown New York art scene.

By Tas Tobey

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A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket, to Infinity and Beyond

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.

By Elisabeth Egan

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Poetry and a Lone Stag Help an Isolated Deaf Girl Connect

The young language-deprived protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s novel “Deer Run Home” tells her own story, in verse.

By Sara Novic

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Dispatches From the Middle East, With Cameos by Osama bin Laden

In “Night of Power,” Robert Fisk’s posthumous war stories focus on the victims and perpetrators in conflicts across the Middle East.

By Robert F. Worth

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For This Turkish Writer, the Flaws of Language Were Its Greatest Asset

Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.

By Ayten Tartici

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Lynda Obst, Producer, Dies at 74; Championed Women in Hollywood

She helped make films like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Contact.” She also wrote widely about the industry, for The Times and other publications.

By Clay Risen

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Antonio Skármeta, Who Wrote of Chile’s Tears and Turmoil, Dies at 83

His literary career traced the arc of his country’s modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.

By Adam Nossiter

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5 Books to Read About Policing Before You Vote

Memoirists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the origins of the war on crime to what comes after “broken windows.”

By Sam Adler-Bell

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Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Be Reading

Halloween is just around the corner, so we turned to two great horror authors — Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones — for their recommendations of books to read this season.

The Ezra Klein Show: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie's "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," has been nominated in the nonfiction category as part of this year's National Book Awards, which will take place in mid-November. This week, we are running Rushdie's conversation with Ezra Klein from earlier this year.

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Stanley Tucci on His Year in Eating and a Look at the National Book Awards

The actor-director-producer Stanley Tucci is also, famously, an avid eater. He explored his enthusiasm for food in his 2021 memoir “Taste,” and now a food diary, “What I Ate in One Year." In this week’s episode, Tucci discusses his new book with host Gilbert Cruz and talks about bad meals, his food idol and his path to tracking a year’s worth of eating. Gilbert also chats with The Book Review's Joumana Khatib about the National Book Award finalists in fiction and nonfiction.

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Jean Hanff Korelitz on "The Sequel"

The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”

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Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya

Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite” follows a famous English novelist as he watches a new play by his daughter, Sophia, in London. The lights go down in the theater, and immediately the novelist realizes: The play is about him, the vacation he took with Sophia a decade earlier and the sins he committed while they were away. In this week’s episode, the Book Review’s MJ Franklin discusses the book with editors Joumana Khatib and Lauren Christensen.

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The Fall Books We're Looking Forward To

This weekend marks the official start of autumn, so what better time to take a peek at the fall books we’re most excited to read? On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz chats with Joumana Khatib and Anna Dubenko about the upcoming season of reading and the books on the horizon that they’re looking forward to most eagerly.

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Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker'

Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely reshape New York City and its surrounding environment for generations to come. Like Moses, Caro’s book has exerted an enduring and outsize influence. This week, Caro tells host Gilbert Cruz how he accounts for its enduring legacy.

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Kate Atkinson on the Return of Jackson Brodie

The British writer Kate Atkinson has had a rich and varied career since publishing her first book in 1996. But she may be best known for her Jackson Brodie series of crime novels. Sarah Lyall speaks with Atkinson about the sixth entry in the series, "Death at the Sign of the Rook."

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The ‘New York Times Book Review’ Mixes It Up

When Pamela Paul stepped down as editor of the New York Times Book Review in April 2022, the news came as a shock to many of her colleagues. Paul had joined the Book Review , the paper’s standalone Sunday book reviews section, in 2011, and served as its editor since 2013. In 2016, Dean Baquet, who was then executive editor of the Times , decided to bring all of the paper’s books coverage—the daily Books section, book news, publishing industry news, and the Book Review —under Paul’s aegis.

“Everyone was surprised,” said Tina Jordan, deputy editor of the Book Review , of Paul’s departure. “She’d been there almost 10 years. We weren’t expecting it.” (Soon after leaving, Paul joined the paper’s Opinion section as a columnist, where she has developed a bit of a reputation in media circles for her subject matter and style.) While the search for Paul’s successor was underway, Jordan took over on an interim basis.

In July 2022, Gilbert Cruz was named to succeed Paul, having previously served, since 2018, as the culture editor at the paper. Like Paul before him, Cruz oversees all books coverage at the Times . He started the job in August, when the book publishing industry is notoriously quiet, but nevertheless immediately set to work. The transition in leadership, Jordan said, was “pretty seamless.”

First on Cruz’s to-do list was to solidify the Book Review as the face of all of the paper’s books coverage. Overseeing a team of more than 20 editors, critics, and reporters, he has spent the past year “making sure the staff feels like a whole”—that is, a single unit united under one banner. “Something I’ve been telling the entire staff is that there’s one brand here, and it’s the New York Times Book Review ,” he explained. “Everyone on this desk works for the New York Times Book Review —even if you’re a reporter, and your stuff never appears in the Book Review because it closes 10 days before it hit stands, you still work for the Book Review . Because when most people think of our books coverage, the Book Review is the thing that stands out in their mind.”

The Book Review is the nation’s largest and most storied standalone newspaper book reviews section, having been in print since 1896—and it’s one of the few remaining. At a time when books coverage has been slashed at papers around the country and reviewers on Goodreads and BookTok hold increasing sway over sales, what role the Book Review plays in today’s publishing ecosystem is something of an existential question.

One way to retool the Book Review for the current age, Cruz said, is to grow its digital readership. “That’s really what I came here to do,” he added. For him, this means doubling down on digital efforts and launching new digital franchises, as well as “trying to think about audiences that we’re not reaching right now.”

Under Cruz, the Book Review is also streamlining its coverage. It no longer runs “double-reviews” (two reviews by different critics of a single book), which Cruz felt “sends a mixed message to the reader.” It has also begun running reviews by the paper’s staff book critics—Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai, and Molly Young, who had traditionally only appeared in the daily paper, which Cruz saw as a missed opportunity. (“We have this amazing product that is more than 100 years old, and our main voices on books never appeared in there!”)

Moreover, the Book Review has started publishing different kinds of features, such as author profiles and a new “Read Your Way Around the World” series, which is spearheaded by deputy news and features editor Juliana Barbassa. Barbassa has also led much of the Times ’ coverage of industry news, including the proliferation of book bans and AI’s impact on publishing.

Though the Book Review covered an estimated 2,300 books last year, its print editions have noticeably slimmed down in recent years. While occasional special issues—its summer reading and holiday issues, for instance—remain robust, Cruz doubts it will ever return to the larger page counts of yore.

“I can’t tell the future,” he said, “but I would challenge anyone to show me a print publication that has gotten bigger” over time. Nevertheless, he hopes that during his tenure, “people who primarily experience the Book Review through the print product get their money’s worth.”

In describing his vision for books coverage at the Times , Cruz repeatedly used the word experiment . He spoke of testing new things, keeping what works and scrapping what doesn’t. He believes that over the course of many experiments that “the Book Review is going to become more of a book publication.” One of his primary goals, in this first year at the helm, “is to try a lot of stuff.” His other goal: “not to mess this up.”

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The New York Times Book Review  revealed their top 10 books of the year in a virtual event for subscribers .  Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti is the December GMA Book Club pick. More Best of the Year lists arrive.  Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan gets reviewed.  LJ posts the May 2022 Prepub Alert complete list. Bernardine Evaristo will preside over the Royal Society of Literature. Interviews arrive with Faith Jones,   Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan, Mel Brooks, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Stephen Graham Jones’ forthcoming novel,  Don't Fear the Reaper is due out in August 2022. Plus, authors Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel reconsider the future of work. 

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Editors at The New York Times Book Review  revealed their top 10 books of the year in a virtual event for subscribers .The list will be published later today.  

Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti (Grand Central) is the December GMA Book Club pick . 

Time releases the 100 must-read books of 2021.

The Chicago Tribune picks its top 10 books of the year.  

Book Page delivers its Best Books of the Year lists.

Merlin Sheldrake wins Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures .  The Bookseller reports. 

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The Guardian reviews Renegades: Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama (Crown): “if that person in your life who has everything deserves a reminder of how rock’n’roll can be more moral than its enemies, of how, sometimes, the arc of history bends towards justice a little more noticeably, Renegades will stuff that stocking amply.”

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Bernardine Evaristo will preside over the Royal Society of Literature .  The Guardian reports.

Salon  has a conversation with Faith Jones , Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Morrow; LJ starred review), about “leaving a religious cult and re-discovering who she was.”

People  talks with Alfonso Ribeiro about whether or not he will read  his friend’s memoir, Will , by Will Smith (Penguin Random House).

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Bustle explores the question, “Is There A Better Way To Write About Interracial Friendship?” with co-authors of the novel, We Are Not Like Them (Atria), Christine Pride and Jo Piazza.

FoxNews  share s details from Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan by Christopher Andersen (Gallery Books).

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The LA Times has 6 books for December .

LitHub shares 12 books out this week .

Bustle has 10 new books for the week.

Jakucho Setouchi, Buddhist nun and best-selling Japanese author, dies at 99 .  The Washington Post has an obituary.

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Mel Brooks talks to Good Morning America about his remarkable life in show business and his new memoir, All About Me! (Ballantine: Penguin Random House).

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NPR has an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa about his new book ,  Harsh Times , trans. by Adrian Nathan West (Farrar).

Netflix will no longer produce the adaptation of Alice Sebold memoir.    The Guardian reports.

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LitHub shares a clip of Chadwick Boseman reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass .

Vanessa Lachey,  Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Start with You , written with Dina Gachman (HarperOne) will be on with Drew Barrymore tomorrow, and Andy Cohen,  Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love  (Holt), will be on The Real.

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