Plus: Sally Rooney talks about her new novel, the week's latest releases and more.
Here's your weekly catch-up on everything you need to know going on in the book world. |
- September is nearly upon us, which is good news for book lovers: Here are 19 to watch for next month.
- We profile Sally Rooney ahead of her new novel, "Beautiful World, Where Are You," out next week. "It was with this book that I sat down and thought, wait a minute, what is a novel?" Rooney says. "I seem to be writing them, but what are they?"
- Conflicts over race, culture and inclusion have roiled the Romance Writers of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and other groups devoted to books and literature.
- In "The Sisters of Auschwitz," a best seller in the Netherlands for more than two years, Roxane van Iperen writes about how two Dutch Jewish sisters staged their own form of resistance during World War II — a kind of cultural defiance that we don't tend to hear much about in Holocaust histories.
- Fiction out today: "Three Rooms," by Jo Hamya; "A Slow Fire Burning," by Paula Hawkins.
- Nonfiction out today: "The Afghanistan Papers," by Craig M. Whitlock; "The Gambler Wife," by Andrew D. Kaufman; "The Sisters of Auschwitz," by Roxane van Iperen.
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- Dwight Garner reviews "The Magician," Colm Toíbin's "symphonic and moving novel" about the German author Thomas Mann. "Like its subject, it's somber, yet it's also prickly and strange," Garner says, "sometimes all at the same time."
- Jennifer Szalai writes about "The Failed Promise," Robert S. Levine's new book about Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson's impeachment, which looks closely at the perspective of Frederick Douglass and other Black leaders.
- And John Williams takes up Robert Olen Butler's novel "Late City," the sentimental story of a man on his deathbed discovering new truths about his life.
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