THRILLERS / BY SARAH LYALL Flesh and Blood Raphael Montes, Janice Hallett and Liane Moriarty serve up new novels that will keep you turning the pages. IT''S EASY TO see why Montes''s THE SECRET DINNER (Celadon, 337 pp., $28.99) was a phenomenon in Brazil. Who wouldn''t be curious about the story of a group of broke, 20-something roommates who start a ca- tering business serving human flesh to rich…
‘Married to Longing & Lament’ Throughout Jill Bialosky’s new and selected poems, what is unbearable is somehow borne. By CAROL MUSKE-DUKES JILL BIALOSKY’S LATEST book opens with 23 new poems, followed by selections from her five previous collections in reverse or- der of publication, concluding with the au- thor’s first volume, “The End of Desire.” So this “end as beginning” shape is circular, in …
AR THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 THE NEW SEASON Books Life and Fiction, So Often Intertwined Julie Orringer’'s new novel, “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” which is scheduled to be released on Oct. 13, unspools from the perspectives of multiple people. Julie Orringer didn’t know that her new novel would come to mirror her real-life challenges. By ELISABETH EGAN The most surprising thing abo…
Abodyinalake —and a detective to the rescue CRINEFICTION Joan Smith Surface by Olivier Norek, translated by Nick Caistor Open Borders Press £18.99 pp320 Olivier Norek is the latest star among French crime writers. Novels by this former detective, combining an insider’s knowledge of murder investigations with a startlingly original imagination, have sold millions. Surface is set in the Aveyron in s…
Character Study The heroine of R.F. Kuang’s new novel goes to Taiwan to learn Mandarin, but she mostly discovers herself. By LAUREN CHRISTENSEN MIDWAY THROUGH R.F. Kuang''s 2022 his- torical fantasy epic, “Babel,” on the eve of the first Opium War, the hero Robin Swift returns to Canton, China — the city of his birth and his mother’s death — on a mis- sion for the British Empire. A student at Oxfo…
American History / Melted Pot / By Alexis Coe Four authors grapple with the fight over American identity, from the colonial era to the modern day. “A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS” is America’s most success- ful branding campaign. The flag is its logo, Emma Laza- rus wrote the caption, and its most recognizable influ- encer, since 1886, is the Statue of Liberty. For purchase: belonging. Under President Tru…
د مدخل حينما نقرا خطابا إعلاميا - ايا كان نوعه ومضمونه قد يبدو لنا أن اللغة ليست أكثر من مجرد وسيط ينقل فكرة أو موفقا أو خبرا من الكاتب إلى القارئ. غير أن هذا ١ لتصور يكاد يخفي وراء جانبا أكثر تعقيدا: فاللغة في الخطاب الإعلامي لا تنقل المعنى وحده. بل تؤدي دورا جوهريا في بنائه, وترتيبه. وتوجيهه. إلى جانب بناء الإطار الذي ينظر من خلاله إلى الخطاب وإلى فكرته المركزية كما تصل إلى القارئ من خلال مساح…
Can our children still prosper in the age of AI? Daniel Susskind offers a sobering yet nuanced picture of how the young can adapt, writes Camilla Cavendish he title of Daniel Susskind’s engaging book asks the question every parent is pondering. His answer is unsettling: “we cannot be sure the advice we gave our children last year still works for the next.” Thank- fully, he goes on to offer hope th…
All about his mother Magdalena Miecznicka on a remarkable story of one woman's rise from Russian refisgee to the summit of French high society Kolkhoz KOLKHOZ| ov emmarue Em meted omar Fens Grom wean 1955, when the then 28-year-old Héléne Carrere d Encausse was fly ing back to France from Uzbekistan, the Afghan pilot of the plane landed unexpectedly in Kabul, with the intention of making her his w…
