A Brief History of Books on Wheels Erica AckerbergReading in Manhattan 📚The New York Times For decades now, bookmobiles have existed all over the country, mostly to serve readers who don’t live by a library. Take a look at these images we found in The Times’s photo archives → Source
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11 Books By Latinos to Read for Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month, a celebration that runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, captures a period covering seven different independence days across Latin America. In recent years, however, the celebration has prompted Latinos in the United States to look inward, grappling with issues of representation, colorism and sexuality. To
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
If you’re looking for escapist reading, this week’s recommended books won’t help. But if you want a cleareyed and sometimes rousing look at the state of the world today, settle right in: We’ve got books about the Mexican drug trade and America’s efforts to combat it (“The Dope,” by Benjamin
6 New Books on the Pandemic, #MeToo and Other Timely Topics
Why were our cities and their economies so vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic? Two Harvard economists take stock of the issues that bedevil American cities (or as they put it, the “demons” that often “accompany density”), including health care, affordable housing, education, class disparities and more. The authors approach the
What to Read: 5 Visual Books
What to Read: 5 Visual Books Lauren Christensen📍Reading in Los Angeles THE POVERTY LINE, by Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin. (Lars Müller, paper, $50.) The artistic duo apply their statistical approach to the problem of global inequality, visiting 36 countries in 10 years to understand, through food, the everyday sacrifices
The Coming ‘Tsunami’ of Books on Race
Certain titles saw explosive growth. “So You Want To Talk About Race,” first published in 2018, sold about 34,000 copies in the 12 months before Floyd’s death. In the year that followed, it has sold more than 10 times that amount. Publishing executives wonder who the winners and losers will
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, by Sally Rooney. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) This third novel by Rooney, after “Conversations With Friends” and “Normal People,” is about four characters, first among them Alice Kelleher, a clear stand-in for the author. It features spirited inquiries into timely social, political subjects, but
Four New Poetry Books Mine Their Authors’ Pasts for Music and Meaning
CATCALLINGBy Lee SohoTranslated by Soje 103 pp. Open Letter. Paper, $14.95. Painful and charming, raw and sometimes purposefully childish, Soho’s poems track the Korean poet’s alter ego, Kyungjin, and her sometimes affectionate, sometimes bloody relations with her birth family. “I wore baby clothes and a bridal veil,” she imagines: “Little
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
It’s easy to fall into the habit of seeing the Book Review and The Times’s daily book critics as a monolithic bloc of infallible and irreproachable literary opinions — heck, with lists like this one, we sometimes even encourage it. In truth, though, we’re more like the affectionate cranks who
5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes
This article is part of our latest Design special report, about homes for multiple generations and new definitions of family. Design details that serve no utilitarian purpose but help lift spirits can become obsessions for craftspeople and authors. These five volumes explain why anyone would embed polished conches in stucco