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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
“No more pencils, no more books,” the
song goes, and can we just say that we do not approve? Summer in this
hemisphere officially arrives on June 21, but summer reading is upon us already, and more books are frankly just the thing.
That’s
why I’m following Parul Sehgal’s excellent advice and tearing through
Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, “Mostly Dead Things” — it’s a gorgeous,
funny story about love and grief and taxidermy — but if you’ve already
read that, or are saving it for your two weeks at the lake house, then
you might dip into the new sf collection from the great Ted Chiang, or
read Jericho Brown’s latest book of poetry, or spend some time with Mira
Jacob’s graphic memoir, “Good Talk.” Just read.
We
bring you Swedish thrillers and Tudor mysteries and an
alternate-reality jungle-infested 1920s Manhattan, assuming you like
that kind of thing as much as we do. And if your summer plans involve
armchair travel rather than the real thing, we offer one debut novel set
in Alaska, another set in eastern Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, and a
group biography of the characters who have taken up residence over the
years on the isle of Capri.
