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New Novels to Read This Spring

Mar 12, 2025 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

Five high school students on a camping trip discover a mysterious staircase leading nowhere. When one friend climbs up and vanishes, the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase reappears, prompting the group to reunite, return to the woods and find their lost friend.
How the Moleskine Notebook Became an Essential Creative Tool

Nov 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

A notebook is a record of both solitude and connection. It's a place for making real the quiet, flickering thoughts that otherwise might pass unnoticed, where words and sketches can stumble and fail. In a notebook, failure is less consequential because it's not failure at all; it's a necessary part of the messiness of exploration, of letting the unknown and the uncertain find form.
A Sally Rooney Book Party Without Sally Rooney - The New York Times

Sep 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong |Ye Fan

Sally Rooney lovers reveled, played trivia and took part in raffles to celebrate the Irish novelist’s new book, “Intermezzo.”
Tomi Adeyemi’s Books Are Fantasy. What They Taught Her Is Painfully Real. - The New York Times

Jun 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
Hanif Abdurraqib Just Misses His Dog

Apr 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels Inside the BEst-Seller ListHis new book, "There's Always This Year," is a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio. "It's a real culture shock and emotional shock," Hanif Abdurraqib said in a recent phone interview.
Joy-Ann Reid's 352-Page Love Letter to Medgar and Myrlie

Feb 22, 2024 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

Joy-Ann Reid didn't set out to publish her best-selling third book, " Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America " - which chronicles the lives of the prominent activists of the same name - in February, a month dedicated to both romance and Black history. But she's glad it worked out that way. "It's a civil rights love story that gets released, you know, in the month of love," the MSNBC journalist said in a phone interview, a day after Valentine's.
Is the Literary Hat the New Tote Bag?

Oct 9, 2023 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong

For $27 (not including tax and shipping), you can own a baseball cap embroidered with the name of your favorite literary darling, too. Zadie Smith. Elif Batuman. Joyce Carol Oates. Dionne Brand. Alice Munro. Patricia Lockwood. Olga Tokarczuk. Lydia Davis. Rachel Kushner. Deborah Levy. Rachel Cusk. Yoko Tawada. Chris Kraus. Mary Gaitskill. Sheila Heti. Fleur Jaeggy. These are the women whose novels are spotlighted in personal collections and bookstores alike.
Gov Ball Raves on in Pink, Amid Rain and Smoke

Jun 12, 2023 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong
For Some, the Only Reason to Watch ‘The Idol’ Is for Blackpink’s Jennie

Jun 5, 2023 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong
And the Winners Are … ‘Succession’ Fans Who Correctly Chose the New C.E.O.

May 30, 2023 | nytimes.com | Wilson Wong