From Mexico to Colombia to the West Indies to a farm in England’s Lake District, the books we recommend this week largely cast their eyes far from the United States. We like two novels set in Mexico City — one a noir, the other a recursive stream-of-consciousness monologue — along with a look at Osama bin Laden’s life and death, a Colombian story collection, a historical novel about an unlikely entrepreneur in 18th-century Montserrat, and the biography of an American woman who helped organize resistance to Hitler in 1930s Berlin. That English farm? It belongs to the shepherd and author James Rebanks, whose new book is all about the challenges of sustainable agriculture.
New York Times: 11 new books we recommend this week
A woman reads a book at Book Arsenal fair in Kyiv on June 23, 2021.
