Our recommended books this week touch on everything from science and nature (in Mary Roach’s “Fuzz,” that means the collision of humans and other animals; in Thor Hanson’s “Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid,” it means the impact of climate change on nonhuman species) to politics (a biography of Angela Merkel, a look back at the tumultuous 1960s) to literature (the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, two takes on the meaning and importance of Black storytelling). Also, fine china. In fiction, we recommend new novels by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Claire Vaye Watkins, along with Gary Shteyngart’s pandemic-inspired narrative of friends and rivals locked down for the duration on a secluded country estate.
New York Times: 13 new books we recommend this week
A man reads a book at the banks of the Spree as the river's water is glittering in the sun in Berlin's Mitte (centre) district on Feb. 25, 2019.
