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Fascinating if overstuffed, Amitav Ghosh’s “Ghost-Eye” connects the mystifying case of a girl in Calcutta to the global climate crisis. By Junot Díaz Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic ...

As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black. By Richard Sandomir In “They All Fall in ...

FSG lands Raven Leilani’s sophomore novel about women artists, Del Rey snags one of the buzziest books from this year’s London Book Fair, and more.

May 19, 2026 • A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking ...