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  1. PhotoDara McAnulty near his home in Northern Ireland. He is the author of “Diary of a Young Naturalist,” which won last year’s Wainwright Prize for nature writing.
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    A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom

    At 17, Dara McAnulty is becoming one of Britain’s most acclaimed nature writers, with work that touches on his autism as much as the world around his home.

    By Alex Marshall

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    Globetrotting

    Your sneak preview of books in translation coming out in 2021, updated each season.

    By Rebecca Lieberman and Tammy Tarng

  3. Recommendations

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    What to Read Right Now

    Book recommendations from editors at the New York Times Book Review.

  4. The Book Review Podcast

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    An Outsider Finds Suspense in Hollywood

    Catherine Steadman talks about her new novel, “The Disappearing Act,” and Michael Dobbs discusses “King Richard,” his new book about Watergate.

Books of The Times

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  1. Fiction

    Nana Nkweti’s Tales of Cameroonians at Home and in America

    The stories in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” span genres, generations and geography.

    By Deesha Philyaw

  2. The Lives of Flies

    Jonathan Balcombe talks about “Super Fly,” and Marjorie Ingall discusses Holocaust literature for children.

  3. Impressions

    Turning to Ovid in a Moment of Transition

    A photographer found comfort during the pandemic in the “Metamorphoses,” the classic work on nature and change.

    By Celeste Sloman

  4. Crime & Mystery

    Murder in a French Mountain Village

    Our crime columnist raves about Samira Sedira’s “People Like Them,” as well as Willa C. Richards’s debut, “The Comfort of Monsters.”

    By Sarah Weinman

  5. Nonfiction

    The ‘Ugly Truth’ About Facebook

    A new, deeply reported book by the Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang recounts the full story of the social media company’s foibles.

    By Sarah Frier

  6. Paperback Row

    New in Paperback: ‘Love and Theft’ and ‘The Sirens of Mars’

    Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

    By Jennifer Krauss

  7. Typing Classes, the Aubrey-Maturin Series and Other Letters to the Editor

    Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

  8. Fiction

    A New Novel Gives Wings — and a Megaphone — to a Complex Woman

    In “Island Queen,” Vanessa Riley introduces readers to Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a Caribbean entrepreneur who secured the freedom of enslaved people.

    By Carole V. Bell

  9. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

    Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

  10. Nonfiction

    Michael Pollan Explores the Mind-Altering Plants in His Garden

    In his newest book, “This Is Your Mind on Plants,” Pollan looks at opium, caffeine and mescaline and the role they have played in human society.

    By Rob Dunn