New Bedtime Books for Children
Five luminous new children’s books to help little ones wind down at night.
Book Review: ‘The Lion House,’ by Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue’s “The Lion House” is a history of the 16th-century Ottoman sultanate that reads like a novel, overflowing with naval battles, high-stakes diplomacy, opulence, avarice and brutality.
Gabrielle Blair Embraces ‘the Least Sexy Way to Talk About Sex.”
In her book “Ejaculate Responsibly,” the home renovation guru encourages readers to revisit their thinking about unwanted pregnancies.
Book Reviews: ‘Like' by Annie Barrows and ‘I Can Explain’ by Shinsuke Yoshitake
“Like” and “I Can Explain” delightfully get inside kids’ heads as they puzzle out what it means to be human — and how to keep one step ahead of Mom.
Book Review: ‘Novelist as a Vocation,’ by Haruki Murakami
In a new memoir, “Novelist as a Vocation,” the Japanese writer reflects on his craft and his career.
Book Review: ‘Free Market: The History of an Idea,’ by Jacob Soll
Jacob Soll’s ambitious history takes us from Cicero to Milton Friedman, but is hobbled by questionable assertions.
Book Review: ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ by Kevin Wilson
The friends at the center of Kevin Wilson’s “Now Is Not the Time to Panic” hang photocopied posters around their small Tennessee town. Chaos ensues.
Book Review: ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ by Bob Dylan
“The Philosophy of Modern Song” offers commentaries on a range of music, written in the singer’s unmistakable lyrical style.
Putting Writers’ Lives on the Reading List
It’s never too young to be inspired by Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf and the “daring original” Ruth Krauss.
Book Review: ‘The Hyacinth Girl,’ by Lyndall Gordon
Drawing on newly released letters from the poet to Emily Hale, with whom he maintained a decades-long, mostly epistolary affair, “The Hyacinth Girl,” by Lyndall Gordon, reconsiders his life and work.
Book Review: “Flight,” by Lynn Steger Strong
In Lynn Steger Strong’s third novel, “Flight,” a trio of siblings converge for their first Christmas without their mother. It’s complicated.
Book Review: ‘Just Passing Through,’ edited by Cullen Murphy
“Just Passing Through” collects the diaries and photographs of Milton Gendel, who lived large, bought plenty and schmoozed with the glamorous.
Book Review: ‘Unstoppable Us.’ by Yuval Noah Harari
In “Unstoppable Us,” he presents the provocative ideas that drove his 2015 best seller, “Sapiens,” without dumbing them down.
Doris Grumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104
In novels, essays and literary criticism, she wrote about women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages. She also wrote six memoirs.
Out Loud, Pumped Up and Bossed Around by the French
Our critic recommends old and new books.
Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity
Keegan doesn’t write much, or publish often. But when she does, critics, readers and booksellers take notice.
Books That Teach Children About War Without Frightening Them
Four new picture books tackle the subject in sensitive, reassuring ways.
Book Review: ‘Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern,’ by Neil Baldwin
The most revealing statements in a new biography come from the dancers who gave their lives and bodies to her experiments.
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81
A fearless scholar of English literature, she argued in books and interviews that the revered playwright was a narcissist, misogynist and social climber.
Rebecca Godfrey, Author Who Found Humanity in Teenage Violence, Dies at 54
She drew praise for the precision and compassion of “Under the Bridge,” her account of the beating and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
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