Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a Novel
Writers are taking notes on the pandemic, says Sloane Crosley. But now’s not the time for your coronavirus book.
He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered.
In “Sick Souls, Healthy Minds,” John Kaag looks to the 19th-century psychologist and philosopher for answers to life’s big questions.
Samsung: The Tech Monster That Conquered the World
Geoffrey Cain’s “Samsung Rising” tells the full story of the giant corporation from its beginnings as a shop selling vegetables.
Is There Cosmic Meaning in Life’s Randomness?
In a new memoir, “My Meteorite,” the artist Harry Dodge searches for the grand pattern in his life’s myriad coincidences.
For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together
In “That Hair,” the Portuguese writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida uses a young half-Angolan girl in Lisbon to explore her own Afro-European selfhood.
Has Physics Lost Its Way?
In “The Dream Universe,” David Lindley argues that physicists have become too enamored of theoretical phenomena like parallel universes and black holes.
The Ghost Writer: An Author Imagines a Letter From Her Late Grandmother
“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream.
The Jewish Race-Car Driver Who Outpaced the Nazis
In “Faster,” Neal Bascomb brings to life a vivid chapter in auto-racing history.
Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Lawyer’s Mind and a Poet’s Words
For almost 40 years, the poet and law professor Lawrence Joseph has embraced big questions. “A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems” shows the path his work has traveled.
How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed
“Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,” by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, describes the growing dysfunction of blue-collar workers in white communities.
When Mies van der Rohe Went on Trial
In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a tale of modernism, a broken heart and a transparent house with too few closets.
Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College
Jesse Wegman’s “Let the People Pick the President” is a readable account of how the Electoral College distorts our political system.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Was There a Murder on the Mayflower?
In her new novel, “Beheld,” TaraShea Nesbit uses the death of Dorothy Bradford to look at what life was like for women in the Plymouth Colony.
A History Book That Isn't: Finding A Way To Teach Racism To A New Generation
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi team up to investigate the history of racist ideas through a narrative that's aimed at young adult readers. It's called: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.
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From the Archives: Michael Lewis and Tana French
Lewis discusses “The Fifth Risk,” and French talks about “The Witch Elm.”
The Beauty Is in the Details
What one artist learned when she sat down to talk with Lynda Barry.
Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New
In these books, demons infest an elderly tutor, a ghost roams an opera house and a doctor embalms some very strange and horrible things.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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