Nonfiction: We Have Abundant Food. Why Is Our Health — and the Planet’s — So Bad?
Bee Wilson’s “The Way We Eat Now” delves into the startling consequences of the globalization that has revolutionized our relationship to food.
'A Thousand Small Sanities' Is A Lesson In Understanding Liberalism
By showing the impact it's had in the past, Adam Gopnik presents liberalism not only as a moral adventure but also as a necessity in an age of resurging autocracy and rampant bigotry.
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By the Book: By the Book: Ani DiFranco
The singer-songwriter, whose new memoir is “No Walls and the Recurring Dream,” says her shelves contain “poetry for when my mind is spinning” and “a bunch of learn-how-to-meditate books that don’t seem to be helping.”
Karen Russell Proves She's A True Original With 'Orange World'
Russell's new story collection encompasses everything from a boy in love with a bog body to a woman trying to get out of a bargain with the devil — it's unlike anything you've ever read before.
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Fiction: In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders
In this debut collection, daily lives in the barrio bespeak a universal American condition.
Audiobooks: Hear Andrew McCabe’s Story in His Own Words, and in His Own Voice
The former F.B.I. deputy director recounts his short-lived tenure as a key player in the Trump administration.
'Nothing's Bad Luck' Zeroes In On The Life And Lasting Work Of Warren Zevon
C.M. Kushin has delivered a nuanced, in-depth, loving look at the complicated singer/songwriter, one that helps cement him as one of the most complex and captivating music figures of our times.
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Audiobooks: Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’
The actor brings a new, restrained lilt to James Joyce’s 1916 classic.
Audiobooks: Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
The actor, best known for his role on “The Office,” revives Norton Juster’s 1960 classic children’s story.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Set on the Brooding, Remote Kamchatka Peninsula
Julia Phillips’s “Disappearing Earth” explores the lives of interconnected women in far eastern Russia after a horrific crime.
In 'A Good American Family,' A Son Details How The Red Scare Upended His Father
Pulitzer prize-winning David Marannis immerses himself in family records and interviews with relatives of others to piece together how his parents paid for supporting communism in their youth.
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Nonfiction: How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries
Christina Thompson’s “Sea People” tells the story of the people of Polynesia and their “discovery,” while Peter Moore’s “Endeavour” looks at the ship that made that encounter possible.
Nonfiction: Justice John Paul Stevens Looks Back on His Long Career
Stevens’s “The Making of a Justice” is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the law.
Nonfiction: In Defense of Liberalism
Adam Gopnik’s “A Thousand Small Sanities” is an argument against the illiberal left, even though Gopnik accepts some of its premises.
Fiction: An Astronaut, an Antiwar Radical and a Novelist’s Epic Vision of America
Vietnam, Watergate and the first moonwalk mark the characters in “America Was Hard to Find,” a sweeping debut novel by Kathleen Alcott.
Newsbook: Read 3 Books About Doris Day and Her Legacy
Her autobiography, a biography and a cultural critic’s take give insight into the star’s long career.
Nonfiction: A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us
In her stunning exposé “Bottle of Lies,” Katherine Eban describes a world of generic drug manufacturing rife with corruption and life-threatening misdeeds.
Nonfiction: David McCullough’s Idealistic Settlers
McCullough’s “The Pioneers” tells of the good intentions behind the creation of Ohio.
Fiction: A Heroine Checks In to the Psychiatric Ward, and Takes Notes
The depressed protagonist of Binnie Kirshenbaum’s novel “Rabbits for Food” has trouble connecting with others, but she is alert to the sanity of the insane.
An Ethereal Child Causes Earthly Problems In 'Lanny'
Max Porter's propulsive, original new novel is set in a small, seemingly idyllic English village that quickly turns darker when the whimsical young son of a newly-arrived couple goes missing.
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