Nonfiction: A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “The Circuit” is a poet’s-eye view of tennis in 2017.
Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism
A self-titled coffee-table book — subtitled “Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness” — collects the photographer’s black-and-white images to challenge global racism.
Nonfiction: A Modern History of China, in Photographs
“Magnum China” collects decades-worth of images by Western photographers of a nation gripped by political conflict.
Nonfiction: How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York
Vivien Schweitzer’s history of the genre, “A Mad Love,” and Heidi Waleson’s intricate account of the New York City Opera, “Mad Scenes and Exit Arias,” testify to an art that inspires deep passions.
Nonfiction: How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music
The second volume of Gary Giddins’s “Bing Crosby” traces the singer’s career through the war years.
Nonfiction: Delicacies of the Dining Car
“Food on the Move,” edited by Sharon Hudgins, is a collection of essays exploring the glamorous past and occasionally delectable present of dining on trains around the world.
Nonfiction: Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese
In “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” Idle remembers the Pythons and other famous friends; in “Professor at Large,” Cleese revisits his years at Cornell.
Nonfiction: Imagining What Happens When the Robots Take the Wheel
In “No One at the Wheel,” Samuel Schwartz, the onetime traffic commissioner of New York City, examines the perils of driverless cars.
Newsbook: What’s Life Really Like on the Mexican Border? These 3 Books Help Give a Sense
Dispatches from a former border patrol agent and more.
New Biography Reveals The Life And Legacy Of Saxophonist Dexter Gordon
Gordon started out as a bebop prodigy in the '40s, and went on to star in the '86 film 'Round Midnight. Maxine Gordon captures her late husband's voice and music in the book Sophisticated Giant.
Bernie Sanders Criticizes Democrats And Republicans In 'Where We Go From Here'
The former presidential candidate's latest book is just what you might expect from this genre: His platforms are presented but not interrogated — and there is little self-reflection.
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Nonfiction: Three Books Trace a History of Race Relations in America, Through Art
From the Harlem Renaissance to today, the painting and photography and poetry of black Americans have both shaped and reflected a shifting cultural landscape.
Profile: An Artist Who Explores Emotional Pain Inspires a Novel That Does the Same
Sitting in front of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art showed the author Heather Rose what it meant to be vulnerable.
Nonfiction: Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past
“How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England,” by Ruth Goodman, and “What Would Mrs. Astor Do?,” by Cecelia Tichi, are witty guides to the manners and insults of previous eras.
'Dance In America' Aims To Chronicle The Art In The U.S.
Mindy Aloff has attempted the nearly impossible task of collecting, in an anthology, the essays, excerpts, and asides that create a snapshot of the history of American dance.
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'Why We Dream' Is A Spirited, Cogent Defense Of Dreams And Dream-Telling
"If we fail to take the simple steps to remember and understand our dreams, we are throwing away a gift from our brains without bothering to open it," writes Alice Robb.
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Nonfiction: The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s “Hungover” is filled with boozy factoids, eccentric remedies and tales of alcoholic adventures on several continents.
Just How Tight Are Family Ties When Your Sister's A 'Serial Killer'?
Oyinkan Braithwaite's wry, sly debut novel follows two sisters, dowdy Korede and gorgeous Ayoola — who has a habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede cleans up her sister's messes, but for how long?
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Unseen Forces Menace 'The Houseguest'
Amparo Dávila is often described as Mexico's answer to Shirley Jackson, and The Houseguest -- her first collection to be translated into English --radiates a sense of unease and calamity.
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'Hardly Children' Is Restless And Strange — Just Like Humanity
The spare, slightly creepy off-white cover of Laura Adamczyk's debut collection is perfect for the uncomfortable stories within it, works that examine family, childhood, adulthood, gender and race.
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