Fiction: A Devastating Friendship Forged in India’s Underbelly
After being drawn into the world of human trafficking, two Indian girls encounter relentless cruelty at home and abroad in Shobha Rao’s novel, “Girls Burn Brighter.”
Fiction: A Novel of Sri Lanka’s Civil War, in Lush Tropical Detail
Roma Tearne’s “Brixton Beach,” a multigenerational family story, touches on sectarian strife in Sri Lanka and the nostalgia that comes after leaving home.
Nonfiction: What We Get Wrong About Animals
From the marvelous to the utterly bizarre, the astonishing diversity of life is on display in Lucy’s Cooke’s “The Truth About Animals.”
Nonfiction: Downloadable Neurons, Life on Mars: A Physicist’s View of Where We’re Headed
Michio Kaku goes long in his new book, “The Future of Humanity,” imagining the frontiers of possibility. Given enough time, he says, we might become as the gods.
The Book Review Podcast: David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’
Sedaris talks about his latest book, and Alisa Roth discusses “Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.”
Military History: Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future
Several new books examine methods of conducting war, from the days of George Washington to the latest developments in cyberwarfare.
Philip Roth’s Best Book
20 novelists, critics and historians make their case.
Crime: Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities
In Marilyn Stasio’s column, a pond in Maine and a British choir loft may be crime scenes. World War II Reykjavik and modern-day Glasgow surely are.
Sketchbook | The Literati: The Sensational Rise and Fall of Truman Capote
How the success of “In Cold Blood” led to a quick fame, followed by a long infamy.
Nonfiction: David Sedaris Has a New Essay Collection. It Changed Alan Cumming’s Whole Worldview.
In “Calypso,” Sedaris delivers a caustically funny take on the indignities and banalities of everyday life, Cumming writes.
Inside the List: ‘I’m the One You Want to Sit Next to When Things Are Dull’
Sweet-and-sour humor permeates Dorothea Benton Frank’s latest Southern comedy of manners, “By Invitation Only.”
New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: The French Revolution Made Him an Exile, and a Writer
Alex Andriesse’s translation of “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave, 1768-1800” follows François-René de Chateaubriand from Europe to America and back.
Our back pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Tina Brown on Truman Capote‘s brilliant and tragic life.
Fiction: 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus.
In “All for Nothing,” the German writer Walter Kempowski confronts a long-simmering trauma: the plight of the country’s civilian refugees during World War II.
Nonfiction: The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’
Corey Pein delves into the dark heart of the tech industry, where most are destined not to make it.
The Shortlist: Wild Animals Gallop, Swim and Scamper Their Way Through These Books
Three new books tell the story of jellyfish, mustangs and all the many creatures an impassioned veterinarian might encounter.
Fiction: In the Colorado Desert, a Debut Novelist Finds a Metaphor for Israel and Palestine
Heather Abel’s novel, “The Optimistic Decade,” takes a seat around the campfire of a back-to-the-land retreat for idealistic young activists in ’80s and ’90s America.
Children’s Books: In Katherine Applegate’s New Fantasy Novel, Extinction Is Imminent
What would it be like to be the final one of your kind? The only surviving member of a human-dog hybrid species tries to keep hope alive.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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