Fiction: In This Novel, a Grieving Widow Becomes the Detective Hero
“The Bible of Dirty Jokes,” by Eileen Pollack, tracks a middle-aged woman’s quest to find her lost brother and her own independence.
Fiction: A War Correspondent Comes Home, Bringing War With Her
The heroine of Wendell Steavenson’s novel, “Paris Metro,” hoping to find safety for her Iraqi stepson in France, encounters danger instead.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Shortlist: Four Books Explore Various Aspects of Cities Past and Present
Ecology, eccentricity, celebrity, policy: Urban living brings it all together.
Fiction: When a Young Immigrant Vanishes in London, Can a Wildlife Biologist Help?
In Aminatta Forna’s novel “Happiness,” an American biologist and a Ghanaian psychiatrist find common ground among the urban dispossessed.
Nonfiction: How Picasso Became Picasso
In “Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World,” Miles J. Unger follows the painter’s early career, culminating in “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
Nonfiction: When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide
John Lewis Gaddis’s “On Grand Strategy” is a study of global thinking at the highest levels.
Sketchbook | The Literati: Agatha Christie Solves the Mystery of Happiness in Marriage
When the author of “Murder on the Orient Express” rode that very train on a journey toward true love.
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: Edwin Clark on “The Great Gatsby.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Otherworldly: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Amal El-Mohtar looks at new retellings of ancient tales, including a space opera, a futuristic “King Lear,” and an eco-thriller.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal.
Sloane Crosley’s third collection, “Look Alive Out There,” blends deep pathos with the author’s signature humor.
'God Save Texas' Is Essential Reading For Everyone — Even Non-Texans
Lawrence Wright is at his best in this new examination of his home state — a thoughtful, beautifully written book about a place that can be hard for outsiders to understand.
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Q&A: Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature
One’s the U.S. poet laureate. The other is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Can they bring literature to the masses?
Read The Times’s Reviews of Every Book That Won a 2018 Pulitzer
Besides the journalism prizes, the committee awarded five Pulitzers to books this week. Here are our reviews.
Fiction: A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax?
In his funny, bighearted new novel, “Anatomy of a Miracle,” Jonathan Miles skewers faith, fame and what the truth means to different people.
Nonfiction: In ‘The Woman’s Hour,’ the Battle Over the 19th Amendment Comes to Life
The deliciousness of the details in Elaine Weiss’s new book suggests that certain historical figures warrant entire novels of their own.
'How To Write,' Yes — But Alexander Chee's Latest Is More Mesmerizing Memoir
Chee does include some writing tips in his new How To Write An Autobiographical Novel -- but this collection is less a writing lesson than a deeply considered and beautifully written memoir.
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Fiction: For These Characters, Foreign Cultures Are Just Another Consumer Good
The globe-trotting cosmopolitans in Michelle de Kretser’s satirical new novel, “The Life to Come,” make a fetish of travel and prepare exotic meals with an eye to Instagram.
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