Nonfiction: Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders
In “The Recovering,” the novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison explores her own alcoholism and the struggle to make art out of giving up drinking.
'And Now We Have Everything' Charts The Emotional Extremes Of An Ordinary Pregnancy
Memoirs now tend toward the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Meaghan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.
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Beautiful But Heartrending, 'The Only Story' Looks Back At Love Gone Wrong
Julian Barnes' latest novel concerns the pained recollections of an aging Englishman's life-changing only love — the "only story" that really matters about him.
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters
In “Maker of Patterns,” the renowned physicist presents his correspondence, revealing observations about the great minds of the 20th century.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters
Fiction that runs the gamut from horror and fantasy to science fiction and mystery, all told from a nonwhite perspective.
Fiction: Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
Have A Spring Fling With These 3 April Romances
As we wait endlessly for spring to really spring, we're consoling ourselves with three new romances — from a designing duke to a spymaster to a straight-laced librarian who lets go for one night.
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Children’s Books: Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People
Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander, Juan Felipe Herrera and Naomi Shihab Nye write unforgettable verse about love, loss and the pain and joy of growing up.
The Book Review Podcast: Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens
Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”
In 'A Higher Loyalty,' James Comey Describes An 'Unethical, Untethered' President
NPR's Ron Elving says the former FBI director's new memoir is unlikely to convert the committed partisans on either side. Instead, it may well cause further entrenchment.
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An Illustrated Tribute to ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’
Sergio García Sánchez reimagines the 19th-century tale of a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.
Nonfiction: The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats
Susan Ronald’s “A Dangerous Woman” is an energetic biography of Florence Gould and a terrific window into the life of the superaffluent.
Nonfiction: Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan” depicts the complicated politics and colorful cast of statesmen, spies and economists behind America’s intervention in midcentury Europe.
Nonfiction: A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
Ben Austen’s “High-Risers” assesses the dire consequences of segregated low-income residential developments across the nation.
The Shortlist: How Endangered Is American Democracy?
Four new books discuss current threats to our political system.
Fiction: In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life
John Edgar Wideman brings a potent mix of the personal, political and historical to his new collection, “American Histories.”
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Turning Basketball Lovers Into Book Lovers, a Stanza at a Time
Kwame Alexander’s last novel — “The Crossover,” a Newbery-winning, hip-hop- inflected tale of sports-loving twin boys — was written in verse. So is his new one, a prequel called “Rebound.”
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: corporate tyranny in Richard Powers’s “Gain.”
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