Nonfiction: A Political Movement, Defining Itself by What It Hates
In “Alt-Right,” Mike Wendling provides a guide to America’s extreme right.
Children’s Books: If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books?
The latest from Sophie Blackall, David Wiesner and Jillian Tamaki show the form at its sophisticated best. They’re a treat for grown-up readers, too.
Visuals: John Ashbery, a Poet With Paper and Glue
A new book pairs some of Ashbery’s poems with the sophisticated and playful visual collages he also made over the course of his career.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not.
The stories in Tatyana Tolstaya’s new collection, “Aetherial Worlds” — which flit between real and imaginary realms — light up with flashes of pure transcendence.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'The Chandelier' Is A Stop-Motion, Shaggy Dog Masterpiece
Brazilian modernist Clarice Lispector's second novel, written when she was 26, is an essentially story-free story, fragmentary and obsessed with the nature of thought — but it will carry you away.
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Nonfiction: A Memoir of Near-Death Experiences
Maggie O’Farrell’s “I Am I Am I Am” recounts a life lived on the brink of dying.
By the Book: John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book
The historian John Lewis Gaddis, whose new book is “On Grand Strategy,” finds train videos relaxing: “I especially recommend the six-hour run from Omsk to Novosibirsk, on which nothing happens.”
Nonfiction: Meet the Dreamers Who Walked 1,500 Miles to Stay in America
“The Making of a Dream,” by Laura Wides-Muñoz, recounts the long and unfinished battle for immigration reform through the stories of young activists.
Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder? Try Forest Bathing
Positive scientific results aside, the idea of shinrin-yoku shouldn't be surprising: Who hasn't felt an inner sense of well-being when walking along a forest trail? asks commentator Marcelo Gleiser.
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Love (And Music And Glitter) Saves The Day In 'Space Opera'
In Catherynne M. Valente's new novel, a washed-up glitter punk musician has to save all humanity by singing in an intergalactic version of the Eurovision Song Contest. (Also, there are murderhippos.)
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'Two Sisters' Leave Home For Syria, Tearing A Family Apart
Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad's new book is a heartbreaking but necessary account of two teenage sisters from a moderate Muslim family who fled to war-torn Syria after becoming radicalized.
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Nonfiction: What’s a Zucchini? And Other Questions Americans Once Asked
Daniel Stone’s “The Food Explorer” tags along with a world-traveling Gilded Age botanist whose agricultural discoveries changed the American diet.
50 Years Later, '2001: A Space Odyssey' Is Still A Cinematic Landmark
Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction epic — which opened to mixed reviews in 1968 — unknowingly foreshadowed the future of effects-driven blockbusters.
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Nonfiction: A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’
Lauren Slater’s new book chronicles the history of mood-regulating drugs, weaving in her own lifelong struggle to get well and stay well.
Meg Wolitzer Asks The Big Questions In 'The Female Persuasion'
At the start of Meg Wolitzer's new novel, a young woman is groped at a fraternity party — and her question, "Why is it like this, and what are we supposed to do about it?" echoes through the book.
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'Look Alive Out There' Elevates Its Anecdotes With Humor And Feeling
Sloane Crosley returns to form with her first essay collection in eight years, covering everything from an escalating battle with her neighbor's hip but noisy children to mountain climbing in Ecuador.
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Fiction: Real Estate, Parking and Violence: A Novel of New York
The married couple in Anna Quindlen’s “Alternate Side” would seem to have everything. But their reactions to a neighborhood attack prove otherwise.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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