Nonfiction: A History of Humanity Told Through Genetics
Adam Rutherford’s engaging science book, “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived,” explains the many ways DNA links us to our ancestors.
Fiction: Bowling, Football and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nancy Pearl’s first novel, “George & Lizzie,” combines lit-crit geekiness, dentistry and team sports to create an unusual romantic comedy.
Notebook: A Day in the Life of Tina Brown
The author of “The Vanity Fair Diaries” reveals a page from her handwritten journal recounting her experiences on the day she learned of Andy Warhol’s death.
Nonfiction: Why the Greek Bailout Went So Wrong
In “Adults in the Room,” the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis describes Greece’s economic crisis from the inside.
Nonfiction: Wresting Golda Meir From the Shadows
Francine Klagsbrun’s “Lioness” re-examines the beloved prime minister’s legacy.
Nonfiction: An Expert on Warfare Examines Centuries of Evolving Mayhem
Lawrence Freedman warns in “The Future of War” that he doesn’t expect to see an end to human conflict.
Nonfiction: In ‘Nomadland,’ the Golden Years Are the Wander Years
Arlie Russell Hochschild reviews Jessica Bruder’s book about senior citizens who live out of R.V.s and work low-wage jobs.
Audiobooks: A Celebrity Couples Therapist Turns to Adultery
In a new audiobook, “The State of Affairs,” Esther Perel follows up on “Mating in Captivity” by focusing on the husbands and wives who stray.
Inside the List: Donna Brazile Says She Foresaw Clinton’s Defeat
In a best-selling campaign memoir, “Hacks,” the Democratic operative and former party chair reveals she never trusted the polls.
Nonfiction: Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide
Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” is both an analysis of a classic and a memoir of his family.
Nonfiction: A Journey of Belonging
In “Real American: A Memoir,” Julie Lythcott-Haims describes growing up biracial in a mostly white milieu.
Fiction: A Novelist Revisits a Deadly Textile Union Strike From 1929
Wiley Cash’s heroine in “The Last Ballad” is based on a real-life union organizer and folk singer now mostly lost to history.
Fiction: Life, Love and Mortality in the City of Light
A septuagenarian cellist faces down his personal and professional losses in Mark Helprin’s novel “Paris in the Present Tense.”
Nonfiction: The Day Wall Street Collapsed
Diana B. Henriques’s “A First-Class Catastrophe” is a minute-by-minute account of the stock market disaster of Oct. 19, 1987.
Nonfiction: Elizabeth Hardwick Showed What Essays Could Do
“The Collected Essays,” edited by Darryl Pinckney, reveal as much about who Hardwick was as they do about the fiction she loved.
Nonfiction: The First Modern President
Robert W. Merry’s “President McKinley” argues for the centrality of a generally forgotten chief executive.
Nonfiction: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Eric Garner’s Life and Death
In “I Can’t Breathe,” Matt Taibbi reports on the people and the policies that shaped the course of Garner’s life.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Alan Dershowitz’s review of “Scalia Speaks” and implore Ron Chernow to rethink his ideal dinner guests.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Profile: A Chinese Novelist Is Found in Translation
For Xue Yiwei, Canada was a safe haven in which to write, but now he’s finding an audience abroad that appreciates his subversive novel.
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