Nonfiction: Why Are Jews Funny?
Jeremy Dauber’s “Jewish Comedy” looks at laughter across more than 2,000 years.
Nonfiction: Dramatic Reading: A Memoir by the Director of ‘The History Boys’
In “Balancing Acts,” Nicholas Hytner remembers his time at the National Theatre in London.
Fiction: A Rich Novel That Reveals Itself Through Linked Lives
Kamila Shamsie reviews “Improvement,” by Joan Silber, a novel depicting a world that is small and capacious at once.
Fiction: Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos
“The Green Hand,” a collection of Nicole Claveloux’s work, shows off her darkly humorous, existential and erotic style.
Art Books: Julia Child, Seen Through Her Husband’s Lens
“France Is a Feast” collects 225 photographs taken by Paul Child in the years after World War II, as he and his wife explored their adopted country.
Nonfiction: In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker
Dylan Jones’s “David Bowie: A Life” captures its subject’s radically plastic persona, his capacity to accommodate any identity at will.
Nonfiction: Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction
David Ives reviews “Keeping On Keeping On,” a collection of journalism, diary entries and play prefaces.
Art Books: What Could Have Been Iconic
“Unseen,” by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns, collects images from black history that were never published by The Times.
Nonfiction: Rolling Merrily Along With Hal Prince
In his new memoir, “Sense of Occasion,” Hal Prince reports on his many hits, and also his failures.
Nonfiction: Yellowstone’s Most Famous Wolf Gets Her Own Book
In “American Wolf,” Nate Blakeslee chronicles the survival of O-Six and her home’s complex ecosystem.
Art Books: A Decade in Book Design
“Chip Kidd: Book Two” revisits the graphic artist’s influence on the literary canon of late, both inside and out.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to reviews from recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Help Desk: Among the Vulgarians
New etiquette books offer advice on how to mind your manners during uncivil times, in the White House and beyond.
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: Thomas Mallon on “A Christmas Carol.”
Nonfiction: The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I
"Calder: The Conquest of Time,” by Jed Perl, traces the sculptor’s early evolution from amateur toymaker to modernist icon.
Editors’ Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’
Written to educate young women about various industries, the books are as historically interesting as they are entertaining — sociology lesson plus soap opera.
The Pour: Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season
The top choices of this year’s wine books include an essential Champagne guide, an argument to organize wine by soil type and a thin volume of advice.
Teen Angst Has A Body Count In 'I Am Not Okay With This'
Sydney, the teenage protagonist of Charles Forsman's new graphic novel, has all the usual problems of her age, plus one: She's telekinetic. And it quickly becomes clear that her story is a grim one.
(Image credit: Fantagraphics)
Nonfiction: What Can Fashion Tell Us About Art?
In “Clothing Art: The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600-1914,” Aileen Ribeiro shows how much the depiction of fashion reveals about an artist’s world.
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