Nonfiction: When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher
Shrabani Basu’s “Victoria & Abdul,” now also a film starring Judi Dench, portrays the bond between the British queen and her Indian teacher.
Match Book: Illustrated Books to Help Children Embrace Their Differences
Ferdinand the peaceful bull, a blue crayon named Red and other misunderstood heroes who teach kids it’s ok to be themselves.
Nonfiction: A Trust Buster for the New ‘Knowledge Monopoly’
Franklin Foer argues that Silicon Valley is an “existential threat” to the individual and society.
Fiction: In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open
In “The Ninth Hour,” the cause of a young Irish widow and her daughter is taken up by the nuns of a Brooklyn convent.
'The Language Of Thorns' Will Ensnare You With Dark Magic
Leigh Bardugo's new The Language of Thorns is a collection of fairy tales set in the world of her Grishaverse books — a world of dangerous magic where happy endings may just involve minimal murder.
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Hunger, Both Physical And Emotional, In 'The Comfort Food Diaries'
Emily Nunn's sharp memoir chronicles an epic road trip she took in search of comfort — culinary and otherwise — after losing her job, her brother and her fiance and a descent into alcoholism.
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From Dinner Parties To Spy Rings, 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' Bursts With Detail
Jason Fagone's biography of pioneering code-breaker Elizebeth Friedman — who, with her husband William, helped catch both smugglers and Nazis — is the story of a fascinating woman in perilous times.
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Profile: The World According to Dan Brown
A visit with Dan Brown, whose new novel — as with all of his works — doesn’t shy away from the big questions, but rushes pell-mell into them. In “Origin,” the question is: Can science make religion obsolete?
Profile: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual
“Between the World and Me,” Coates’s treatise on black male life in America, catapulted him to prominence. Coates spoke to The Times about his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power,” his year in Paris and what he’s up to next.
The Book Review Podcast: Recent Romances
Robert Gottlieb talks about new romance novels, and Celeste Ng discusses her new novel, “Little Fires Everywhere.”
The Shortlist: The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines
Three recent books revisit the works of literary forebears to revive characters and contexts from centuries past.
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Gucci Mane’s Inspirational Guide to Self-Improvement (in Prison)
In “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane,” the Atlanta rapper details how exercise and books helped him improve himself behind bars.
Crime: The Latest and Greatest in Crime Fiction
New mysteries include Anne Perry’s “An Echo of Murder” and Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird.”
Fiction: An ‘Antigone’ for a Time of Terror
In Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Home Fire,” British Muslims contend with identity, terrorism and divided loyalties.
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Onward and Upward Path in 1980s New York
Vivian Gornick reviews Adam Gopnik’s memoir, “At the Strangers’ Gate,” which intertwines his early professional life with the city’s cultural history.
Nonfiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Visions for His Daughter
In “Autumn,” addressed to his unborn child, the Norwegian writer focuses on the household preoccupations of middle age, shorn of novelistic glamour.
Nonfiction: The Transcontinental Life of an 18th-Century Woman of Letters
Based on volumes of Lady Anne Barnard’s private and published writing, “Defiance,” by Stephen Taylor, reveals the inner world of a quiet revolutionary.
Man of ‘Gotham’ Returns
“Gotham” — a 1,400-page radical history of New York — was an unlikely hit. Now, 20 years later, Mike Wallace has finished Volume II. And he’s still not done.
Letters to the Editor
Geoffrey C. Ward, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vanessa Grigoriadis respond to reviews.
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