Book Review: ‘Free Market: The History of an Idea,’ by Jacob Soll
Jacob Soll’s ambitious history takes us from Cicero to Milton Friedman, but is hobbled by questionable assertions.
Book Review: ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ by Kevin Wilson
The friends at the center of Kevin Wilson’s “Now Is Not the Time to Panic” hang photocopied posters around their small Tennessee town. Chaos ensues.
Book Review: ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ by Bob Dylan
“The Philosophy of Modern Song” offers commentaries on a range of music, written in the singer’s unmistakable lyrical style.
Putting Writers’ Lives on the Reading List
It’s never too young to be inspired by Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf and the “daring original” Ruth Krauss.
Book Review: ‘The Hyacinth Girl,’ by Lyndall Gordon
Drawing on newly released letters from the poet to Emily Hale, with whom he maintained a decades-long, mostly epistolary affair, “The Hyacinth Girl,” by Lyndall Gordon, reconsiders his life and work.
Book Review: “Flight,” by Lynn Steger Strong
In Lynn Steger Strong’s third novel, “Flight,” a trio of siblings converge for their first Christmas without their mother. It’s complicated.
Book Review: ‘Unstoppable Us.’ by Yuval Noah Harari
In “Unstoppable Us,” he presents the provocative ideas that drove his 2015 best seller, “Sapiens,” without dumbing them down.
Books That Teach Children About War Without Frightening Them
Four new picture books tackle the subject in sensitive, reassuring ways.
Book Review: ‘Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern,’ by Neil Baldwin
The most revealing statements in a new biography come from the dancers who gave their lives and bodies to her experiments.
Books on Democracy Under Threat
It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
Steps in the Left Direction
Playbooks for political change from Robert Kuttner and Eric Holder, and a historian’s warning about the heart of the resistance.
Book Review: ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party,’ by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins
From schools to free food and health care, the group’s majority female membership carried out life-sustaining, grass-roots programs that went far beyond politics.
Book Review: “We All Want Impossible Things,” by Catherine Newman
In her novel “We All Want Impossible Things,” Catherine Newman achieves the near-impossible: a story about death, with humor.
Adaptations of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Are Proliferating
Suddenly, remakes and adaptations of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” series are proliferating.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: ‘Shanda,’ by Letty Cottin Pogrebin; ‘A Girlhood,’ by Carolyn Hays; ‘The Family Outing,’ by Jessi Hempel
From lost children to sexual and gender identity, moral crises abound.
Bono By the Book Interview
“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women,” says the singer and frontman for U2, whose new memoir is “Surrender.” “I still do.”
Bono By the Book Interview
“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women,” says the singer and frontman for U2, whose new memoir is “Surrender.” “I still do.”
Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
Nothing is more satisfying than the emotional combustion of characters who were meant to be together.
Books on Democracy to Understand Increasing Threats
It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
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