A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History
Fintan O’Toole talks about “We Don’t Know Ourselves,” and Julie Otsuka discusses “The Swimmers.”
Dazzling New Short-Story Collections
Three dazzling new short-story collections rattle and shake with horror and heartbreak.
Steward Brand’s Long, Strange Trip
John Markoff’s “Whole Earth” traces Brand’s career, from counterculture impresario to management consultant.
New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Preteen Angst, Swedish Style
Even utopian Sweden has mean girls, but in Kristina Sigunsdotter’s “The Secrets of Cricket Karlsson” theirs is a kinder, quirkier cruelty.
Karina Yan Glaser’s First Non-Vanderbeekers Novel
“A Duet for Home” interweaves the story lines of two music-loving preteens living in a South Bronx homeless shelter.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jeremy Denk’s Memoir Features Music, Love and More Music
In “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” the concert pianist recalls his artistic and erotic awakening.
New Mysteries and Crime Fiction
The note — found at a murder scene in Simone St. James’s spine-tingling new novel, “The Book of Cold Cases” — seemed to implicate one woman. Or did it?
Be Not Afraid? Seth Meyers Thinks That’s Baloney.
In his best-selling picture book, the comedian shows how fear and anxiety can fold in the face of teamwork.
Audiobooks, Translations, and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore
Shields used to idolize Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” But these days it “feels to me sort of twee. ... I need more comedy, more urgency, more white space.”
Newly Published, From ‘Star Trek’ to Ferdinand Magellan
A selection of books published this week.
Two Forgers and a Small Crocodile Walk Into a Sauna
In María Gainza’s mystery “Portrait of an Unknown Lady,” the truth of Buenos Aires’s shady art underworld is in the eye of the beholder.
Book Review: ‘Flipped,’ by Greg Bluestein
Greg Bluestein’s “Flipped” argues that Georgian voters are turning away from the Republican Party.
For Russian Aristocrats, Paris Was a Glittering Expat Playground — Until 1917
Helen Rappaport’s “After the Romanovs” explains why Paris became the gravitational center for exiles both before and after the Russian Revolution.
A Return to Even Less Enlightened Eras
Three new historical novels whisk readers back to the Civil War, World War II and medieval times.
Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts
In her 24th novel, “French Braid,” Tyler works on a bigger canvas than usual to explore the costs and rewards of family life amid secrets, distance and stifled ambition.
Children’s Books by Black Authors: A Reading List
A reading list hints at the richness and breadth of African American children’s writing before Brown v. Board of Education.
The Science Behind Mental Afflictions
Sara Manning Peskin talks about “A Molecule Away From Madness,” and J. Kenji López-Alt discusses “The Wok.”
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