Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO
A selection of books published this week.
The Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political Provocateur
In a revealing new biography, “The Contrarian,” the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel’s ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and beliefs.
Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity
Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.
Anne-Marie Slaughter Explains What She Has Learned From a Long Career of Public Service
Slaughter’s “Renewal” looks at how a personal transformation can lead to broader social change.
In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest novel, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race.
Back to the Future, With Books Instead of a DeLorean
Three new historical novels remind us how what happened in days, and centuries, gone by connects to the world today.
An Irreverent Novel Trains Its Gaze on Refugees and Their Rescuers
“The Wrong End of the Telescope,” by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine, examines the relationship between Middle Eastern refugees and their Western rescuers with clear eyes and trenchant humor.
Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The Body Scout,” “Light From Uncommon Stars” and “No Gods, No Monsters” tell stories of genetic dystopias, musical gifts and mythic creatures.
A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects
In “You Bet Your Life,” Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
Ruth Ozeki’s Borgesian, Zen Buddhist Parable of Consumerism
In “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” the characters are so preoccupied with material possessions that objects come to life all around them.
Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’?
In “Generation Occupy,” Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.
Colson Whitehead on ‘Harlem Shuffle’
Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses “The Magician.”
Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State
Thomas Mann spent the years during World War I composing “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” an idiosyncratic assault on democracy and reason that was recently reissued. The book’s political ideas are of little use, Christopher Beha writes, but Mann’s critique of how democracies enlist writers to serve as their social conscience resonates forcefully today.
Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King
In “The Beatryce Prophecy,” a young girl is hunted by the king because of a prophecy that she will unseat him.
Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece
“Kaleidoscope” is the stuff of dreams — glittering shards of a wondrously ungraspable story.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
They Survived, They Recovered (Mostly) ... What Next?
Three new memoirs traverse the rocky terrain between illness and everyday life.
Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin
A murder mystery on a London houseboat, a 16th-century Pacific voyage, and a deep dive into humans’ relationships with animals.
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