Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List
Four new titles either allude to the elusive commodity or grab it by the shoulders and pin it onto the page.
Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner
“They stopped speaking to him after he wrote some pretty cruel stuff about my mom in a story published in Esquire in 1975. I wouldn’t want Truman to stay very long though, and he couldn’t have any alcohol. Actually let’s make it Truman circa 1966, not the bloated Truman of 1975.”
Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?
In “The Platform Delusion,” Jonathan Knee takes apart the magical aura that surrounds one of Silicon Valley’s biggest conceptual exports.
Newly Published, From James Baldwin to a Life-Changing Dog
A selection of books published this week.
‘Fuzz,’ by Mary Roach: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Fuzz,” by Mary Roach
What Makes Someone Seek Pain for Pleasure?
In “Hurts So Good,” Leigh Cowart explores the science and culture of masochism, from the competitive pepper-eater to the ultramarathoner to sex of a certain variety.
What if the Inca Conquered Europe? A Novel Rewrites History.
“Civilizations,” by Laurent Binet, imagines a counterhistory of the Spanish conquests.
After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns
“Palmares” — her first novel since 1999’s “Mosquito” — is an emancipation story set in 17th-century Brazil.
This Kenyan Activist Said No to ‘the Cut’
In her memoir, “The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree,” Nice Leng’ete tells the story of her courageous fight against female genital mutilation.
Is Stranger Hatred Hard-Wired Into Humans?
“Of Fear and Strangers,” by George Makari, examines the history of xenophobia, its evolution in modern times and how we might combat it.
Gabrielle Union Has Some Personal Updates
In her second memoir, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” the actor bares her struggles with fertility, rape, aging and grief.
Colson Whitehead’s Warmhearted Novel of a 1960s Crime Caper in Harlem
“Harlem Shuffle” luxuriates in the seedy spaces of late night, “when the straight world slept and the bent got to work.”
A Novel of Young Love, New York City and Coffee
In Vince Passaro’s new novel, “Crazy Sorrow,” two college students meet in 1976. Their story spans decades.
T.C. Boyle’s New Novel Looks Into the Mind of a Chimpanzee
“Talk to Me” tracks the complex relationships among a professor, his undergraduate assistant and a chimp who knows sign language.
George Washington Slept Here? Then So Will Nathaniel Philbrick.
In “Travels With George,” a book that’s part history and part travelogue, Philbrick retraces Washington’s steps in an effort to understand America’s problems then and now.
When the Criminal Is Furry and Has a Penchant for Garbage
In “Fuzz,” Mary Roach explores the tricky terrain where humans and wildlife overlap and often collide.
The False and Dangerous Promise of Humane Wars
Samuel Moyn’s “Humane” explores America’s enthusiasm for making wars more humane even if it assures us of future wars.
A Black Woman in Finance Regains Her Agency
In Natasha Brown’s slim debut novel, “Assembly,” the social critique matters more than the plot.
Banned in Her Home Country, Wendy Guerra Writes of a Lost Cuba
In “I Was Never the First Lady,” the protagonist sets out to find the mother who abandoned her, and Cuba, long ago.
Liane Moriarty’s New Novel Is a Family Saga and a Mystery
In “Apples Never Fall,” the author of “Nine Perfect Strangers” and “Big Little Lies” serves readers the tale of a missing mother and tennis pro.
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