Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
These Books Remind Us Why Parenting Is a Verb
Raising a human being requires work, energy, love — and, occasionally, advice. You’ll find sensible guidance in these books.
Book Review: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,’ by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
In “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, history is everything — an inheritance of secrets, lies, talents, betrayals, ambition, accomplishment and possibility.
There’s Something Fishy About This Refuge in the Colorado Wilds
“The Guide,” by Peter Heller, evokes a near future in which coronavirus variants have pushed America’s leisure class to the great outdoors.
A Supreme Court That Has Gone Wrong
Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Presumed Guilty” details the many ways the Supreme Court has favored the police over the accused.
How Can Colleges Handle Sexual Misconduct Cases More Fairly?
In “Sexual Justice,” Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights lawyer, homes in on the processes by which such cases are typically adjudicated — and how to improve them.
Kat Chow on How Mourning Is Like Taxidermy
In her memoir “Seeing Ghosts,” the author recounts her mother’s death and her immigrant family’s numerous migrations, separations and losses, evoking the way grief entails a particular, perpetual sorrow.
Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures
“After the Sun,” a collection by the Danish writer Jonas Eika, stretches past the limits of the ordinary.
The Fate of the Self in the Age of Clicks
In “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” the essayist and cultural critic Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how our conception of the human mind has been shaped by our tech-driven era — and what such a view leaves out.
When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who debated the origins of the universe.
The Worldwide Effort to Bar Chinese Immigration
Mai Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today.
In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life
Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary.
Life at Seven Miles Below the Sea
Helen Scales talks about “The Brilliant Abyss,” and Rebecca Donner discusses “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days.”
The Wonders That Live at the Very Bottom of the Sea
Two new books, Edith Widder’s “Below the Edge of Darkness” and Helen Scales’s “The Brilliant Abyss,” explore the darkest reaches and all that glows there.
A Doubleheader of Baseball Novels for Fans and Non-Fans Alike
Nic Stone’s “Fast Pitch” and Rajani LaRocca’s “Much Ado About Baseball” add mystery, magic and math to the lineup.
Alan Cumming, Drinking and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘The Bass Rock’ and ‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
America’s Uncertain Role in the World After 9/11
Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” explores how the attacks of 9/11 have influenced American policy over the last 20 years — and not in a good way.
The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes?
In “The Star Builders,” Arthur Turrell explores the attempt to produce clean and abundant energy through nuclear fusion.
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