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.
The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes
“Is there a more mysterious and nefarious villain than Moriarty?”
Anthony Veasna So Made the Debut He’d Always Wanted
“Afterparties,” the much-anticipated story collection by the late writer, was a best seller in its first week on sale.
Newly Published
A selection of books published this week.
Books That Cover Two Human Constants: Time and Motion
A review of Tom Standage’s “A Brief History of Motion” and David Rooney’s “About Time” delves into our concern with moving faster and checking our clocks.
Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist
In her new memoir, “All In,” King is as concerned with political and social issues as she is with tennis.
A Memoir’s Painful Question: Where Are You From?
“Names for Light,” by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, is a memoir recounted through the stories of family members.
The Authors of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ Are Back With a New (Angry) Book
In their new work, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the feminist scholars who wrote the 1979 classic, examine literary manifestations of feminist anger from the second half of the 20th century to today.
Vinod Busjeet’s Debut Sets an Origin Story on the Island of Mauritius
In “Silent Wind, Dry Seas,” a man of Indian descent leaves his country behind to chase an American ideal of success.
The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
A new book by Eyal Press examines ethically fraught jobs on which our society depends and which we implicitly condone even as we pay other people to do them.
He Spent 14 Years at Guantánamo. This Is His Story.
“Don’t Forget Us Here,” by Mansoor Adayfi with Antonio Aiello, is the memoir of a Yemeni man who claims he was kidnapped in Afghanistan, sold to the C.I.A. and sent to the detention camp in a case of mistaken identity.
The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse
“Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation as a major innovator.
Three Short Story Collections That Use Humor to Overcome Hardship
New story collections from Chris Stuck, Simon Rich and Jaime Cortez.
How America Lost Its Way in Afghanistan
Two new books, “The American War in Afghanistan,” by Carter Malkasian, and “The Afghanistan Papers,” by Craig Whitlock, trace Washington’s long history of mistakes and miscalculations.
Covert Actions: How Espionage Has Helped Win Wars
Four new books examine some of the darker corners of World War II and the Cold War.
By Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Stories of a New Orleans That’s All but Lost
In “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You,” the city’s Black residents try to hold onto what the hurricanes and gentrifiers haven’t taken yet.
Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability
In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy.
The Phony War on Drugs
Benjamin T. Smith explains in “The Dope” why policing has failed to stop the drug trade from Mexico, and why violence keeps rising.
School Newspaper Editor Bears Witness
In Tim Lockette’s “Tell It True,” a budding journalist in a small Alabama town reports on capital punishment.
Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’
Spiotta discusses her latest novel, and Ash Davidson talks about her debut, “Damnation Spring.”
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