America’s Dismal Foreign Policy — and What to Do About It
Andrew Bacevich’s “After the Apocalypse” analyzes the role of the United States in the world and concludes major changes are needed.
Katie Kitamura Talks About ‘Intimacies’
Kitamura discusses her new novel, and James Lapine talks about “Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created ‘Sunday in the Park With George.’”
‘One of You Is a Monster’
In her latest column, Sarah Weinman explores four new novels, each dark in a different way.
The Lifesaving Power of Storytelling
In Donna Barba Higuera’s dystopian novel, “The Last Cuentista,” folk tales are a girl’s only hope of leading her brainwashed shipmates out of darkness.
A Chinese American Girl Learns That Her Name Contains Multitudes
Meilan, the protagonist of Andrea Wang’s debut middle grade novel, is really many Meilans — each inspired by a different Chinese character that sounds like her name.
The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More
“Bleak, modernist stuff! And yet revisiting that litany of betrayals and cruelties never fails to stir my spirits.”
A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation
The narrator of Ashley Nelson Levy’s debut novel, “Immediate Family,” grapples with infertility and with a brother who’s never quite fit in.
In Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play?
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut, “Radiant Fugitives,” sets an intimate family story against the Obama-era backdrop it can’t escape.
New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Appalachian Trail, the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The American Resistance Leader Executed on Hitler’s Orders
In the 1930s, Rebecca Donner’s great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack helped organize a clandestine circle of anti-Nazi resisters in Berlin. In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Donner tells Harnack’s story.
From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California
The author set many of the stories in his posthumously published debut, “Afterparties,” in and around his native Stockton.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A ‘Quiet Zone’ Without Wi-Fi or Cellphones Should Be an Idyll. But Is It?
In his new book, Stephen Kurczy ventures to a town in West Virginia that is ostensibly off the electronic grid and he finds a more complicated reality.
A Memoir of Pretending to See
In “Blind Man’s Bluff,” James Tate Hill opens up about the measures he took to avoid admitting that he had lost his eyesight.
If You Name Your Book ‘Not a Happy Family,’ People Will Buy It
Shari Lapena’s latest thriller is on the hardcover fiction list, kids are in Halloween mode and other news from the world of best-sellerdom.
Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding
A selection of recently published books.
The Two Economists Who Fought Over How Free the Free Market Should Be
Nicholas Wapshott’s “Samuelson Friedman” looks at a feud that continues to define the economic direction of the United States.
Osama bin Laden, the Fanatical Terrorist and the Devoted Family Man
With fresh material from bin Laden’s hide-out, Peter Bergen, in “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden,” gives us a three-dimensional portrait.
The Pressures and Privileges of Being a Parent in 2021
Three new books delve into the choices faced by modern families.
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