Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel
“My Year Abroad” follows a young man from a transformative stint in Asia to his pursuit of happiness in a quiet American town.
Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex
The father of evolutionary theory held women to be intellectually inferior to men, with one notable exception. Michael Sims explains.
Addiction, Nampeyo and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words
Listen to the latest celebrity memoirs in (mostly) their own recognizable voices.
2 Picture Books Celebrate the Poetry and Promise of Black Lives
In “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter” and “The ABCs of Black History,” U is for Unfinished.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books
“I don’t. Often this is a problem.”
Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.”
For Hafsah Faizal, Coding Was a Gateway to Writing
The author of two young adult novels learned the language of computing when her father bribed her with a pink laptop.
A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader
In “Sybille Bedford: A Life,” Selina Hastings takes the measure of an underappreciated 20th-century novelist.
From Turkey to China to Norway, These Novels Take You Back in Time
A batch of fresh translations speaks to the universality of the human experience.
Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time?
In “Halfway Home,” Reuben Jonathan Miller draws on years of research and personal experience to write about how we understand incarceration and its afterlife.
Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism?
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at “The Black Panther Party,” a new history of the group, and “Come Home, Indio,” a memoir about growing up part Native American.
‘The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive,’ by Philippe Sands: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive,” by Philippe Sands
‘Milk Fed,’ by Melissa Broder: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Milk Fed,” by Melissa Broder
The Black American City That Almost Came to Be
“Soul City,” by Thomas Healy, recounts the remarkable story of the civil rights activist Floyd McKissick and his dream to create a Black-run town on a former slave plantation.
In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge
Stories from around the world feature murderers, ghosts and recluses.
‘Too African for Jamaica, Too Jamaican for America, Too American for Nigeria’
In “Floating in a Most Peculiar Way,” Louis Chude-Sokei recalls a life lived on the outside.
A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt
Melissa Broder’s “Milk Fed” features a troubled young woman with an eating disorder who falls for an Orthodox Jewish frozen yogurt scooper.
Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career
“Mike Nichols: A Life,” by Mark Harris, is a star-studded biography of the famous director that brims with gossip, wisecracks and showbiz lore.
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