What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans
Thomas E. Ricks’s “First Principles” examines what the founders learned from ancient texts and how that affected the future of the country.
Book Review: ‘The Arrest,’ by Jonathan Lethem
In Lethem’s new novel, “The Arrest,” a visitor upends the pastoral, postapocalyptic lives of a farming community in Maine.
Book Review: ‘Kindred,’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
In “Kindred,” Rebecca Wragg Sykes offers a complete new story about Neanderthals, both how they lived and how they met their end.
8 Picture Books About Books
From a Kabul library bus to a Colombian garbage collector’s classics to the woman who brought Ferdinand the Bull to post-World War II Germany.
What’s Scarier, an Abandoned Boardinghouse or a Creepy Porcelain Doll?
Not much frightens Marilyn Stasio — except, as she admits in her new crime fiction column, eerie old dolls.
The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg talks about “A Traitor to His Species,” and the illustrator Christian Robinson discusses his career in picture books.
Slumber Parties: New Picture Books for Bedtime
Beautifully illustrated, and often as much incantation as story, these books are guaranteed to lull even the most wide-awake toddler.
Fantastic, Flavor-Filled Food Novels for Kids
Four new books feature Taiwanese, Pakistani, Indian and Chinese families — and the tempting cuisines they cook.
4 Books Fareed Zakaria Recommends for Today’s Political Moment
Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” is on the list: “Still the best book ever written about this country.”
Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole.
There’s butchery and blood aplenty in “The Kingdom,” but no sign of Nesbo’s beloved police detective — just two brothers who have been up to no good.
Robert Gottlieb on Dickensworld — the Great Novelist’s Grand Universe
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Robert Gottlieb considers a new book, “The Mystery of Charles Dickens,” by A.N. Wilson, and delivers his own assessment of the author’s legacy.
New in Paperback: ‘Interior Chinatown’ and ‘The Water Dancer’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Revisiting Katherine Paterson on Happy Endings in Children’s Books
In 1988, Katherine Paterson wrote in the Book Review that children need not only the happily-ever-after of fairy tales, but also “proper endings” in which “hope is a yearning, rooted in reality.”
Literature as ‘Sweet and Useful’ and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Books for Budding Art Lovers
New picture books explore the life of Keith Haring, the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the work of the Zhou brothers and much more.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Escape to Another Century! These Historical Novels Are Your Ticket
First stop, Tudor England, then on to postwar Paris and turn-of-the-century Scotland. No passport required.
Timing, Patience and Wisdom Are the Secrets to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Success
“Braiding Sweetgrass” took seven years to land on the best-seller list. Reader enthusiasm carried it down the homestretch.
A Forgotten 1950 Classic by Ludwig Bemelmans Brings New York to Life
As his Madeline books did for Paris, “Sunshine” captures a city’s quintessence.
Watery Fairy Tales
Trung Le Nguyen’s “The Magic Fish” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Little Mermaid” recast the classics.
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