How to Read Your Way Back to Serenity
“Breaking Bread With the Dead,” by Alan Jacobs, argues that works of the past help increase our “personal density,” even when we disagree with them.
Are We More Divided Now Than Ever Before?
James A. Morone’s “Republic of Wrath” looks at political divisions throughout American history.
The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round
“Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing,” by Jacob Goldstein, is a conversational account of currency — an abstraction propped up by group faith.
When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession
In Yishai Sarid’s novel “The Memory Monster,” a tour guide to the Nazi death camps begins to unravel.
Groomed to Be President
Fredrik Logevall’s “JFK” brings the young Jack Kennedy to life with telling detail and knowing insights.
Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending
When her husband dies suddenly, a woman reckons with the life they shared.
The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis
In “Perilous Bounty,” Tom Philpott looks at the toll that industrial farming practices have taken on the health of the land.
Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror
These books — both fiction and nonfiction — celebrate the dark corners of our world.
Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers
Late summer is supposed to be a slow time for publishers, but this year there’s plenty to get your heart racing.
Two Suicidal Teens, Four Possible Paths
Aaron and Tillie are strangers, until they meet on a bridge. Bill Konigsberg’s new novel explores where four different plotlines could take them.
A Son’s Future, a Father’s Final Down
In Jacqueline Woodson’s “Before the Ever After,” a boy struggles to move forward as his pro football star father’s memory fades.
Revisiting Carol Shields and the Everywoman
In 1994, Jay Parini wrote for the Book Review about Carol Shields’s novel “The Stone Diaries,” the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett as she navigates marriage and motherhood.
Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’
Susan Minot’s new book is her second collection in 30 years. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been busy.
What’s In a Title?
It depends on where the author is in the creative process.
Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump
Toobin talks about “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Dayna Tortorici discusses Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults.”
The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times
In “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger tells the story of four philosophers — Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer and Heidegger — who altered the way we see reality.
The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery
Marilyn Stasio recommends two recently reissued novels by Seishi Yokomizo, as well as the latest books from Denise Mina and T. Jefferson Parker.
New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Want a Better Way to Think About Gender? Use Math
In “X+Y,” the mathematician Eugenia Cheng proposes using category theory to end the gender wars.
The Dangerous North Korea
Three new books examine one of the world’s most mysterious countries.
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