Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction
Akhtar discusses “Homeland Elegies” and Marc Lacey talks about “Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, and “The Violence Inside Us,” by Chris Murphy.
New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash
Three new collections explore the abuses, hypocrisies and awkwardnesses of living in this country today.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s
In her new book, “Just Us,” the poet and essayist repeatedly asks how race is understood and manifested in American culture.
The Back Story Behind ‘Transcendent Kingdom’: Yaa Gyasi Is a Solid Friend
Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist’s lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator.
Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels
“Just tell me who did it.”
Revisiting the ‘Violent Ballets’ of Jack Kirby
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park explores books capturing Kirby’s life and work, including a new biography by Tom Scioli.
Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers
Isaiah Dunn has a superhero alter ego who gets his powers from eating beans and rice. Nnamdi is transformed by his anger into a seven-foot-tall hulk.
From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner
Alex Ross’s “Wagnerism” is “a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians — resonances and reverberations of one art form into others.” Reviewed by John Adams.
The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America
Two new memoirs, Alicia Elliott’s “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” and Toni Jensen’s “Carry,” sketch harrowing portraits of Native life today.
The Man Who Made Us Feel for the Animals
In “A Traitor to His Species,” Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.
In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience
“Silence Is My Mother Tongue” witnesses a young brother and sister coming of age in a Sudanese refugee camp.
‘Agent Sonya,’ by Ben Macintyre: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Agent Sonya,” by Ben Macintyre
‘The Abstainer,’ by Ian McGuire: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Abstainer,” by Ian McGuire
The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election
Vigdis Hjorth’s “Long Live the Post Horn!” follows a 35-year-old woman through an identity crisis — and a campaign in support of postal workers.
Why Government Is Failing the People It Is Supposed to Serve
“The Wake-Up Call,” by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, criticizes the performance of Western governments and suggests ways to improve it.
The Future of Energy
Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map” is a comprehensive look at the world of energy, its past, present and future.
The Bumbling 1960s Data Scientists Who Anticipated Facebook and Google
In “If Then,” the historian Jill Lepore recounts the story of the Simulmatics Corporation, which tried to use primitive computing power to shape Americans’ behavior.
The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond
Ian McGuire’s historical novel “The Abstainer” pits an Irish separatist against a police constable in 19th-century England.
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