The Trouble With Identity Politics
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Secrets of Erin Morgenstern’s Success: Say No to the Internet. Say Yes to Video Games.
It took eight years, but the author of “The Night Circus” is back, and she has another bestseller.
What Makes a Popular Song Great?
Rob Kapilow’s “Listening for America” explains how to distinguish good from bad in the Great American Songbook.
A Book Version of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ Is Even Darker Than the Movie
Guillermo del Toro and his co-writer, Cornelia Funke, stay faithful to the script, but ramp up the bleakness in this tale of a princess living through a brutal war.
Meeting the Brother Who Can’t Remember Her
In Thanhha Lai’s “Butterfly Yellow,” a Vietnamese refugee finds the brother taken from her family as a toddler. Much more than just time separates them.
Why Movie Musicals Work
Jeanine Basinger’s “The Movie Musical!” is an encyclopedic tribute to musicals past and present.
Round Trip With the King of Pop Art
In Andy Warhol’s diaries, first published 30 years ago, the legendary bon vivant kept meticulous track of cab fare.
Jane Austen Has Left the Building — and So Have Dickens and Waugh
In “Novel Houses,” Christina Hardyment conducts tours of 20 famous fictional dwellings and the real places that inspired their creators.
Langston Hughes on James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’
In 1958, Langston Hughes wrote for The Times about “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin’s 1955 collection of essays meditating on race in America and Europe.
Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir
Deirdre Bair’s memoir, “Parisian Lives,” takes readers behind the scenes as, early in her career, she grapples with two towering literary figures.
New in Paperback: ‘Vietnam’ and ‘Upstream’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Arkady Renko Has Been Sent to Siberia. And He’s Fine With That.
Martin Cruz Smith’s latest Russian thriller leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column, which also includes a new Jack Reacher novel from Lee Child.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Randall Munroe Loves Outdated Views of the Future
“Seeing what people worried about or complained about a hundred years ago always gives a lot of perspective,” says the creator of the web comic XKCD, whose new book is “How To.”
Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse
In his latest novel, Benjamin Markovits revisits the Essinger family, this time at their home in Texas. Luckily for the reader, their lives are far from perfect.
Jamaica: A Small Nation With an Outsize Global Influence
Orlando Patterson’s “The Confounding Island” is a sociologist’s analysis of his birthplace as well as a personal memoir of affection and failure.
How to Beat the Market
Gregory Zuckerman’s “The Man Who Solved the Market” tells the extraordinary story of an investor (not named Warren Buffett) who made a fortune on Wall Street.
New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Patient Care Is Wrenching: A Psychiatrist, a Nurse and a Doctor Bare All
Three new books by medical professionals delve into the human emotions involved in tending to the gravely ill.
‘Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir,’ by Deirdre Bair: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir,” by Deirdre Bair
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