A Dutch Novelist Pokes Holes in His Country’s Pretensions
Herman Koch’s “The Ditch” uses an insecure mayor’s doubts about his marriage to probe larger cultural uncertainties in the “civilized” Netherlands.
A Border Novel That Captures Immigrants in All Their Humanity
Oscar Cásares’s “Where We Come From” avoids easy stereotypes to offer a story about an immigrant teenager trying to reunite with his father.
Neville Chamberlain: A Failed Leader in a Time of Crisis
Tim Bouverie’s “Appeasement” describes the many ways the British government avoided standing up to Hitler.
The ‘It Books’ of Summers Past
We’ve revisited the books that defined the season over the past 50 years — and what they reveal about the country at a particular moment.
Rethinking the Epidemic of Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder talks about “No Visible Bruises,” and Josh Levin discusses “The Queen.”
Finding the Funny in Kafka
The graphic novelist Peter Kuper offers a comic about his love of Kafka’s more humorous side.
For the Tweens In These Graphic Novels, Friendship Is The Hardest Test Of All
The characters in Ryan Andrews’s “This Was Our Pact” and Kayla Miller’s “Camp” learn to master the mysterious codes of conduct and ever-changing loyalties of middle school.
Revisiting Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love,” the novelist and journalist chronicles her journey across Italy, India and Indonesia.
The Unseen Worlds Beneath Us: Places of Beauty, Danger and Wisdom
Robert Macfarlane’s “Underland” explores ancient forests, urban catacombs and buried rivers to probe the secrets of man’s often malign influence on the earth.
What’s So Funny About Old Age? Apparently a Lot
Three comic novels (H.M. Naqvi’s “The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack,” Sloane Tanen’s “There’s a Word for That” and Evan James’s “Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe”) feature protagonists on the other side of their prime.
An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
A Hunk and a Savant Walk Into a Poetry Class. …
Lucy Ives’s debut novel, “Loudermilk,” satirizes both “bro” culture and the culture of creative writing programs in one fell swoop.
Who Writes American History? And How?
Readers respond to Joseph J. Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming.”
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Finding Mercy in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre
An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
New on the Fiction List This Week: ‘Ask Again, Yes’
Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
By the Book: James Ellroy
The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.”
The Making of ‘1984,’ George Orwell’s Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth
“The Ministry of Truth,” by Dorian Lynskey, is a “biography” of the 1949 novel, an enduring icon of state power devoid of moral principle and human concern.
Ebola, H.I.V., Spanish Flu, SARS — the 20th Century’s Deadliest Hits
In “The Pandemic Century” Mark Honigsbaum covers nine outbreaks that shaped how we think and respond to diseases.
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