Nonfiction: Healing the Divisions in Our Country
Arthur C. Brooks, in “Love Your Enemies,” offers advice on how to restore civility to American politics.
Nonfiction: His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them.
The essays in “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” recount Damon Young’s evolution from blogger to Established Magazine Writer even as he searches for his authentic self.
Nonfiction: Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster
Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl” explores the causes of the Chernobyl explosion, and Kate Brown’s “Manual for Survival” considers the consequences.
Nonfiction: The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case
In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
Nonfiction: Why Are We Feeling So Bad When Life Is So Good? Two Books Want Us to Accentuate the Positive
“The Right Side of History,” by Ben Shapiro, and “Clear and Present Safety,” by Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko, declare current pessimism is totally overblown.
Poetry: A Poetic Body of Work Grapples With the Physical Body at Risk
In “The Tradition,” Jericho Brown witnesses and celebrates vulnerability and resilience in a country that too often scorns or condemns them.
Fiction: A Peerless Chronicler of the 1970s and ’80s Turns Her Gaze on Generation Y
Ann Beattie’s new novel, “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” follows its protagonist from prep school in 2001 into his 30s today.
Nonfiction: Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding
Brian Switek’s “Skeleton Keys” takes a close look at our 206 bones and how they allow us to “stomp, fly, swim, slither, dig, run.”
The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth
From melting ice to diminishing populations, these books look at the effects of climate change and humans’ shifting relationship with our planet.
Nonfiction: Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope
In “Horizon,” the eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia.
Nonfiction: A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers
Clive Thompson’s “Coders” demystifies the work done to create the algorithms and programs that have come to dominate our world.
Fiction: The Mysteries of Friendship, Illuminated by Spooky Quantum Physics
Nell Freudenberger’s eloquent new novel, “Lost and Wanted,” invokes cutting-edge science and the supernatural to plumb the ineffable in human relationships.
The Week in Books
Salman Rushdie on a “dazzling” debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the birth of American Modernism and more.
The Book Review Podcast: Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law
Bharara discusses “Doing Justice,” and Senator Doug Jones talks about “Bending Toward Justice.”
Inside the List: The Debut Novel That Rules the Best-Seller List
“Where the Crawdads Sing,” which came out last August, got an initial boost from Reese Witherspoon. It’s now sold over 1.5 million copies.
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Comic Look at Nixon’s ‘Marihuana’ Report
The graphic novelist Box Brown looks at the government report that anticipated our current debates about the legalization of weed.
New in Paperback: ‘No Turning Back,’ ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: Kids Searching for the Complicated Truth
On the cusp of their teenage years, the protagonists of these novels deal with death in the family, remembered childhood trauma and many varieties of parental pressure.
Nonfiction: The Poet Family Who Were Icons of Spanish Nationalism
“The Age of Disenchantments,” by Aaron Shulman, chronicles the turbulent lives of Leopoldo Panero, the unofficial poet laureate of Francoism, and his wife and children.
Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels
In Julie Langsdorf’s “White Elephant,” Nickolas Butler’s “Little Faith” and Benjamin Markovits’s “A Weekend in New York,” you’ll find squabbling siblings, rebellious daughters and more.
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