Nonfiction: Unraveling the Putin Enigma
“Putin’s World,” by Angela E. Stent, seeks to put Russia’s relations with the West into long-term perspective.
Nonfiction: A History of American Jewish Women Shows How the Country Influenced Them, and Vice Versa
In “America’s Jewish Women” Pamela S. Nadell offers a sweeping historical tour, moving from colonial times through the feminist struggles and until today.
Fiction: Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries
The collection “Rag,” by Maryse Meijer, is rife with blood and violence — much of it inflicted by men on women. In the world of her fiction, there is no desire without pain.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Probes the Difficult Lives of Arab-American Women
Etaf Rum’s “A Woman Is No Man” unsnarls the dark knot of history, culture, fear and trauma that shapes the experiences of three generations of one family.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Horror: Spine-Chilling and Flesh-Crawling: The Latest Horror Fiction
There’s something for everyone here: 17th-century English witches, haunted portraits, Victorian ghost tales and a moldering Eastern European castle.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing
In “Thin Blue Lie” Matt Stroud untangles the web of law enforcement agencies, for-profit corporations and politicians that have put technology at the center of policing.
By the Book: By the Book: Richard Powers
The author, most recently, of “The Overstory” was from an early age a “fan of awe”: “I liked reading about diatoms and stars, things from four hundred million years ago or a hundred thousand years from now.”
Fiction: Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia
In “The Old Drift,” Namwali Serpell spins a multigenerational, magical-realist tale of the East African nation from colonialism to the future.
By the Book: By the Book: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The scholar and host of the PBS series “Reconstruction,” whose latest books are “Dark Sky Rising” and “Stony the Road,” is a productive beach reader: “I read more during two months on the Vineyard … than I do the entire rest of the year.”
Nonfiction: The Two Artist Couples Who Helped Launch American Modernism
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and Rebecca Salsbury coupled, fought and made some of the most influential photographs and paintings of the 20th century. “Foursome,” by Carolyn Burke, tells their story.
Fiction: ‘The Women’s War’ Is an Epic Feminist Fantasy for the #MeToo Era
In Jenna Glass’s new novel, a spell giving women control over their own fertility has far-reaching consequences.
Nonfiction: Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age
Doug Jones’s “Bending Toward Justice” is about his role in the famous 1963 church-bombing case and his experience running for senator in 2017.
Fiction: Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self
Siri Hustvedt’s autobiographical novel “Memories of the Future” uses a newly discovered journal to reconnect with her early days in New York.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: Where to Have Your Existential Crisis: Ann Arbor or Rome?
Brad Leithauser’s comic novel “The Promise of Elsewhere” sends a depressed American academic in flight to Europe. So why does he wind up in Greenland?
Nonfiction: Preet Bharara Remembers His Busy Tenure as a U.S. Attorney
“Doing Justice,” Bharara’s new book, is not only a memoir but also a manual on how the justice system is a guide to life.
The Book Review Podcast: The Life of Sandra Day O’Connor
Evan Thomas talks about “First,” his new biography of O’Connor, and Mitchell S. Jackson discusses “Survival Math.”
Nonfiction: Pretending to Play the Violin
“Sounds Like Titanic,” by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, is a memoir of being hired to tour with a famous composer who turns out to be duping his audiences.
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