Nonfiction: Drug Epidemics, Past and Present
Thomas Hager’s “Ten Drugs” examines the history of both the good and bad of medication.
Nonfiction: The Jewish Spies Who Posed as Arabs
Matti Friedman’s “Spies of No Country” tells the story of the Arab Section, the Jewish secret agents who operated in enemy territory at the birth of Israel.
Graphic Content: Graphic Novels That Will Diagnose Your Disease
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at the genre of “graphic medicine,” comics illustrating the challenges of doctors and travails of patients.
Sketchbook |: From Jay Gatsby to Kunta Kinte
The legendary graphic designer, Seymour Chwast, draws some of his favorite protagonists.
From Our Archives: Looking Back at ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’
In his 2000 memoir, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” Dave Eggers becomes the steward of his brother after their parents die within weeks of each other.
Inside the List: Guilt, Jealousy, Empathy: Your Dog Has the Same Emotions You Do
Frans de Waal’s new book, “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves,” debuts on the best-seller list this week at No. 4.
The Shortlist: Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life
Amit Chaudhuri’s narrator wanders Mumbai while João Gilberto Noll’s loses himself in London. And Monique Schwitter’s? She’s adrift among a dozen past loves.
Children’s Books: Gorgeous Books to Expand the Youngest Minds
Dreamy marshmallows, rude animals, a portal to a mirror world and more fill the latest crop of picture books.
New in Paperback: ‘Heavy,’ ‘Do This for Me’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Reconsiderations: From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’
When Kurt Vonnegut was at work on his hugely influential antiwar novel, “he was writing to save his own life,” his daughter said.
Fiction: Using Fiction to Show How Self-Control Becomes Self-Destructive
In their debut novels, Yara Zgheib and Anissa Gray explore the harrowing experience of female eating disorders.
Fiction: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Celebrates His 100th Birthday With a Novel
“Little Boy” recounts his life story in a free association of flashes and arias, of high and low culture — the verbal riffs of a good talker.
Nonfiction: To Nosh or Not to Nosh: An Immigrant’s Dilemma
In Boris Fishman’s memoir, “Savage Feast,” mealtime is when all the rich and roiling contradictions of his Eastern European Jewish family come into play.
By the Book: Laila Lalami: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “The Other Americans” first read Zora Neale Hurston five years ago: “I was knocked out by her eye for detail.”
Fiction: An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None
In her debut collection, “Invasive Species,” the Egyptian immigrant Marwa Helal plumbs the complications of nationhood and inclusion.
Nonfiction: A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’
In “Survival Math,” Mitchell S. Jackson tells his family story of living in Oregon and reckons with the interplay of racism and patriarchy in his own life.
Fiction: A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird.
Kathryn Davis’s novel “The Silk Road” is full of provocative mysteries: Are its characters many or one? Where are they going? Have they witnessed a murder?
Nonfiction: The Complex Literary Friendship Between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
In “Zora and Langston,” Yuval Taylor revisits the relationship that laid much of the groundwork for black American literature in the 20th century.
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