Audiobooks: Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
The actor, best known for his role on “The Office,” revives Norton Juster’s 1960 classic children’s story.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Set on the Brooding, Remote Kamchatka Peninsula
Julia Phillips’s “Disappearing Earth” explores the lives of interconnected women in far eastern Russia after a horrific crime.
Nonfiction: How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries
Christina Thompson’s “Sea People” tells the story of the people of Polynesia and their “discovery,” while Peter Moore’s “Endeavour” looks at the ship that made that encounter possible.
Nonfiction: Justice John Paul Stevens Looks Back on His Long Career
Stevens’s “The Making of a Justice” is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the law.
Nonfiction: In Defense of Liberalism
Adam Gopnik’s “A Thousand Small Sanities” is an argument against the illiberal left, even though Gopnik accepts some of its premises.
Fiction: An Astronaut, an Antiwar Radical and a Novelist’s Epic Vision of America
Vietnam, Watergate and the first moonwalk mark the characters in “America Was Hard to Find,” a sweeping debut novel by Kathleen Alcott.
Newsbook: Read 3 Books About Doris Day and Her Legacy
Her autobiography, a biography and a cultural critic’s take give insight into the star’s long career.
Nonfiction: A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us
In her stunning exposé “Bottle of Lies,” Katherine Eban describes a world of generic drug manufacturing rife with corruption and life-threatening misdeeds.
Nonfiction: David McCullough’s Idealistic Settlers
McCullough’s “The Pioneers” tells of the good intentions behind the creation of Ohio.
Fiction: A Heroine Checks In to the Psychiatric Ward, and Takes Notes
The depressed protagonist of Binnie Kirshenbaum’s novel “Rabbits for Food” has trouble connecting with others, but she is alert to the sanity of the insane.
Nonfiction: Grieving the Death of a Child in ‘Once More We Saw Stars’
Jayson Greene’s book is an emotional and loving tribute to his toddler daughter, Greta, killed by a falling brick in New York City in 2015.
Nonfiction: A New Mom, Her Nannies and the Often Exploitive Labor of Motherhood
“Women’s Work,” by Megan Stack, a former foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, is an unflinching look at the women who maintained her home, took care of her children and allowed her to write a book.
Nonfiction: Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution
“The British Are Coming” is a vivid, down-to-earth rendering of a conflict too often seen through rose-colored glasses.
Nonfiction: The Forgotten History of the Chinese Who Helped Build America’s Railroads
Gordon H. Chang’s “Ghosts of Gold Mountain” recalls the contribution 19th-century Chinese immigrants made to the American economy.
Nonfiction: An Economist Who Believes Only Government Can Save Capitalism
In “People, Power, and Profits” Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that more state involvement in the economy is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
From Our Archives: Revisiting the Ponzi Scheme in Mitchell Zuckoff’s ‘Ponzi’s Scheme’
In the 2005 book “Ponzi’s Scheme,” Mitchell Zuckoff tells the story of Charles Ponzi, who launched a successful and infamous money-swindling scheme in the early 1920s.
New in Paperback: ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ ‘Severance’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
New & Noteworthy
Recent books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Inside the List: What Do Reese Witherspoon, Florence Welch and Andrew Luck Have in Common?
All three have online book clubs (and they’re not the only celebrities who do).
The Book Review Podcast: The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel
George Packer talks about “Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,” and Lori Gottlieb discusses “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.”
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