Fiction: Greece’s Fear and Yearning Crystallized in Fiction
“Good Will Come From the Sea,” a story collection by Christos Ikonomou, captures the desperation of his country’s citizens in the wake of economic devastation.
By the Book: By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson
The author, most recently, of the memoir “Shout” doesn’t shun any genres: “That’s like avoiding colors or parts of the flavor spectrum. I want all kinds of stories on my plate.”
Nonfiction: Isaac Mizrahi Found Freedom Through Fashion
In his memoir, “I.M.,” the designer recalls his climb from Brooklyn misfit to American design icon.
Nonfiction: Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity
In “Figuring,” Popova roams over 400 years of science and poetry, highlighting women who have added to the history of creativity and invention.
Nonfiction: Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance
Lynne Olson’s “Madame Fourcade’s Secret War” tells of a woman who led the fight against the Nazis while combating sexism among her colleagues.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: When Science Fiction Comes True
Sci-fi writers gave us satellite communication, army tanks, tablets, CCTV and the internet — before these things existed in real life. What explains their powers of foresight?
Fiction: Leila Aboulela’s American Debut Collects Stories of the Muslim Immigrant Experience
“Elsewhere, Home” gathers perspectives from Aberdeen to Cairo in a much-needed nod to the universality of the human condition.
Books News: Scholar of the Marshall Plan Wins American History Book Prize
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” has won the New-York Historical Society’s prize for the best work of American history.
Nonfiction: A New York Times Lawyer Looks Back at His Most Memorable Cases
David McCraw’s “Truth in Our Times” is a behind-the-scenes report on one newspaper’s legal battles with the Trump administration and others.
Fiction: A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories
David Means’s latest collection, “Instructions for a Funeral,” is filled with adulterers and criminals, railroad bums and wharf rats and other castaways.
Nonfiction: A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots
In “The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges,” Aatish Taseer mourns the politicization of traditional Hindu values and the rise of religious bigotry.
Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews of Classic Books From The Times’s Archive
We called “Sister Carrie” a book “one can get along very well without reading,” dismissed “Lolita” as “dull, dull, dull,” and had nothing nice to say about “Howards End.”
Fiction: A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone” uses a young man’s search for his personal ancestry as a way of unearthing hidden aspects of his country’s violent past.
The Book Review Podcast: A Violent Summer in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz discusses “An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago,” and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, “The Wall.”
Essay: Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump?
Parodies of the president proliferate in books and on TV. But how do you ridicule a man who seems to have mastered the strategies of those who would hold him to account through humor?
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: The Enduring Power of “Tuck Everlasting”
The artist Tillie Walden pays graphic homage to the classic children’s book.
From Our Archives: When Janet Malcolm Surveyed the World of Psychoanalytic Training
In her 1981 book “Psychoanalysis,” Malcolm explores psychiatry and mental health.
Children’s Books: Graphic Novels That Will Keep Kids Reading
Jerry Craft’s tale of an artistic black kid navigating a mostly white prep school, and Lincoln Peirce’s new series about a medieval girl who longs to be a knight.
The Shortlist: Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels
Greek gods prowl the First World War. Medieval French nuns become executioners. A future U.S. rounds up Muslims. A scorned aristocrat pulls off the ultimate heist.
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