Ivory Tower: Is Blockchain Technology Overhyped?
Two books by legal scholars argue that the revolutionary promise of the new database tool has been exaggerated.
Fiction: A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller
Whitney Scharer’s “The Age of Light” tells the story of the journalist and model who was often overshadowed by her lover and collaborator Man Ray.
Nonfiction: Exploring Her Own Experience of Psychosis
In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang unravels a long history of coming to terms with mental illness.
From Our Archives: Revisiting George W. Bush’s Memoir “A Charge to Keep”
Our reviewer called the 1999 book “a puzzling exercise.”
Crime: Stalkers and Dead Wedding Guests: The Latest in Crime Novels
Marilyn Stasio’s column covers new books from established crime-writing giants, like Jonathan Kellerman, and a newcomer, Alex Michaelides.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: How Wild Was Wild Bill Hickok? A Biographer Separates Life From Legend
Tom Clavin’s “Wild Bill” details the life of a legendary gunfighter whose real name wasn’t even Bill.
52 Books for 52 Places
Explore the cities, countries, regions and states in Travel’s “52 Places to Go in 2019” through these books.
By the Book: ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book
The journalist, whose new book is “Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays,” read indiscriminately in her youth: “Bookish children are not critics. They just like to read.”
Nonfiction: The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump?
In Amy Greenberg’s “Lady First,” Sarah Polk — the wife of President James K. Polk — emerges as a powerful strategist who wielded her status with a velvet vengeance.
Nonfiction: How the Parkland Shooting Led to a Generation’s Political Awakening
In his book “Parkland,” Dave Cullen follows the survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on their quest to change gun laws and heal themselves.
Nonfiction: Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything
In “Walk This Way,” the reporter Geoff Edgers tells the story of a crucial moment in the history of pop music.
Fiction: In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism
“We Cast a Shadow,” a first novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, is a hilarious and profound meditation on racial bias, and how it warps our capacity for love.
Fiction: A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling
“Bowlaway,” Elizabeth McCracken’s first novel in 18 years, is a family saga, a burlesque chronicle of eccentrics and a fractured, fanciful fable.
Books News: Get a First Look at the Cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Forthcoming Novel
“The Water Dancer,” out in September, is about an enslaved man whose life is altered by a near-death experience.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Shortlist: Five Essay Collections by Women of Color
Urgent new reading on the subjects of race and gender disparities in America.
Nonfiction: A Grieving Woman’s Eloquent Homage to Virginia Woolf
In “All the Lives We Ever Lived,” Katharine Smyth revisits “To the Lighthouse” for comfort and insight after the death of her father.
Fiction: A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows
Thomas Mallon’s “Landfall” imagines the goings-on inside the Bush White House.
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