By the Book: By the Book: Eve Ensler
The playwright and author, most recently, of “The Apology” would invite James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt and Anaïs Nin for dinner. “Topics might include: God, death, erotica, totalitarianism.”
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: How I Got Past the Misogyny of ‘War and Peace’
The writer and artist Anya Ulinich illustrates her life-long and changing relationship with Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Nonfiction: A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com
In “The Players Ball,” David Kushner recounts the fight over a valuable domain name in the days before the internet took its current form.
Nonfiction: A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches
With “K,” our reviewer says, Tyler Kepner of The New York Times has written a “delightfully nerdy” book.
The Shortlist: New French Fiction: With an Emphasis on Food, Film and Frolics
Savor English translations of Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Cook,” Olivier Bourdeaut’s “Waiting for Bojangles” and Yannick Haenel’s “Hold Fast Your Crown.”
New & Noteworthy
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: This Debut Is a Jail Novel, but Funny
The narrator of Ryan Chapman’s “Riots I Have Known” is both a convicted murderer and a literary editor.
Nonfiction: Spend Some Time With the Winklevii
Ben Mezrich’s “Bitcoin Billionaires” focuses on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who used their Facebook windfall to buy up a lot of the cryptocurrency.
Nonfiction: A Chinese Millennial Looks Back on Her Life
In her memoir, “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China,” Karoline Kan personalizes the great changes occurring in her country.
Nonfiction: The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out Immigrants
In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America.
Nonfiction: The Life and Crimes of America’s Original ‘Welfare Queen’
In his new book, “The Queen,” Josh Levin reveals that Linda Taylor was a scammer of epic proportions, a kidnapper and possibly even a murderer.
Nonfiction: Exploring the Soul of the South
In “Spying on the South,” Tony Horwitz recreates a trip taken by Frederick Law Olmsted in the early 1850s.
Fiction: An American Pilot, a Muslim Teenager and a Talking Dog All Caught in an Absurd War
“Red Birds,” a new novel by the Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif, satirizes America’s never-ending military conflicts in the Middle East.
Nonfiction: The First Presidential Impeachment
Brenda Wineapple’s “The Impeachers” is a revealing history of the trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Nonfiction: Singing the Praises of ‘Big Business’
Tyler Cowen’s new book delivers a “love letter” to capitalism, a system he argues is better than all the rest.
Fiction: Here Come the Brides: A Free-Spirited Fictional Wedding
Leah Hager Cohen’s novel “Strangers and Cousins” uses a vibrant, anarchic family wedding to explore the way change can be both celebrated and feared.
Knopf Fires High-Profile Editor Over Policy Breach
The publishing house dismissed Gary Fisketjon, a longtime editor who worked with such literary stars as Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard and Cormac McCarthy.
Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels. But His True Subject Was Moral Weakness.
In his two World War II novels of the 1970s, Wouk — who died this week — brought psychological insight to genocide, its perpetrators and bystanders. Adelle Waldman explains.
Nonfiction: What to Do When You’re a Country in Crisis
In “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond asks whether countries can draw lessons from how individuals confront personal difficulties.
The Book Review Podcast: Harper Lee’s Unwritten True-Crime Book
Casey Cep discusses “Furious Hours,” and Eliza Griswold talks about “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.”
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