Children’s Books: Bringing Favorite Fairy Tales Up to Date
These new takes on beloved old stories deliver empowered princesses and racial diversity while staying true to the genre’s stark, dangerous heart.
The Shortlist: Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray
Four reminiscences of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, from farming communities in California and South Dakota to the suburbs of New York.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Crime: Video Gaming Turns Murderous, Even if You Play by the Rules
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column enters a dangerous online world, then jumps to a very real drug gang, a hit man in a hospital and a dog with a death sentence.
Nonfiction: The Art Market Is Exploding. This Book Profiles the Dealers Who Lit the Fuse.
A dishy look at the art world’s most powerful gallerists — including Larry Gagosian and David Zwirner — “Boom,” by Michael Shnayerson, recounts how artworks became multimillion-dollar commodities.
Nonfiction: The World According to John Waters, as Interpreted by Alan Cumming
The septuagenarian filmmaker’s latest collection of essays, “Mr. Know-It-All,” is just what its subtitle promises: “The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.”
Fiction: A Singer’s Hard Question: Can Her Career Coexist With Motherhood?
Laura Barnett’s novel “Greatest Hits” uses the creation of a retrospective album to explore a woman’s tempestuous life in music.
Nonfiction: We Have Abundant Food. Why Is Our Health — and the Planet’s — So Bad?
Bee Wilson’s “The Way We Eat Now” delves into the startling consequences of the globalization that has revolutionized our relationship to food.
By the Book: By the Book: Ani DiFranco
The singer-songwriter, whose new memoir is “No Walls and the Recurring Dream,” says her shelves contain “poetry for when my mind is spinning” and “a bunch of learn-how-to-meditate books that don’t seem to be helping.”
Fiction: In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders
In this debut collection, daily lives in the barrio bespeak a universal American condition.
Audiobooks: Hear Andrew McCabe’s Story in His Own Words, and in His Own Voice
The former F.B.I. deputy director recounts his short-lived tenure as a key player in the Trump administration.
Audiobooks: Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’
The actor brings a new, restrained lilt to James Joyce’s 1916 classic.
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.
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