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.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Children’s Books: Picture Books to Enrapture Little Readers and Listeners
A top-secret hide-out, a talking tiger, a crocodile doctor and a sad pair of socks. These lively new stories transport children to singular imaginary realms.
Sketchbook: How Questioning Hannah Arendt Made Me Question Myself
The cartoonist Ken Krimstein wrote a graphic biography of the political philosopher, and started second-guessing his own decisions.
The Shortlist: The Benevolent Power of Other People
Three new books — Nicholas Christakis’s “Blueprint,” Adam Rutherford’s “Humanimal” and E.O. Wilson’s “Genesis” — explore the biology behind human social life, suggesting that our tendency to form large groups may bring out the best in us.
Essay: The Truth About Pinocchio’s Nose
There’s more to the puppet’s story than a parable about lying.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: A Kenyan Woman Probes Ancient Links Between Africa and Asia
The heroine of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel “The Dragonfly Sea” embarks on a journey to China that will lead her back to her homeland, and a devotion to Sufism.
Fiction: A Novel That Evokes Sally Mann, Diane Arbus and Berenice Abbott
In Myla Goldberg’s “Feast Your Eyes,” a pioneering midcentury photographer juggles art and motherhood.
Nonfiction: The Last Great Freewheeling Diplomat
George Packer’s biography of Richard Holbrooke, “Our Man,” is a complex portrait of a complex man who had power, but never enough.
By the Book: By the Book: Adm. William H. McRaven
The author of “Make Your Bed” and, most recently, “Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations” says “All Quiet on the Western Front” is the one book that best “captures the nature of a soldier.”
Nonfiction: A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages
In “Mother Is a Verb,” Sarah Knott casts light on forgotten beliefs and practices that will help readers place their own views in cultural context.
Children’s Books: Elizabeth Acevedo’s New Novel Is Literary Soul Food
“With the Fire on High,” the writer’s second novel (after her award-winning “The Poet X”), tells the story of a teenage mom who’s an aspiring chef.
Nonfiction: A Blundering Churchill, a Farsighted Roosevelt
Nigel Hamilton’s “War and Peace,” the third volume of his Roosevelt trilogy, takes a revisionist look at the two wartime partners.
Fiction: In a Faux-Victorian Fantasy World, Bookbinders Capture Souls
The craftsmen in Bridget Collins’s novel “The Binding” are able to remove a person’s memories and create books full of captured experiences.
Nonfiction: ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and the Man Who Made That
“Becoming Dr. Seuss,” a new biography of Theodor Geisel by Brian Jay Jones, chronicles the famous children’s book author’s influential career, zany imagination and original rhyme schemes.
Nonfiction: What, Exactly, Do We Mean by ‘Democracy’ Anyway?
In “Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone,” Astra Taylor examines the ways, both good and bad, the concept has been defended, defined and put into practice.
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