Nonfiction: Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity
Ian Kershaw’s “The Global Age” looks back on the extraordinary achievements of the recent past.
Nonfiction: The Many Tragedies of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff’s “Fall and Rise” is a moment-to-moment re-creation of the events of 9/11, with a focus on the people most closely affected.
The Book Review Podcast: Laila Lalami on ‘The Other Americans’
Lalami discusses her new novel, and Jenny Odell talks about “How to Do Nothing.”
Children’s Books: Short Books for Kids That Make a Big Impact
In refreshingly brief new novels, kids solve family mysteries, save younger siblings and help a grandparent break out of a hospital.
Inside the List: ‘Call Me a Science Fiction Writer. I’ll Come to Your House and Nail Your Pet’s Head to a Coffee Table.’
That quote from Harlan Ellison illustrates — quite colorfully — the long-smoldering genre snobbery debate that Ian McEwan recently entered.
The Shortlist: The Future of A.I., According to Three New Books
“The Creativity Code,” “Deep Medicine” and “Talk to Me” together reveal the wide range of influence technology does, should and will have on the human condition.
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Graphic Reimagining of ‘Robinson Crusoe’
The illustrator Sergio García Sánchez takes on Daniel Defoe’s classic, capturing the narrative’s range in a single image.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio Gets Cozy With Some Unlikely Heroines — and a Hit Man
This week’s Crime column features a mom who runs a spy operation and a female medical student in 19th-century Edinburgh. Also a hit man turned P.I.
Fiction: Repercussions From a Political Murder Play Out in a Spanish Village
In Fernando Aramburu’s novel “Homeland,” the Basque separatist movement spawns violence that shatters two families.
Fiction: Cynthia Ozick Reviews Julie Orringer’s ‘The Flight Portfolio’
The novel is based on the real-life journalist Varian Fry, who helped thousands of Jews escape from the Nazis during World War II.
New in Paperback: ‘There There,’ ‘Motherhood’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: Two Novels About Young Soviet Transplants in America
“Oksana, Behave!” and “Lights All Night Long” serve up stories of immigration and semi-integration.
nonfiction: A New Biography of Martin Buber Explores a Life of Wrestling With Faith
Paul Mendes-Flohr’s biography examines the life and legacy of the Jewish thinker and theologian.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
NonFiction: On Being Young, Gay and Addicted in the 1970s
“The Light Years,” a memoir by the artist Chris Rush, evokes his troubled youth in a wealthy Catholic family in New Jersey and his search for acceptance in the mountains of the Southwest.
Graphic Content: A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child’s Question About Being Biracial
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at Mira Jacob’s “Good Talk,” about her American identity, as well as Bill Griffith’s “Nobody’s Fool,” an origin story set on the freak show circuit.
Nonfiction: She Entered the U.S. Illegally as a Child. She Was Stabbed Nearly to Death After Being Deported.
“The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez,” by Aaron Bobrow-Strain, captures the plight of an undocumented Mexican immigrant in harrowing, novelistic detail.
By the Book: By the Book: Ruth Reichl
The food writer and author, most recently, of the memoir “Save Me the Plums” was 10 when she read Henry Miller. “If it’s over her head, she simply won’t understand it,” her mother said.
Fiction: Stewart O’Nan Returns to the Fictional Maxwell Family
“Henry, Himself” uses short vignettes to capture a year in the life of the Pittsburgh man whose shadow loomed over two earlier novels.
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