Nonfiction: The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes
Hilary Spurling’s “Anthony Powell” relates the life of an author who is overlooked except for one major work, the multivolume “A Dance to the Music of Time.”
Nonfiction: Of Demogorgons and Purple Worms — a Visual History of Dungeons & Dragons
In a new book about the history of the famous role-playing game, a group of authors present hundreds of visual artifacts.
Nonfiction: Three Volumes of Nature Photography Take Us Back to Earth’s Innocent Roots
“Battlefields,” by Yan Morvan, “Bears Ears,” by Stephen E. Strom, and Peter and Beverly Pickford’s “Wild Land” transport readers, through stunning images, to the farthest corners of our planet.
Nonfiction: A British Christmas: Some Translation Required
Ruth Reichl retrieves memories of her own childhood as she reviews Nina Stibbe’s guide to making it through the holidays, “An Almost Perfect Christmas.”
Nonfiction: Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Disillusioned Hit Maker
Both Turner’s “My Story,” a sequel to 1986’s “I, Tina,” and “Anything for a Hit,” from the music scout Dorothy Carvello, expose the sleazy power dynamics of the rock ’n’ roll business.
The Shortlist: 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals
Ravens, love affairs and, yes, dirty laundry all shed light on the comings and goings of British royalty.
Crime: Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column
Readers will delight in the unexpected characters in three new mysteries, from the female police cadet in Louise Penny’s new book to a crime-solving cub reporter down on his luck.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Match Book: Women and Maine
Novels, stories, mystery series and memoirs by female authors paint a variegated portrait of the Pine Tree State.
Nonfiction: The Greatest Composers Ever
In “The Indispensable Composers,” the New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini chooses the best of the bunch.
Profile: The New Booker Prize Winner Who May Never Write Again
Anna Burns, who for the last four and a half years has suffered from debilitating back pain and spent much of that time relying on state benefits, talks about the future.
The 10 Best Books of 2018
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
By the Book: Ellie Kemper: By the Book
The actress and author of the essay collection “My Squirrel Days” never finished “The Woman in White,” by Wilkie Collins: “Why did the woman wear so much white? I couldn’t sit with it long enough to find any answers.”
Books News: Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The new book, “The Testaments,” is set 15 years later and is scheduled for release in September 2019.
Fiction: In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways
“The Waiter,” by Matias Faldbakken, features a fastidious server whose old-fashioned habits come under threat.
Nonfiction: A New Life of the Bebop Legend Dexter Gordon, Written by His Wife
“Sophisticated Giant,” by Maxine Gordon, recalls the restive musical innovator who left an indelible mark on the world of jazz.
Nonfiction: A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “The Circuit” is a poet’s-eye view of tennis in 2017.
Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism
A self-titled coffee-table book — subtitled “Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness” — collects the photographer’s black-and-white images to challenge global racism.
Nonfiction: A Modern History of China, in Photographs
“Magnum China” collects decades-worth of images by Western photographers of a nation gripped by political conflict.
Nonfiction: How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York
Vivien Schweitzer’s history of the genre, “A Mad Love,” and Heidi Waleson’s intricate account of the New York City Opera, “Mad Scenes and Exit Arias,” testify to an art that inspires deep passions.
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