Nonfiction: How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music
The second volume of Gary Giddins’s “Bing Crosby” traces the singer’s career through the war years.
Nonfiction: Delicacies of the Dining Car
“Food on the Move,” edited by Sharon Hudgins, is a collection of essays exploring the glamorous past and occasionally delectable present of dining on trains around the world.
Nonfiction: Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese
In “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” Idle remembers the Pythons and other famous friends; in “Professor at Large,” Cleese revisits his years at Cornell.
Nonfiction: Imagining What Happens When the Robots Take the Wheel
In “No One at the Wheel,” Samuel Schwartz, the onetime traffic commissioner of New York City, examines the perils of driverless cars.
Newsbook: What’s Life Really Like on the Mexican Border? These 3 Books Help Give a Sense
Dispatches from a former border patrol agent and more.
Nonfiction: Three Books Trace a History of Race Relations in America, Through Art
From the Harlem Renaissance to today, the painting and photography and poetry of black Americans have both shaped and reflected a shifting cultural landscape.
Profile: An Artist Who Explores Emotional Pain Inspires a Novel That Does the Same
Sitting in front of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art showed the author Heather Rose what it meant to be vulnerable.
Nonfiction: Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past
“How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England,” by Ruth Goodman, and “What Would Mrs. Astor Do?,” by Cecelia Tichi, are witty guides to the manners and insults of previous eras.
Nonfiction: The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s “Hungover” is filled with boozy factoids, eccentric remedies and tales of alcoholic adventures on several continents.
Page to Screen: When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun
Sign of the times? The University of Iowa, home to the famous Writers’ Workshop, now has a television-writing course.
The Book Review Podcast: The Epic Tragedy of Vietnam
Max Hastings discusses his new history of the war, and Sue Prideaux talks about the life of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Children’s Books: Keeping the Spirit of Hanukkah Alive, in Two Picture Books
One is set in the world of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family. One features talking latkes. Both capture the holiday’s promise that light will triumph over darkness.
Fiction: The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels
In “Severance,” by Ling Ma, and “We Can Save Us All,” by Adam Nemett, young people are faced with preventing, or even just surviving, impending apocalypse.
Sketchbook: A Graphic Tribute to Anne Sexton
The illustrator Katie Fricas celebrates what would have been the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s 90th birthday this month.
The Shortlist: Debut Story Collections Full of Vulnerable People and Their Pain
In three new collections, writers explore the lives of individuals testing the boundaries that separate themselves from other people.
Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s New Novel, Set at a Spa, Features Some Killer Treatments
With “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the “Big Little Lies” author has delivered another ambitious, darkly comic thriller.
Fiction: A Dark New Satire Asks, How Far Would You Go to Become Famous?
A grasping, conniving young writer schemes his way to the top in “A Ladder to the Sky,” John Boyne’s dark satire of literary ambition.
New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection
In “The Lonesome Bodybuilder,” the author and playwright Yukiko Motoya spins imaginative analogies of marital dysfunction.
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