Fiction: Lisa See Sets a Coming-of-Age Story in the Tumultuous Seas of Occupied Korea
In “The Island of Sea Women,” best friends who are professional divers confront grim fates in the years before the Korean War.
Fiction: ‘The Volunteer’ Braids the Lives of Fathers and Sons
Salvatore Scibona’s bold new novel spans generations, but at its heart is a young man who comes of age during the Vietnam War.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup
“Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox, is a remarkable testament of suffering and self-transformation by a man who survived more than 40 years in solitary confinement.
Fiction: Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting
The city becomes a fever dream in Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s “Bangkok Wakes to Rain” and Veeraporn Nitiprapha’s “The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth.”
Nonfiction: Healing the Divisions in Our Country
Arthur C. Brooks, in “Love Your Enemies,” offers advice on how to restore civility to American politics.
Nonfiction: His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them.
The essays in “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” recount Damon Young’s evolution from blogger to Established Magazine Writer even as he searches for his authentic self.
Nonfiction: Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster
Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl” explores the causes of the Chernobyl explosion, and Kate Brown’s “Manual for Survival” considers the consequences.
Nonfiction: The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case
In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
Nonfiction: Why Are We Feeling So Bad When Life Is So Good? Two Books Want Us to Accentuate the Positive
“The Right Side of History,” by Ben Shapiro, and “Clear and Present Safety,” by Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko, declare current pessimism is totally overblown.
Poetry: A Poetic Body of Work Grapples With the Physical Body at Risk
In “The Tradition,” Jericho Brown witnesses and celebrates vulnerability and resilience in a country that too often scorns or condemns them.
Fiction: A Peerless Chronicler of the 1970s and ’80s Turns Her Gaze on Generation Y
Ann Beattie’s new novel, “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” follows its protagonist from prep school in 2001 into his 30s today.
Nonfiction: Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding
Brian Switek’s “Skeleton Keys” takes a close look at our 206 bones and how they allow us to “stomp, fly, swim, slither, dig, run.”
The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth
From melting ice to diminishing populations, these books look at the effects of climate change and humans’ shifting relationship with our planet.
Nonfiction: Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope
In “Horizon,” the eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia.
Nonfiction: A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers
Clive Thompson’s “Coders” demystifies the work done to create the algorithms and programs that have come to dominate our world.
Fiction: The Mysteries of Friendship, Illuminated by Spooky Quantum Physics
Nell Freudenberger’s eloquent new novel, “Lost and Wanted,” invokes cutting-edge science and the supernatural to plumb the ineffable in human relationships.
The Week in Books
Salman Rushdie on a “dazzling” debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the birth of American Modernism and more.
The Book Review Podcast: Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law
Bharara discusses “Doing Justice,” and Senator Doug Jones talks about “Bending Toward Justice.”
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