Nonfiction: What It Means to Be ‘Latinx,’ and What That Means for America
Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama cabinet member, reviews Ed Morales’s new book on the diversity and hybridity of Latino identity.
Books News: Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Finally Hits Shelves
The first lady’s memoir arrives just ahead of her multicity arena tour.
Nonfiction: Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written?
Andrew Roberts’s “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” tells the full story of an extraordinary life.
Books of The Times: Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details
Filled with food, music and hard toil, selections of the two-time poet laureate’s work are brought together in “Monument.”
Nonfiction: When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy
Kiese Laymon’s memoir, “Heavy,” is a son’s unflinching portrait of a mother whose violent love and exacting expectations were meant to protect him from harm.
Audiobooks: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics
In “Accessory to War,” the astrophysicist offers a history of space exploration and the ways it has been aided and abetted by warfare and its needs.
Nonfiction: American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away
Five new books touch on American Jewish identity and what will sustain it into the future.
Further Reading: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s Most Memorable Book Reviews
From 1969 to 1995, he tackled two or three books a week, making and breaking literary careers.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Ann Petry
“ ‘The Street’ is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot.”
New in Paperback: ‘Winter,’ ‘Ten Restaurants That Changed America’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert Scholes’s on Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
Children’s Books: Y.A. Novels That Explore Love in Many Forms
A cross-cultural romance, a love triangle, a fake relationship and a girl in search of her birth mom in the latest realistic Y.A. fiction.
Children’s Books: Great New Children’s Books About Animals
Why do critters feature in so many memorable kids books? Novels by Sharon Creech, Carl Hiaasen and more show once again how animals help us understand the world.
Children’s Books: Picture Books to Make Your Kid — and You — Giggle and Guffaw
The latest from Jon Agee, Matthew Cordell and more present table-turning children, pants-wearing vegetables and even a touch of gastrointestinal humor.
The Book Review Podcast: Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives
David W. Blight talks about “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” and Bob Spitz talks about “Reagan: An American Journey.”
Children’s Books: Picks of the Litter: Dog Picture Books for Every Child — and Grown-Up
Finding and losing, playing and working, caring and staying true — dog books teach us about all those things while tugging at our heartstrings.
Books News: In Her New Book, Michelle Obama Denounces Trump’s Sexism and His Promotion of the ‘Birther’ Conspiracy
In “Becoming,” she talked about suffering a miscarriage, relying on IVF to conceive and the challenges of being the first African-American first lady.
Children’s Books: Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child
Beautifully illustrated and closely researched, these books tell fascinating stories about heroes, unsung and otherwise.
Children’s Books: Can a Simple, Classic European Fantasy Win Over Jaded American Kids? This One Just Might
“The Letter for the King,” by the Dutch author Tonke Dragt, gets a new English edition 56 years after it first appeared. It’s a straightforward story with buckets of charm on its side.
Children’s Books: Picture Books About Cars, Trucks and Other Things That Clank, Roar and Move Fast
These books for young vehicle lovers have it all: size, strength, speed — even kindness. And a dog.
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