Crime: Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column
From Lee Child’s New Hampshire thriller, “Past Tense,” to Michael Connelly’s latest Los Angeles mystery, “Dark Sacred Night,” the sleuthing is in high gear.
The Shortlist: Family Sagas: Three Novels Probe Generations of Secrets
Whether it’s decades’ worth of Portuguese and French women or an Australian clan’s one long weekend, these fictional relatives tell revelatory tales.
Children’s Books: How Do You Talk to Children About Politics These Days? Try These Books.
A Trump biography for teenagers, a picture book biography of Elizabeth Warren, Justice Sotomayor’s life story for kids, and more of this fall’s books for future voters.
Reconsideration: How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem
A journal entry prompted Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim to seek out the novels of Irmgard Keun, once dubbed the “It Girl” of German literature.
Nonfiction: Race and Class and Youth Football in Brownsville, Brooklyn
Albert Samaha’s “Never Ran, Never Will” spends two seasons with the Mo Better Jaguars, tracking the lives of the team’s young, nonwhite, often at-risk players.
Nonfiction: Alan Greenspan’s Ode to Creative Destruction
In “Capitalism in America,” co-written with Adrian Wooldridge, Greenspan offers a history of the free market and its positive impact on the United States.
Nonfiction: Antonia Fraser Revisits a Volatile Era in British Catholicism
The noted historian’s latest book, “The King and the Catholics,” documents the sometimes violent struggle for religious equality in Georgian England.
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: Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him?
In “The Corrosion of Conservatism,” Max Boot explains why, after many years, he changed his politics.
By the Book: Elaine Pagels: By the Book
The scholar and author, most recently, of “Why Religion?” tends to avoid reading science fiction: “Religious traditions already are packed with fantasy stories.”
Nonfiction: Thinking Clearly About Immigration
Reihan Salam’s “Melting Pot or Civil War?” tries to lower the temperature of our heated immigration debate.
Essay: What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.
Nonfiction: Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.
Nonfiction: The Founders Look at Modern America
Joseph J. Ellis’s “American Dialogue” views the present through the past.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Works of Fiction that are Best Read Together
Two books are better than one in these perfect pairings of stories across genres and generations.
Front Burner: The Dish on Fishs Eddy
A new graphic novel tells the story of the dishware store.
Nonfiction: From Top Law School Grad to Notorious R.B.G.: The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Jane Sherron De Hart, is the first full-length biography of the court’s second woman justice.
Nonfiction: Jill Soloway Goes Completely Transparent in a New Memoir
“She Wants It” details the creation of an award-winning television show amid the writer’s own process of self-discovery.
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