Bookshelf: From F.D.R. to Serial Killers: New Books on New Yorkers
There is some cozy reading in store for those who like to stay steeped in the city’s sociopolitical history, including tales of war heroes and mob bosses.
Nonfiction: Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along?
Sean Wilentz’s “No Property in Man” argues that despite some expedient compromises, the Constitution’s writers were careful to plant the seeds of abolition.
By the Book: Tina Turner: By the Book
The singer, whose memoir “My Love Story” has just been published, wishes Mick Jagger would write an autobiography: “He can outtalk anyone on the planet. That’s the book I want to read, and so will everybody else. Mick?”
Self-Helped: How to Rewire Your Traumatized Brain
“Rationalization was much easier than recognizing the gravity of what was lost: an innocent, healthy childhood and an introduction to sexuality on my terms.”
Nonfiction: Vagabond Lives: Happier Memories From Kathryn Harrison’s Childhood
Her previous memoirs delved into her parents’ traumatic influence. Now, in “On Sunset,” she introduces the beloved Old World grandparents who raised her.
Match Book: Indigenous Stories for Young Readers
Young adult and middle grade fiction to educate children in the vast terrain of Native American history.
Help Desk: I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships
Judith Newman’s latest Help Desk column ventures into the minefield of marriage, dating, desire — and divorce.
Nonfiction: The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety
In “The Poison Squad,” Deborah Blum tells the story of the early-20th-century U.S.D.A. inspector who changed the way we think about food.
The Book Review: Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season’s Novels on Screen
Jenkins talks about his adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and Wolitzer discusses the adaptation of her novel “The Wife.”
Fiction: A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World
“CoDex 1962,” by the Icelandic cult writer Sjon, is a trippy, philosophical, shaggy-dog novel combining a love story, a crime mystery and a science-fiction thriller in one.
Fiction: In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural
The Japanese novelist’s latest book, “Killing Commendatore,” features a stymied artist, a haunted painting and a host of paranormal mysteries.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’
A journalist’s traumatic story of epilepsy and his struggle to have it treated seriously, and properly, in his college years.
Reading Room: 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love
The message here: A library is much more than its books.
Nonfiction: The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination
Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book” is an absorbing account of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Central Library and a homage to libraries everywhere.
Visuals: Mapping Out Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels
Los Angeles has long been the perfect backdrop from crime writers. This map of the city will help you find the setting for nine books, classic and new.
The Book Review: Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books
“It wouldn’t have been exciting before Trump,” Michael Lewis says of “The Fifth Risk.” “I think Trump’s electrified all the material.”
Inside the List: Neil deGrasse Tyson on How Space Scientists Have Long Been an ‘Accessory to War’
Tyson’s new book shows how the technologies that advanced our knowledge of the universe were designed with military advantage in mind.
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: Paula Giddings on Steven R. Carter’s “Hansberry’s Drama.
Children’s Books: Young Adult Books That Plunge Into the Ecstasies, and Agonies, of Teenage Life
New novels about road trips, summer jobs and first love as well as darker realities: mental illness, body issues, the threat of gun violence.
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