Nonfiction: A Mother’s Pain, a Daughter’s Addiction
In “If You Love Me,” Maureen Cavanagh chronicles her family’s journey through her daughter Katie’s heroin addiction.
Nonfiction: She Lost Her Father, Her Health and All She Held Dear. At Least She Found Perspective.
Alethea Black’s memoir, “You’ve Been So Lucky Already,” traces her journey from grief to religious faith.
The Shortlist: Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family
Fiction from and about our northern neighbors revealing parents and children in turmoil.
Fiction: The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis
Luce D’Eramo’s incredible tale of bravery or insanity, described in “Deviation,” has been translated into English for the first time.
New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Graphic Content: Comics of Violence and Nostalgia From War-Torn Syria
In her column, Hillary Chute explores work from Riad Sattouf, Don Brown, Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham.
Fiction: His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel.
In “Patient X,” David Peace explores the conflicted career of the great Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who committed suicide when only 35.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: Is All Art Sacred Art? In a Prose Meditation, One Poet Makes the Case
Christian Wiman’s strangely powerful new book, “He Held Radical Light,” argues for the inherent holiness of art.
By the Book: Susan Orlean: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Library Book” says visitors might be surprised to see a copy of “Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition” on her shelves: “I recommend it over the third edition.”
Nonfiction: Waging War From the Oval Office
Michael Beschloss’s “Presidents of War” looks at the pressures on chief executives when they make the ultimate decision to risk American lives.
Q. & A.: Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes.
The Japanese author’s intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, between regular life and irregular happenings.
Fiction: Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel
In “The Witch Elm,” squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.
Nonfiction: A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All
Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948” takes Gandhi on his own terms but does not gloss over the flaws.
Fiction: In a New Collection, Deborah Eisenberg Returns to Say the Unsaid
“Your Duck Is My Duck” offers six new stories filled with Eisenberg’s trademark style, blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That
Most of us own books we’ve read and books we haven’t. Kevin Mims considers the importance of owning books we’ll never get around to finishing.
Nonfiction: Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government
“The Fifth Risk” examines the crucial, often life-or-death, work done by officials in three government agencies.
Nonfiction: John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be
“Every Day Is Extra” is the memoir of an eyewitness to some of the most dramatic changes in American political history.
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