Crime: The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales
Marilyn Stasio’s column takes readers to backwater towns in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the murky Victorian-era Thames. Also a not-very-sunny California.
Children’s Books: A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin
In “The Faithful Spy,” John Hendrix makes the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader of the Dutch resistance against the Nazis, into both a thriller and a tale of valiant faith.
Fiction: Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old
In “Boomer1,” the internet is the battleground for generational warfare.
New in Paperback: ‘Windfall,’ ‘The Ruined House’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Otherworldly: The Best New Fantasy Novels
Amal El-Mohtar looks at four books that immerse readers in richly imagined otherworlds.
The Shortlist: No Fins or Mask Needed: Four New Books Take Underwater Journeys
Whether you want to know more about orcas, the whale fossil record, the Maine lobstering industry or fish behavior, there’s a book for you.
Fiction: Novellas of Tokyo’s Lost Generation, Newly Translated
“The End of the Moment We Had” marks the first English appearance of prose by the playwright Toshiki Okada.
Inside the List: His Novel Describes the Dark Side of Internet Fame. Hank Green Knows Something About That.
In “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” which debuts on the list at No. 1, a YouTube video transforms its creator into an overnight media sensation.
Sketchbook | The Literati: The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter
An illustrated retelling of the Russian novelist’s troubled marriage, and final breaths.
Nonfiction: A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle
“Attention: Dispatches From a Land of Distraction,” a collection of essays by the novelist Joshua Cohen, is a testament of intellectual seriousness from one of America’s most interesting minds.
Fiction: A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style
Two marriages begin fraying at the seams in Diana Evans’s “Ordinary People.”
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.
Fiction: A Short Novel of Love, War and Comrades in Arms Contains the World in a Foxhole
Elliot Ackerman’s “Waiting for Eden” keeps an eye on a wounded veteran from the perspective of his dead best friend.
By the Book: Andre Dubus III: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “Gone So Long” is moved by compassion in literature: “The sense that the writer is not poking fun at his or her characters, but instead is genuinely curious about their lives.”
Ben Fountain Takes a Tour Through Our Current Existential Crisis
In his new book, “Beautiful Country Burn Again,” the author of “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” turns to the state of our politics in the age of Trump.
Fiction: A First Novel Pays Tribute to the Iconoclastic Kathy Acker
In “Crudo,” Olivia Laing creates a pastiche of voices and identities to explore the boundaries between who she is and who she might have become.
Nonfiction: Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis
The Spanish novelist Javier Cercas investigated the case of Enric Marco, the fabulist who claimed to have been in a concentration camp.
Children’s Books: A Brave Graphic Memoir of a Childhood Shadowed by a Parent’s Addiction
Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s “Hey, Kiddo” tells an unvarnished story of drug-fueled, hard-drinking family dysfunction — and the power of both art and stubborn love to save a kid.
Nonfiction: A Double Portrait of Two of the Cold War’s Most Successful Double Agents
Ben Macintyre’s new book, “The Spy and the Traitor,” recounts the extraordinary stories of the Soviet Oleg Gordievsky and the American Aldrich Ames, spies who betrayed their countries.
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