Books of The Times: ‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides
This collection brings together a sampling of the poet’s influential criticism, personal accounts and public statements.
Nonfiction: She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why.
In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations.
Front Burner: Recipes From Black America
The ‘Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook,’ from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, has old favorites and modern fare.
Essay: Renouncing Hate: What Happens When a White Nationalist Repents
Wes Enzinna considers “Rising Out of Hatred,” by Eli Saslow, in the context of other recent narratives about extremists who changed their minds.
The Book Review: ‘The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America’
“I’ve been waiting my whole writing career for a subject to grab me and insist that I make it into my first book,” Sam Anderson says, “and this was the one.”
Inside the List: ‘I Grew Up in a Southern Family — There Was a Lot of Talking’: Jacqueline Woodson on Her Two New Best Sellers
In “The Day You Begin,” a picture book inspired by her great-grandfather, and “Harbor Me,” a middle-grade novel, Woodson explores the transformative power of storytelling.
New in Paperback: ‘Notes on a Foreign Country,’ ‘The Seventh Function of Language’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: Plucky, Charming New Books for Toddlers
These books for the under-4 set brim with humor, great illustrations, lively storytelling and cheerful surprises.
The Shortlist: Words of Wisdom (and Wildness): Distinctive Story Collections
Valerie Trueblood, Mark Slouka, S. Wystan Owen and Amy Bonnafoons offer glimpses into lives buffeted by violence, bad luck and sometimes just boredom.
Fiction: Sex, Love and Religious Fervor Abound in Two New Novels
Blair Hurley’s “The Devoted” and Aaron Thier’s “The World Is a Narrow Bridge” trace the complexities and consequences of contemporary faith.
Fiction: James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade
“Katerina” oscillates between ’90s Paris and present-day L.A. to trace a washed-up writer’s midlife malaise.
Fiction: In Yasmina Reza’s Novel, a Dinner Party Descends Into Chaos — and Then Tragedy
In “Babylon,” the prizewinning French playwright and author explores the dark undercurrents of domesticity and marriage.
Fiction: A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India
Power struggles roil a wealthy Indian family in Preti Taneja’s debut novel, “We That Are Young,” a vivid reimagining of Shakespeare.
Fiction: He Wrote a Novel From Jail. She Wrote One About a Different Kind of Imprisonment.
Two debut novels, “Cherry,” by Nico Walker, and “Open Me,” by Lisa Locascio, explore the dangers of young, ill-fated love.
Nonfiction: Mount Everest Defeated Them — And so, in the End, Did India
Deborah Baker’s “The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire” charts the adventures of some courageous and complicated British climbers.
Sketchbook | The Literati: The Literati: Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy Parker’s Arrival in Hollywood
An illustrated reminiscence of the variable fortunes, and complicated postwar politics, of a famed screenwriting duo.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: Is America’s Most Popular Sport Under Siege?
As Mark Leibovich demonstrates in “Big Game,” his book about the N.F.L., the Lords of the League can’t cope with minor embarrassments, much less serious scandals.
Nonfiction: Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket
Simon Doonan celebrates the beloved New York Times photographer in this review of “Fashion Climbing,” a posthumous memoir of his early career.
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