Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sketchbook: Back-to-School Blues
Just in time for the new semester, the graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson draws a reflection on the trials of junior high.
By the Book: By the Book: George Pelecanos
The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.”
Nonfiction: The Criminalization of Parenthood
In “Small Animals,” Kim Brooks examines why letting your kids walk alone to school or play in the park unsupervised means risking arrest — especially if you’re a mother.
Nonfiction: Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal
In Sam Anderson’s new history of “the great minor city of America,” he tells a story that extends from the famous 1889 land rush to the saga of the Thunder.
What I Love: Gary Shteyngart’s Year-Round Dacha
The upstate house offers an escape from a New York City that no longer exists — and a place where he can write three times as fast.
Nonfiction: Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat
In “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” Craig Brown dishes out gossipy tales of Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad
“The Husband Hunters” is Anne de Courcy’s glittering account of the Gilded Age wave of young women whose fortunes saved the British aristocracy.
Books News: A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life
The novelist’s only children’s book is coming back into print, and it couldn’t be more timely.
Nonfiction: Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
In “Winners Take All,” Anand Giridharadas explores a global elite that bemoans the state of the world while refusing to seek real, structural change.
Books News: A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La
The Kingdom of Bhutan, tucked away in the Himalayas, just got TV. Now it’s home to ambitious young authors who are telling their country’s stories for the first time, usually in English.
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Graphic Tribute to a Classic Work of Paleontological Literature
The children’s book author and illustrator David Nytra draws a review of William E. Scheele’s “Prehistoric Animals.”
The Book Review: Rethinking the ‘Tangled Tree’ of Life
“We are composites of various creatures,” David Quammen says. “We are mosaics.”
Children’s Books: Charming, Plucky Picture Books That Ease Back-to-Class Jitters
The very best kids’ books — like these — help the under-10 set work through their fears.
Our Back Pages: 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: Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.”
Inside the List: ‘It’s So Hard for Parents to Imagine Their Children Shooting Up Heroin’: Beth Macy on ‘Dopesick’
Back in 2012, Macy, a journalist, wrote articles about suburban heroin addiction. In a new book she’s widened her lens, exploring the roots of the national opioid crisis.
New in Paperback: ‘Democracy in Chains,’ ‘Black Mad Wheel’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself
Chris Feliciano Arnold’s “The Third Bank of the River” is a reported and personal look at the problems plaguing the Amazon and its people.
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