Nonfictin: What Role Do Teachers Play in Education?
Andrea Gabor’s “After the Education Wars” looks at efforts to reform the classroom through technology and standardized testing.
Crime: From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors
Marilyn Stasio’s selections take readers to a North Carolina swamp, a peak in Minnesota and a jungle in Laos, with a pit stop at a California beach.
Fiction: Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel
In “Never Anyone but You,” Rupert Thomson reimagines the lives of the Surrealist icons Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Nonfiction: Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World
In “Rising,” Elizabeth Rush surveys the new contours of an America already changed by rising waters.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life
Tracy Franz’s “My Year of Dirt and Water” considers the paradoxical experience of being married to a Buddhist monk, cloistered in a Japanese temple.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Karel Capek
“This is the power of “War With the Newts”: It leaves us staring with bewilderment at the ways that we — with our tiny acts of greed and insensitivity and willful blindness — did all this.”
Light Reading: Using the Hashtag #ShareYourRejection, Writers Are Tweeting about Their Rocky Paths to Publication
It’s not all glamour and prizes.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Rebecca Solnit: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the essay collection “Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises” keeps an eye on the “daily eruptions of the internet”: “Like a lot of us, I’m hypervigilant about the crazy stuff going on.”
Nonfiction: A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly
In his passionate new essay collection, “American Audacity,” William Giraldi fiercely emphasizes the cultural importance of high literary standards.
Nonfiction: The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’
Alice Sparberg Alexiou’s history of the Bowery, “Devil’s Mile,” is a narrative not only of the famous street but of New York City as well.
Fiction: Two New Novels Expose the Fracturing of the American Nuclear Family, From Midcentury to Today
Cherise Wolas’s “The Family Tabor” and Rick Gekoski’s “A Long Island Story” both witness the unraveling of prominent Jewish families.
The Shortlist: Eats of Eden
Sink your teeth into three tasty new food memoirs — Rick Bragg’s “The Best Cook in the World,” Edward Lee’s “Buttermilk Graffiti” and Lidia Bastianich’s “My American Dream.”
Nonfiction: On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq
C.J. Chivers’s “The Fighters” provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: The Virtues of Shelf-lessness
Sloane Crosley makes the case for a nontraditional, at-home alternative to the Dewey Decimal System.
Match Book: Aspiring Memoirist Seeking Famous Writers’ Letters and Essays for Inspiration
From Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield to Yiyun Li and Heidi Julavits, Do Diarists Ever Truly Reveal Themselves?
Nonfiction: Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes
Charles S. Cockell’s “The Equations of Life” argues that physics constrains evolution so that life is not endlessly variable, but actually quite predictable.
Nonfiction: A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree
David Quammen has written a sprawling history of evolutionary genetics, “The Tangled Tree,” that complicates familiar notions of how species evolved.
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