Fiction: A First Novel Exposes the Hollow Core of the Global Big Ideas Industry
In “Same Same,” the renowned graphic designer Peter Mendelsund presents a metafictional sendup of artists’ retreats and tech-industry think tanks.
Children’s Books: In Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up,’ a Young Rapper Finds Her Way
The follow-up to “The Hate U Give” introduces a heroine whose late father was a local hip-hop legend. She has a struggling mom, a venal manager and a ton of talent.
The Shortlist: From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On
The revolutionary advances in physics pioneered by Einstein are at the heart of new books that cover phenomena both celestial and mundane.
Nonfiction: A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden
In “A Bright Future,” Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist look to Europe for examples of how nuclear energy can help solve the global warming crisis.
Essay: What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device?
The disorder is poorly understood. Should novelists be able to make it mean whatever they want?
Nonfiction: A Personal Fight for the Dignity of L.G.B.T. People in India
In “An Indefinite Sentence,” Siddharth Dube recounts his personal struggle to destigmatize homosexuality and AIDS in his home country.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Book Review Podcast: Assessing the Facebook Problem
Roger McNamee talks about “Zucked,” and Charles Finch discusses the season’s best thrillers.
Inside the List: 70 and Female Is the New Cool
Mary Pipher’s “Women Rowing North” celebrates the unacknowledged talents and wisdom of older women — a demographic increasingly in the limelight.
New in Paperback: ‘An American Marriage,’ ‘How Democracies Die’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel
In “Where Reasons End,” an unnamed narrator plumbs the nature of suffering — and the limits of language — in a dialogue with the child she mourns.
Children’s Books: Picture Books That Let Imaginations Soar
In the latest from Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, Shaun Tan and others, a boy and his dog head to the moon, a crab bakes cakes and a cat foils a bakery break-in.
Profile: Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer
Benjamin Dreyer sees language the way an epicure sees food. And there are cretins everywhere he looks.
Sketchbook: The Urban Grid of Writerdom
An illustrated map of the authorial life.
12 New Books to Look for in February
A follow-up to “The Hate U Give.” An investigation into the Chernobyl disaster. True crime in Northern Ireland. And more.
The Shortlist: A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas
Disappearances link the works of Claire Adam, Madhuri Vijay, Juliet Lapidos and James Charlesworth: missing persons, missing manuscripts and missed connections.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past
New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).
Nonfiction: The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter.
Reema Zaman, Sophia Shalmiyev and Pam Houston all seek solace in memoir for their pain.
Nonfiction: A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels
Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.
Fiction: A Novel Set at the Dakota Imagines John Lennon as a Neighbor
In Tom Barbash’s “The Dakota Winters,” a searching young man finds an unlikely companion in the former Beatle’s last year of life.
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