Nonfiction: What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America
“The Sky Is Falling,” by the pop culture historian Peter Biskind, traces the roots of our polarized political climates to Hollywood, television and Marvel Comics.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: A Dark, Dark Take on Our Most Precious Fairy Tales
Laird Hunt’s “In the House in the Dark of the Woods” brings horror and fantasy to the stories most deeply embedded in the American consciousness.
Editors’ Choice: 6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “Unsheltered” loves “fiction that educates me on the sly, especially about something I didn’t realize I wanted to know. I’m open to any kind of arcana.”
Nonfiction: The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop
Casey Gerald’s memoir, “There Will Be No Miracles Here,” recounts a life breaking through enormous barriers while never forgetting his roots.
Profiles: The Coming of Age of Trans-Lit
Transgender writers are embracing a more elastic literary form — the novel — and a number of recent works, often genre-bending as well as gender-bending, have won critical acclaim.
Paper Chase: The ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Nobel Dust-up
Sixty years ago today, the Swedish Academy awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, but less than a week later, under pressure from the Soviet government, Pasternak rejected the award. The story, which had more twists and turns than a Cold War-era spy novel, played out in The New York Times with one front-page story after another.
Nonfiction: A (Kafkaesque) Legal Battle Over the Author’s Papers Is at the Heart of ‘Kafka’s Last Trial’
A new book by Benjamin Balint considers what a lengthy courtroom fight over the rights to Franz Kafka’s literary archive reveals about him — and us.
Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity
In “The Big Fella,” Jane Leavy demonstrates how the Bambino paved the way for every superstar to come.
Five Novelists Imagine Trump’s Next Chapter
How does the story of the American president, the Russian president, a retired British spy, a contested election and a rumored videotape end?
Fiction: ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut stories are violent for a reason.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell
A new collection of essays by the British author best known for the children’s trilogy “His Dark Materials” showcases his boundless curiosity and fascination with storytelling.
Essay: The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why?
A slew of ghosts in recent books are a vessel for the country’s collective terror and guilt.
The Book Review: Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire
Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” about a 1986 blaze in Los Angeles that damaged or destroyed more than a million books.
Fiction: In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink
“Unsheltered,” a big, gripping, emotionally complex novel on the same scale as “The Poisonwood Bible,” explores what it means to have a safe place in the world.
Sketchbook | Graphic review: An Illustrated Homage to the Oceans Atlas
The graphic artist Kristen Radtke recalls the influence that a book about the seas had on her young imagination.
The Shortlist: The Latest in Jazz, the Genius of Jerome Robbins, and Bernhardt vs. Duse
Nate Chinen on “jazz for the new century”; Wendy Lesser’s biography of a great choreographer; and the most entertaining theatrical rivalry ever.
Children’s Books: Standout New Picture Books
Sibling truces, outrageous wordplay, being a kid in Beijing and more in the latest delights for the smallest readers and listeners.
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