Nonfiction: A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’
Mark Lamster’s book recounts the long and productive life of an architect who had an outsize influence on the art form throughout the 20th century.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Ian Rankin: By the Book
The crime writer, whose new Rebus novel is “In a House of Lies,” is giving his archives to the National Library of Scotland: “There might be material there for some future Ph.D. researcher … long after I’m dead.”
Nonfiction: Julián Castro’s American Story
In a new memoir, “An Unlikely Journey,” the potential presidential candidate traces his family’s history, from his grandmother’s emigration to the United States to his rise in politics.
Nonfiction: A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo
“Bringing Down the Colonel,” by Patricia Miller, casts timely light on a forgotten 19th-century saga in which a powerful man was held accountable for his exploitative treatment of a young woman.
Fiction: A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives
In Helen Schulman’s latest novel, “Come With Me,” a California family’s bonds are frayed by infidelities both virtual and actual.
Nonfiction: Chasing Down a Decades-Old Family Tragedy
In “The Day That Went Missing,” Richard Beard, gutted by memories and grief, investigates his brother’s death on a Cornwall beach in 1978.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism
John B. Judis’s “The Nationalist Revival” explores the worries and resentments of those who feel left behind.
Poetry: In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand
“The Patch,” his seventh collection, probes landscapes from New Jersey to Alaska and profiles a vast cast of characters, from Joan Baez to Thomas Wolfe.
Tracking the Opioid Epidemic Through the Books That Warned Us
In a new column, Prescribed Reading, Abigail Zuger looks at past books that dealt with opioid abuse in order to understand better how we got here.
The Book Review Podcast: Poetry Meets the Moment(s)
The Book Review’s poetry editor, Gregory Cowles, discusses Tracy K. Smith’s essay about political poetry and more from this week’s special issue.
Inside the List: Seeing Double on the Shelves
Book titles can’t be copyrighted, and that led to a recent dust-up on social media.
Notebook : Kurt Vonnegut’s World War II Scrapbook
An unpublished trove of photographs and letters the author kept while serving in the U.S. Army in Dresden provides the biographical context for his most influential novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
Children’s Books: Winter Holiday Treats For Picture Book Readers
A snowplow who works all night long, a naughty kid who breaks his mom’s favorite ornament, a fox hunting for a winter meal, and more in the season’s standout picture books.
New in Paperback: ‘A Kind of Freedom,’ ‘Secrecy World’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Poetry: He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work.
In poems that cajole, beguile, praise and evoke, Robert Bly makes the case that poetry should be near the center of life.
The Saturday Profile: A Dissident Chinese Novelist Finds Echoes of Mao, and Orwell
Ma Jian, one of the sharper observers of contemporary China, though living in exile for 30 years, says this era resembles that of the Cultural Revolution.
POETRY: Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist
“The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht,” translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine, brings together more than 1,000 poems.
The Shortlist: In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words
In these four deeply political, deeply personal books, poets grapple with some hot-button issues of the day.
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