Nonfiction: Waging War From the Oval Office
Michael Beschloss’s “Presidents of War” looks at the pressures on chief executives when they make the ultimate decision to risk American lives.
Q. & A.: Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes.
The Japanese author’s intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, between regular life and irregular happenings.
Fiction: Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel
In “The Witch Elm,” squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.
Nonfiction: A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All
Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948” takes Gandhi on his own terms but does not gloss over the flaws.
Fiction: In a New Collection, Deborah Eisenberg Returns to Say the Unsaid
“Your Duck Is My Duck” offers six new stories filled with Eisenberg’s trademark style, blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That
Most of us own books we’ve read and books we haven’t. Kevin Mims considers the importance of owning books we’ll never get around to finishing.
Nonfiction: Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government
“The Fifth Risk” examines the crucial, often life-or-death, work done by officials in three government agencies.
Nonfiction: John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be
“Every Day Is Extra” is the memoir of an eyewitness to some of the most dramatic changes in American political history.
Books News: How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety
A growing canon of female-centered science fiction looks at questions of gender inequality, misogyny and institutionalized sexism.
The Book Review: Kate Atkinson on ‘Transcription’
Atkinson discusses her new novel about a young woman caught up in spy work during World War II.
Crime: The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales
Marilyn Stasio’s column takes readers to backwater towns in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the murky Victorian-era Thames. Also a not-very-sunny California.
Children’s Books: A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin
In “The Faithful Spy,” John Hendrix makes the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader of the Dutch resistance against the Nazis, into both a thriller and a tale of valiant faith.
Fiction: Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old
In “Boomer1,” the internet is the battleground for generational warfare.
New in Paperback: ‘Windfall,’ ‘The Ruined House’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Otherworldly: The Best New Fantasy Novels
Amal El-Mohtar looks at four books that immerse readers in richly imagined otherworlds.
The Shortlist: No Fins or Mask Needed: Four New Books Take Underwater Journeys
Whether you want to know more about orcas, the whale fossil record, the Maine lobstering industry or fish behavior, there’s a book for you.
Fiction: Novellas of Tokyo’s Lost Generation, Newly Translated
“The End of the Moment We Had” marks the first English appearance of prose by the playwright Toshiki Okada.
Inside the List: His Novel Describes the Dark Side of Internet Fame. Hank Green Knows Something About That.
In “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” which debuts on the list at No. 1, a YouTube video transforms its creator into an overnight media sensation.
Sketchbook | The Literati: The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter
An illustrated retelling of the Russian novelist’s troubled marriage, and final breaths.
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