Fiction: Allison Pearson ‘Does It’ Again
The working-mom heroine of “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” now middle-aged, is back for a sequel that wrestles with the question “How Hard Can It Be?”
Nonfiction: Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares
Gary Krist’s “The Mirage Factory” tells the story of early-20th-century Los Angeles through three of its most prominent residents.
Fiction: Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History
Christopher Buckley’s rollicking new comic novel, “The Judge Hunter,” follows the adventures of a bumbling young man sent to New England in 1664.
Fiction: Mining the Madness of Pure Logic in Stories That Dazzle and Discomfit
Helen DeWitt’s new collection, “Some Trick,” explores her interest in “fiction that shows the way mathematicians think.”
Fiction: A Novel Based on the True Story of a Con Man and His Ghostwriter
In “First Person,” Richard Flanagan explores the permeable boundary between fact and fiction.
Nonfiction: Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens
“Patriot Number One,” by Lauren Hilgers, is a deeply reported account of one family’s effort to remake their lives in the United States while keeping tabs on their hometown.
Nonfiction: Viv Albertine, Midlife Radical
In her new memoir, “To Throw Away Unopened,” the British punk icon offers a menopausal battle cry equal parts Nora Ephron and SCUM Manifesto.
Nonfiction: Who Were the Original Siamese Twins?
Yunte Huang’s “Inseparable” recounts a 19th-century story of celebrity and exploitation.
Nonfiction: Codices, Termites and Floral Notes: The Wondrous Life of ‘The Library’
This new survey, by Stuart Kells, a rare-books expert, is an absorbing account of the complicated role book collections have played in our public and private lives.
Nonfiction: Paul Theroux’s New Book Ranges From Literature to Landscapes, With Surprising Cheer
“Figures in a Landscape” is the latest collection from the prolific travel writer.
Inside the List: Political Books Rule the List Now. What Was Selling 30, 40, 50 Years Ago?
As memoirs by John McCain and James Clapper hit the list, we dive into the Book Review’s archives to look at what people were reading in summers past.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets...
Ramie Targoff’s biography, “Renaissance Woman,” reveals a writer who moved between 16th-century courts and cloisters, whose sonnets still speak to us.
Nonfiction: In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean?
In “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh” Carl Zimmer explores inheritance in all its varied dimensions — from genetic ancestry to biological definitions of race.
Profile: With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic
Mr. Orange is part of a generation of young indigenous writers who are redefining the native canon.
Graphic Content: Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do
Nick Drnaso’s “Sabrina” and Michael Kupperman’s “All the Answers” both center on characters who set off a story by disappearing.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Bill Clinton: By the Book
The former president Bill Clinton, who collaborated with James Patterson on the new thriller “The President Is Missing,” reads everywhere: “At my work table, in my easy chair, in bed and on the plane. Even in the car when I’m not too tired.”
Bookshelf: Coming to America
“Journeys” is a collection of 72 personal essays about how families from other countries started over in the United States.
Nonfiction: Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages
Mark Forsyth’s “A Short History of Drunkenness” looks at history as a long succession of heavy drinking.
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