Nonfiction: How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution
Andrew Friedman’s “Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll” describes the changes in American culture brought about in restaurant kitchens.
Profile: A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi
Gaël Faye’s “Small Country,” a huge hit in France, lands in the United States next week.
Nonfiction: Don’t Try to Catch a Komodo Dragon — Unless You’re David Attenborough
In his new memoir, “Adventures of a Young Naturalist,” Attenborough tells stories from the nature show that first brought him to the animals.
Nonfiction: She Was a Model for Impressionist Masters. Then She Became One Herself.
Suzanne Valadon was too poor to study art, but as Catherine Hewitt makes clear in a new biography, “Renoir’s Dancer,” she learned a lot by posing for the great painters of her time.
Nonfiction: A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress
Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”
Nonfiction: When the Dinosaurs Reigned
The paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs” offers a narrative history of the ancient animals that used to rule the earth.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: Turning Circe Into a Good Witch
In Madeline Miller’s latest adaptation of Greek myth, “Circe,” we encounter a thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids
From the sidesplitting to the heartbreaking, the mysterious to the political, this must-listen list has something for everyone in your car.
Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids
Essential, family-friendly narratives for even the longest of car rides.
Nonfiction: Seeing America as Our Ice Age Ancestors Did
Part travelogue, part archaeological study, Craig Childs’s “Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America” reads like a docudrama — and doesn’t reflect reality.
Fiction: A Cult Hit in Argentina, This Novel Evokes and Evades Malignant Machismo
In “The Desert and Its Seed,” Jorge Barón Biza asks: How can someone who knows pain be capable of violence?
Fiction: A Devastating Friendship Forged in India’s Underbelly
After being drawn into the world of human trafficking, two Indian girls encounter relentless cruelty at home and abroad in Shobha Rao’s novel, “Girls Burn Brighter.”
Fiction: A Novel of Sri Lanka’s Civil War, in Lush Tropical Detail
Roma Tearne’s “Brixton Beach,” a multigenerational family story, touches on sectarian strife in Sri Lanka and the nostalgia that comes after leaving home.
Nonfiction: What We Get Wrong About Animals
From the marvelous to the utterly bizarre, the astonishing diversity of life is on display in Lucy’s Cooke’s “The Truth About Animals.”
Nonfiction: Downloadable Neurons, Life on Mars: A Physicist’s View of Where We’re Headed
Michio Kaku goes long in his new book, “The Future of Humanity,” imagining the frontiers of possibility. Given enough time, he says, we might become as the gods.
The Book Review Podcast: David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’
Sedaris talks about his latest book, and Alisa Roth discusses “Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.”
Military History: Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future
Several new books examine methods of conducting war, from the days of George Washington to the latest developments in cyberwarfare.
Philip Roth’s Best Book
20 novelists, critics and historians make their case.
Crime: Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities
In Marilyn Stasio’s column, a pond in Maine and a British choir loft may be crime scenes. World War II Reykjavik and modern-day Glasgow surely are.
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