Fiction: In Photos, His Face Is Not His Own. Blame 19th-Century Imperialism.
The teenage protagonist of Ariel Dorfman’s novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” is made to atone for his ancestors’ crimes.
Fiction: Bored in Brazil: Is She the 21st-Century Ugly American?
The narrator of Ian MacKenzie’s novel “Feast Days” has followed her banker husband to São Paulo. But the city and its people may be too much for her.
Fiction: The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up
“You Think It, I’ll Say It” revives the adolescent female archetypes of her novels, now grappling with adulthood.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Books Your Teenager Is Reading That You Should Too
Don’t worry if you failed to appreciate the classics in your high school classroom: These novels — like their readers — only get better with age.
Nonfiction: What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World?
Adam Becker’s “What Is Real?” explores the controversy around quantum physics and its ability to describe anything definite about the world of atoms.
Fiction: Paula McLain Returns to ‘The Paris Wife’ Territory
Fiery passion and fierce disagreements roil “Love and Ruin,” the story of Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, the journalist Martha Gellhorn.
Nonfiction: From the Rwandan Genocide to Chicago: A Young Author Survived to Tell Her Story
Clemantine Wamariya crisscrossed Africa with her teenage sister, enduring hunger, poverty, violence and trauma. Her memoir, “The Girl Who Smiled Beads,” recounts her journey.
Nonfiction: If You Want to Really Understand Bibi
Anshel Pfeffer’s new biography of the Israeli leader offers insights into how Benjamin Netanyahu sees the world.
Fiction: Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life
The author’s much-anticipated new novel, a page turner set in a women’s correctional facility, reveals an imagination Dickensian in its amplitude — and in its reformist zeal.
The Book Review Podcast: There Is Nothin’ Like a Tune
Todd S. Purdum talks about “Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution,” and Fran Leadon discusses “Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles.”
Inside the List: A Meditation on Biscuits, Tomatoes and Red-Eye Gravy
In his new memoir, “The Best Cook in the World,” Rick Bragg celebrates his mother and her down-home Southern cooking.
New in Paperback: ‘Priestdaddy,’ ‘The Golden Legend’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Sketchbook: The Nine Stages of Creativity
Cartoonist Grant Snider illustrates what to expect during the writing process.
Nonfiction: Eavesdropping on Beauvoir, Sartre and Their Circle of Friends
“Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50” is Agnès Poirier’s impressionistic history of the rebirth of postwar French culture.
Fiction: Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later?
Alan Hollinghurst’s novel “The Sparsholt Affair” traces a legacy of shame and the passage into a new openness.
Children’s Books: Turning Myths and Fairy Tales on Their Heads
A grumpy dwarf who rebels, a scared mini-dragon, and a green creature who’s not sure what he is in new books from Adam Gidwitz, Rebecca Stead and more.
Fiction: The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue
In Nafkote Tamirat’s incisive debut novel, a lonely young woman gets entangled in a man’s possibly sinister schemes.
Nonfiction: How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’
Virginia Eubanks examines the “digital poorhouse” — all the ways that technology is creating more obstacles for those needing help.
Fiction: He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted?
Zachary Lazar’s new novel, “Vengeance,” parses some hard truths about racial injustice and the country’s incarceration crisis.
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