Nonfiction: Antonia Fraser Revisits a Volatile Era in British Catholicism
The noted historian’s latest book, “The King and the Catholics,” documents the sometimes violent struggle for religious equality in Georgian England.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him?
In “The Corrosion of Conservatism,” Max Boot explains why, after many years, he changed his politics.
By the Book: Elaine Pagels: By the Book
The scholar and author, most recently, of “Why Religion?” tends to avoid reading science fiction: “Religious traditions already are packed with fantasy stories.”
Nonfiction: Thinking Clearly About Immigration
Reihan Salam’s “Melting Pot or Civil War?” tries to lower the temperature of our heated immigration debate.
Essay: What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.
Nonfiction: Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.
Nonfiction: The Founders Look at Modern America
Joseph J. Ellis’s “American Dialogue” views the present through the past.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Works of Fiction that are Best Read Together
Two books are better than one in these perfect pairings of stories across genres and generations.
Front Burner: The Dish on Fishs Eddy
A new graphic novel tells the story of the dishware store.
Nonfiction: From Top Law School Grad to Notorious R.B.G.: The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Jane Sherron De Hart, is the first full-length biography of the court’s second woman justice.
Nonfiction: Jill Soloway Goes Completely Transparent in a New Memoir
“She Wants It” details the creation of an award-winning television show amid the writer’s own process of self-discovery.
The Book Review Podcast: Lisa Brennan-Jobs on ‘Small Fry’
“I was desperately, desperately trying not to write a memoir,” Brennan-Jobs says. “But these stories kept on coming up for me, and they were more vivid and they were more pressing than other stories.”
Sketchbook: Just in Time for Halloween, a Graphic Homage to a Classic Work of Gothic Horror Literature
Sergio García Sánchez illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Inside the List: Susan Orlean Burned a Book. It Was ‘Excruciating.’
While researching “The Library Book,” about the 1986 fire that decimated the Los Angeles Central Library, the author took a paperback and some matches into the yard.
New in Paperback: ‘To Siri With Love,’ ‘The Relive Box’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
ROUNDUP: Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales
Marilyn Stasio discovers books that document the history of serial killing and the poisons of past and present, as well as some scandalous murder cases.
Fiction: From Stephen King, Master of Darkness, a Light New Tale
King’s slim new novel, “Elevation,” returns us to Castle Rock, where prejudice drives a plot that blends the fantastical with the mundane.
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