Crime: A Politician With Real Killer Instincts
A murderous senator is the prime villain in the Crime column, followed by a predatory teacher. Also on hand: a society murder and tasty French food.
The Shortlist: Three Sparkling Debuts, Joined by New York City
One novel follows a group of gay ballroom dancers, another traces the life of a wealthy single mother and a third tells the story of a Brooklyn artist.
Nonfiction: Aggro-Texting From the Syrian Jihad
Why would two Norwegian teenagers abandon life at home for ISIS? Asne Seierstad’s absorbing new book, “Two Sisters,” attempts to answer the question.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert Edmond Jones on “The Theatre of Tomorrow.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off
“Beneath a Ruthless Sun,” by the Pulitzer winner Gilbert King, is a searing true account of corrupt law enforcement, racial violence and heroism in Jim Crow Florida.
Editors’ Choice: 8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: What Happens When the President Ignores — and Even Belittles — His Own Intelligence Community?
The former C.I.A. head Michael Hayden lays out the dangers in his new book, “The Assault on Intelligence.”
By the Book: John McCain: By the Book
Senator John McCain, whose new book is “The Restless Wave,” thinks all children should read “Huckleberry Finn”: “It’s funny and it’s scary, and it teaches us to see past our differences.”
Nonfiction: What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries
In “Dancing Bears,” the Polish journalist Witold Szablowski uses the stories of liberated circus animals to illuminate various nations’ uncertain paths to democracy.
Bookshelf: Two New Works of Fiction About Mass Transit and a Daring Female Pilot
The actor David Duchovny’s third novel was inspired by a Yeats play, “The Only Jealousy of Elmer,” while Theasa Tuohy’s book was inspired by a 2010 Times obituary.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States
Elaine Castillo’s “America Is Not the Heart” exposes the social injustices of life as an immigrant in 1990s California.
Essay: The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times
Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” Julian Lucas explains.
Nonfiction: A Disaster at Sea, Animated by 26 Hours of Black-Box Recordings
The transcript from El Faro’s voyage data recorder is the most detailed record of a maritime disaster ever, and with “Into the Raging Sea” Rachel Slade makes excellent use of it.
Nonfiction: How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater
In “Something Wonderful,” Todd S. Purdum analyzes the extraordinary legacy of two brilliant songwriters.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: 11 Novels for the Would-Be Time Traveler
From the bones of 15th-century monarchs, to Neanderthals mingling with modern humans, to speculative tales of African elephants: stories to transport you back to the beginning.
Fiction: The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past
In Charles Frazier’s novel “Varina,” a late-life meeting with a former slave triggers painful memories for the much younger wife of Jefferson Davis.
Nonfiction: America’s Most Famous Street
Fran Leadon’s “Broadway” tells the story of New York City through one thoroughfare.
Graphic Content: Comics in Black and White That Are Anything but Simple
New works by Eleanor Davis and John Porcellino play with the theoretical and absurd.
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