New in Paperback: ‘Real American,’ ‘Touch’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: First a Decorated War Vet, Then a Bank Robber, Now a Best-Selling Novelist
Nico Walker’s “Cherry” is selling briskly. When the still-incarcerated author can use the phone again — he’s out of minutes — he may score a film deal, too.
Nonfiction: A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor
In “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” Yossi Klein Halevi looks to explain to a hypothetical Palestinian how his people see the conflict.
Nonfiction: How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O
In “Jell-O Girls,” Allie Rowbottom explores the history of her family, including a legacy of psychogenic illness, a result of repression and trauma.
Fiction: Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale
Kevin Powers’s second novel, “A Shout in the Ruins,” tells a story that spans over a hundred years and begins with a fire at a Virginia plantation.
The Shortlist: Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory
Prepare to be dazzled by these new works of fiction — two Norwegian, one Danish.
Children’s Books: Surviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It’s Possible
In their new books, Allison Varnes, Pablo Cartaya and Antony John create memorable characters who try to stand out but also, somehow, fit in.
Nonfiction: Five Women Who Made Aviation History
“Fly Girls,” by Keith O’Brien, points out that Amelia Earhart wasn’t the only female pilot who defied all odds to take to the skies in the 1920s.
Fiction: A Literary Three-Hankie Weeper
A cheap reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” binds “Tin Man,” Sarah Winman’s tale of love, loss and the power of art to inspire and sustain.
On Poetry: There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources
In “Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense,” Jenny Uglow suggests that her subject’s life was sadder than his paintings and limericks would imply.
Fiction: A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania
In Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Traitor’s Niche,” the quest for a rebel pasha’s head becomes a grimly comic comment on 20th-century authoritarianism.
Nonfction: A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood
In “I Will Be Complete,” Glen David Gold holds his troubled mother — and his emotions — at arm’s length through a wealth of minutiae.
Fiction: A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love
The Indian-Americans in Neel Patel’s “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi” are less troubled by cultural clashes than they are by the unraveling of emotions.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sketchbook: Back-to-School Blues
Just in time for the new semester, the graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson draws a reflection on the trials of junior high.
By the Book: By the Book: George Pelecanos
The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.”
Nonfiction: The Criminalization of Parenthood
In “Small Animals,” Kim Brooks examines why letting your kids walk alone to school or play in the park unsupervised means risking arrest — especially if you’re a mother.
Nonfiction: Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal
In Sam Anderson’s new history of “the great minor city of America,” he tells a story that extends from the famous 1889 land rush to the saga of the Thunder.
What I Love: Gary Shteyngart’s Year-Round Dacha
The upstate house offers an escape from a New York City that no longer exists — and a place where he can write three times as fast.
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