Fiction: Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
Children’s Books: Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People
Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander, Juan Felipe Herrera and Naomi Shihab Nye write unforgettable verse about love, loss and the pain and joy of growing up.
The Book Review Podcast: Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens
Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”
An Illustrated Tribute to ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’
Sergio García Sánchez reimagines the 19th-century tale of a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.
Nonfiction: The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats
Susan Ronald’s “A Dangerous Woman” is an energetic biography of Florence Gould and a terrific window into the life of the superaffluent.
Nonfiction: Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan” depicts the complicated politics and colorful cast of statesmen, spies and economists behind America’s intervention in midcentury Europe.
Nonfiction: A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
Ben Austen’s “High-Risers” assesses the dire consequences of segregated low-income residential developments across the nation.
The Shortlist: How Endangered Is American Democracy?
Four new books discuss current threats to our political system.
Fiction: In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life
John Edgar Wideman brings a potent mix of the personal, political and historical to his new collection, “American Histories.”
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Turning Basketball Lovers Into Book Lovers, a Stanza at a Time
Kwame Alexander’s last novel — “The Crossover,” a Newbery-winning, hip-hop- inflected tale of sports-loving twin boys — was written in verse. So is his new one, a prequel called “Rebound.”
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: corporate tyranny in Richard Powers’s “Gain.”
Fiction: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Goes Nordic Noir
In Lars Kepler’s latest thriller, “The Sandman,” two Swedish cops can only crack their case by befriending an imprisoned serial killer.
Ivory Tower: Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study?
Three new books tackle the ethical dilemmas of ethnographers who immerse themselves in other cultures.
Fiction: The House May Be Haunted. But in This Novel, Commitment Is Scarier.
In Ben Dolnick’s “The Ghost Notebooks,” a young husband and wife find secrets lurking beneath the cozy charm of their new country home.
Children’s Books: When the Going Gets Tough, These Kids Find Their Way
In books by Varian Johnson, Vera Brosgol and others, kids aren’t spared life’s hardships. But they solve mysteries, handle smelly camp latrines and more.
Fiction: The Turbulent Life of the Small-Town Librarian
In Sue Halpern’s novel “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library,” a woman with a past takes a quiet job in a quiet town.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Crime: Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way
Three brainy investigators (Lincoln Rhyme, Amos Walker and Bernie Gunther) and an apprentice sleuth (Daniel Pitt) track down some canny killers.
By the Book: James B. Comey: By the Book
When James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and author of “A Higher Loyalty,” reads fiction, it’s “almost always something my kids are reading, so I can … pretend to be cool.”
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