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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
A writing workshop in Brooklyn helps caregivers explore their role in children’s lives by writing fables.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Jean Strouse and Eudora Welty on the “great books” they never finished.
Ms. Woodson, a best-selling children’s book author, will travel the country, speaking to kids in schools, libraries, juvenile detention centers and other underserved areas.
Richard Fidler’s “Ghost Empire” and Bettany Hughes’s “Istanbul” explore the intricate, improbable history of one of the world’s great urban centers.
Daniel Mendelsohn on his fondness of literary criticism, the classics and books about home decor and haute couture.
James Lee Burke and Peter Lovesey dig up murderers while Katherine Hall Page caters a possibly fatal party and Ray Celestin channels Al Capone.
Three books delve into mass transit and the creation of the subway.
Ian Black’s “Enemies and Neighbors” sees no clear solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Two new books by Kate Cole-Adams and Henry Jay Przybylo look at the mysteries of anesthesia.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Poor black lives weren’t depicted in the serious fiction of Hughes’s day. As Angela Flournoy notes, his debut novel, “Not Without Laughter,” changed that.
Two new books, by Martin Puchner and Abigail Williams, explore how literature has shaped human society.
Nicholas Kristof recommends books about one of the most closed countries on Earth.
In Daniel Alarcón’s “The King Is Always Above the People,” young men in new situations find out who they really are.
Brendan I. Koerner talks about “Megafire” and “Firestorm,” and Henry Fountain discusses “The Great Quake.”
Five books on oceans, hurricanes and the perfect wave.
Histories of modern medicine through the 20th-century proliferations of Spanish flu, tuberculosis and penicillin.
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