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The Book Review’s Help Desk columnist gives her choices of the best in self-help and how-to of 2017.
Nicholas Blincoe’s biography of the West Bank city begins with its roots as a trading post in the eighth century B.C. and follows it to the present.
The filmmaker shares the novels that most influenced his movie career and why he no longer looks to books for material for his films.
Moving from English to German, thanks to Yiddish, has helped Deborah Feldman find her voice and her purpose.
Marilyn Stasio’s column features tales of murder and mayhem, from cozy to grisly, all decked out in the finery of the season.
Lesley Hazleton reviews Wills’s new book, “What the Qur’an Meant.”
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “God: A Human History,” the author of “Zealot” follows up his book about Jesus with one about God.
Christopher de Hamel’s “Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts” uses a dozen rare illustrated volumes to transport readers back to the medieval world.
Brad Thomas Parsons’s “Distillery Cats” profiles the felines who patrol the world’s great distilleries.
Books of fiction and nonfiction that mine the experience of men and women both powerful and ordinary who discover new truths in uncertain country.
Simon Schama’s “Belonging: 1492-1900” recounts the history of a people who never seemed to belong anywhere.
Eric Metaxas’ “Martin Luther” seeks to make its subject attractive to a wide reading audience.
These books explore historical fires and the lives they have touched.
Beard discusses her new manifesto, and Hillary Chute talks about “Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere.”
Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage and discuss books with The Times’s children’s books editor, Maria Russo.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The first of a projected trilogy, S. A. Chakraborty’s fantastical adventure novel, “The City of Brass,” riffs on the imagery of Islamic folklore.
In “The Trade,” the American journalist Jere Van Dyk relives the injustices he suffered both during and following his captivity at the hands of the Taliban.
It’s less the content than the plain conversational style that gets Instapoets’ work dismissed as “not real poetry.”
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