Nonfiction: Science’s Invisible Women
Two new books, Patricia Fara’s “A Lab of One’s Own” and Claire L. Evans’s “Broad Band,” put women back into the history of science.
Nonfiction: Come-Ons, Takedowns and Insults: What It’s Like to Write Comedy as a Woman
In “Just the Funny Parts,” Nell Scovell — who’s crafted jokes for everyone from David Letterman to President Obama — describes the toxic misogyny she’s endured.
Essay: Before #MeToo, There Was Catharine A. MacKinnon and Her Book ‘Sexual Harassment of Working Women’
Why did it take nearly four decades for the world to realize that she was right?
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Book Review Podcast: Impeachment, Then and Now
Cass R. Sunstein talks about “Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide” and “Can It Happen Here?”; and Kathryn Hughes discusses “Victorians Undone.”
Inside the List: Is Your Plane About to Crash? Write a Farewell Note and Eat It
The liquids in your stomach may help the note survive the crash, novelist Brad Meltzer says. That’s just one thing he learned while researching his new novel, “The Escape Artist.”
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: impeachment.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: A Brutal Heritage Finally Revealed
Krystal Sital’s memoir, “Secrets We Kept,” recounts the violence and poverty endured by her mother and grandmother in rural Trinidad.
Sketchbook: The Literati: Going Wilde in America
A graphic retelling of the Irish fin-de-siècle aesthete’s whirlwind 1881 overseas tour.
Nonfiction: A Corporeal History of the 19th Century
From baby bumps to facial hair, Kathryn Hughes’s “Victorians Undone” asks what we can learn about a culture by studying the human bodies it produces.
Children’s Books: Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety
Bullying, scary news and the need for kindness are at the center of new books by Kerascoët, Jessica Love and others.
The Shortlist: How Language Came to Be — and How We Use It Today
Three new books tackle various mysteries from the world of linguistics: why we swear, why we say “mm-hmm” all the time and how conversation arose.
Nonfiction: A Matter of Life and Death
A boisterous, loving Irish wake is “the best guide to life you could ever have,” Kevin Toolis writes in his new memoir, “My Father’s Wake.”
Nonfiction: ‘The Stowaway’ Appeals to the Thrillseeker in All of Us
Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s tale of a young man’s journey to Antarctica symbolizes our wanderlust and the power of imagination over expectation.
Nonfiction: The Beauty and Mystery of How a Building Is ‘Built’
Roma Agrawal, a pioneering structural engineer for some of the world’s tallest towers, explains the history and beauty of her craft.
Crime: Hustles, Hoaxes and Heinous Crimes
Marilyn Stasio’s mystery column visits the canals of Venice and the cliffs of southern Britain, with American pit stops at a mortuary and a motel.
Fiction: The Good, the Bad and the Panther
In Elizabeth Crook’s western-inflected novel, “The Which Way Tree,” teenage siblings go on a quest for vengeance.
Fiction: Black, Gay and Losing Faith
In Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel, “Speak No Evil,” a young man’s journey of self-discovery runs into opposition from his parents and their church.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Ruth McKenney
I wish McKenney’s life had been as joyous and carefree as her effervescent memoirs. But I rejoice that her books are still available at my hometown library.
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