My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film
Andrew Solomon writes about the process of converting his book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” into a documentary.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Books News: The Obama-Biden Bromance Continues. This Time in a Mystery Novel.
In a new crime novel, the 44th president and his vice president team up to solve a suspicious death, and patch up their frayed friendship in the process.
A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.
Michel Houellebecq has eerily foreseen some of the worst social developments of our time.
Fiction: In a Novel, Nine Voices in the South Anticipate an Execution
In “The Mercy Seat,” by Elizabeth H. Winthrop, locals in a small Louisiana town consider justice and law before a black man is to be put to death.
By the Book: Michiko Kakutani: By the Book
The Times’s former chief book critic Michiko Kakutani, author of “The Death of Truth,” doesn’t think in terms of genre: “J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carré’s Smiley novels are spy stories.”
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Life: The Romance and the Reality
In “The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography,” the prolific British author Deborah Levy reflects on the sacrifices and satisfactions of her career.
Nonfiction: The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance
In “Near-Death Experiences … and Others,” his new collection, the esteemed editor weighs in on romance novels, Hollywood movies and — a longstanding love — ballet.
The Shortlist: Three Recent Novels Show Off Latin America’s Varied History — and Literary Style
“The Farm,” by Héctor Abad, “In the Distance With You,” by Carla Guelfenbein, and “The Linden Tree,” by César Aira, range from rural Colombia to cosmopolitan Santiago and Peronist Argentina.
Nonfiction: A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’
“The Corner of the Oval” is Beck Dorey-Stein’s fresh, funny, utterly unconventional account of working for President Obama.
Nonfiction: The Making of a Moral Hero: ‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’
A new book assembles 255 letters, both heartbreaking and inspiring, by the former South African president and civil rights activist, who spent more than 27 years in jail.
Fiction: A Novel That Reads Like Martin Amis on Mescaline
A psychopathic but oddly charming coke dealer shoots and blusters his way through “The Price You Pay,” Aidan Truhen’s brilliant, blood-soaked thriller.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: An Instagram-Obsessed Anthropologist Riffs on the Meaning of ‘Maleness’
In Lynne Tillman’s novel “Men and Apparitions,” Zeke Stark explores how the feminist movement has affected men.
The Shortlist: Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over
How far along is artificial intelligence and what will it do to human society? Three books ponder this question, and wonder if we and the robots can work together.
Nonfiction: In the Middle Class, and Barely Getting By
Alissa Quart’s “Squeezed” examines the problem of families at the upper edge of the middle class, struggling to survive financially in America.
Nonfiction: What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck?
The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich reviews two new books arguing for a universal basic income: “Give People Money,” by Annie Lowrey, and “The War on Normal People,” by Andrew Yang.
Book News: Yet Another Book Takes on Impeachment: This Time, the Case Against
Alan Dershowitz‘s latest book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump,” was written with a sense of urgency. It took two months.
Books News: The Changing Face of Romance Novels
Some publishers are starting to acquire books written by black, Asian and other minority writers that feature more character diversity, but barriers remain.
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