Nonfiction: Paul Theroux’s New Book Ranges From Literature to Landscapes, With Surprising Cheer
“Figures in a Landscape” is the latest collection from the prolific travel writer.
Inside the List: Political Books Rule the List Now. What Was Selling 30, 40, 50 Years Ago?
As memoirs by John McCain and James Clapper hit the list, we dive into the Book Review’s archives to look at what people were reading in summers past.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets...
Ramie Targoff’s biography, “Renaissance Woman,” reveals a writer who moved between 16th-century courts and cloisters, whose sonnets still speak to us.
Nonfiction: In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean?
In “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh” Carl Zimmer explores inheritance in all its varied dimensions — from genetic ancestry to biological definitions of race.
Profile: With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic
Mr. Orange is part of a generation of young indigenous writers who are redefining the native canon.
Graphic Content: Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do
Nick Drnaso’s “Sabrina” and Michael Kupperman’s “All the Answers” both center on characters who set off a story by disappearing.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Bill Clinton: By the Book
The former president Bill Clinton, who collaborated with James Patterson on the new thriller “The President Is Missing,” reads everywhere: “At my work table, in my easy chair, in bed and on the plane. Even in the car when I’m not too tired.”
Bookshelf: Coming to America
“Journeys” is a collection of 72 personal essays about how families from other countries started over in the United States.
Nonfiction: Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages
Mark Forsyth’s “A Short History of Drunkenness” looks at history as a long succession of heavy drinking.
Nonfiction: Michael Chabon Tries Hard to Be a Good Dad
Judd Apatow reviews “Pops,” Chabon’s collection of essays about fatherhood and its discontents.
Nonfiction: How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution
Andrew Friedman’s “Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll” describes the changes in American culture brought about in restaurant kitchens.
Profile: A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi
Gaël Faye’s “Small Country,” a huge hit in France, lands in the United States next week.
Nonfiction: Don’t Try to Catch a Komodo Dragon — Unless You’re David Attenborough
In his new memoir, “Adventures of a Young Naturalist,” Attenborough tells stories from the nature show that first brought him to the animals.
Nonfiction: She Was a Model for Impressionist Masters. Then She Became One Herself.
Suzanne Valadon was too poor to study art, but as Catherine Hewitt makes clear in a new biography, “Renoir’s Dancer,” she learned a lot by posing for the great painters of her time.
Nonfiction: A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress
Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”
Nonfiction: When the Dinosaurs Reigned
The paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs” offers a narrative history of the ancient animals that used to rule the earth.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: Turning Circe Into a Good Witch
In Madeline Miller’s latest adaptation of Greek myth, “Circe,” we encounter a thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
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