Front Burner: Cooking, the Benjamin Franklin Way
A new book explores the food passions and larder of a founding father.
Fiction: Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship
In Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut novel, “Green,” the colors that really matter are black and white.
Profile: Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic
Robert Menasse writes a polyphonic novel of satire and sympathy about Brussels, Europe’s symbolic capital — its bureaucrats, nationalisms and police.
Newsbook: Haiti’s Resilience as Seen Through Literature
Three Haitian writers explore stories of politics, love and violence.
Books News: Stephen King to Receive PEN Literary Service Award
Previous recipients include Stephen Sondheim and J.K. Rowling.
Children’s Books: ‘The War I Finally Won’ Tells One English Girl’s Survival Story
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s follow-up to “The War That Saved My Life” follows its young heroine from life-changing surgery to, finally, a safe home.
The Book Review Podcast: Some Assembly Required
Alexander Langlands discusses “Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts,” and Max Boot talks about “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”
The Shortlist: The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists
Three new books on Vivian Maier, Renoir and Elaine de Kooning explore the personalities and experiences behind the work.
Essay: The Poet of Light
Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
Nonfiction: The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up
Edward L. Ayers’s “The Thin Light of Freedom” presents the War Between the States as experienced by ordinary people.
Nonfiction: What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity?
In “Supernormal,” the psychologist Meg Jay derives lessons from the lives of her troubled patients.
Egos: New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right
Taking on too much and too little are hazards of the form.
Fiction: ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences
In Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s new book, the Hungarian writer pursues the apocalyptic themes and sprawling syntax that have won him a cult following.
Inside the List: A Presidential Fury Propels Wolff Book to No. 1
Donald Trump’s lawyers threatened an injunction against Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” which makes its debut atop the hardcover nonfiction list.
Desolation on the Border
An illustrated response to an anthropologist's urgent, vividly drawn inquiry into the havoc wreaked on human life by America's immigration policy.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Children’s Books: Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World
Love shines out from gorgeous new books by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long, Oliver Jeffers, Nikki Giovanni and Ashley Bryan, and Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
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: Richard Le Gallienne on Ezra Pound.
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