Fiction: A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans
“The Floating World,” by C. Morgan Babst, follows a survivor and her family through the ruined city.
Nonfiction: Throwing a Poolside Cocktail Party for ‘The Graduate’
Beverly Gray’s “Seduced by Mrs. Robinson” looks back at a classic American movie, half a century later.
Fiction: Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories
Eshkol Nevo has a new book, three linked novellas of pain and desire in one apartment building.
Sketchbook: Writer’s Retreat
A how-to guide for the hibernating author.
Fiction: A Stylistically Daring Novel Considers Fundamental Questions
In Mike McCormack’s “Solar Bones,” an engineer reflects on the fractured contemporary world and the life he left behind.
Children’s Books: For the Love of Malt Shop Novels
The plots were formulaic. The characters lacked psychological complexity. Even the titles were repetitive. But as a pre-teen I was transfixed — and with new editions out, I still am.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
The Real Nanny Diaries
A writing workshop in Brooklyn helps caregivers explore their role in children’s lives by writing fables.
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: Jean Strouse and Eudora Welty on the “great books” they never finished.
Books News: Jacqueline Woodson Is Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Ms. Woodson, a best-selling children’s book author, will travel the country, speaking to kids in schools, libraries, juvenile detention centers and other underserved areas.
Nonfiction: A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present
Richard Fidler’s “Ghost Empire” and Bettany Hughes’s “Istanbul” explore the intricate, improbable history of one of the world’s great urban centers.
By the Book: Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book
Daniel Mendelsohn on his fondness of literary criticism, the classics and books about home decor and haute couture.
Crime: A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain
James Lee Burke and Peter Lovesey dig up murderers while Katherine Hall Page caters a possibly fatal party and Ray Celestin channels Al Capone.
Newsbook: A Literary Journey Underground
Three books delve into mass transit and the creation of the subway.
Nonfiction: No Light at the End of This Tunnel
Ian Black’s “Enemies and Neighbors” sees no clear solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nonfiction: What Happens When You Go Under
Two new books by Kate Cole-Adams and Henry Jay Przybylo look at the mysteries of anesthesia.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel
Poor black lives weren’t depicted in the serious fiction of Hughes’s day. As Angela Flournoy notes, his debut novel, “Not Without Laughter,” changed that.
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