Editors’ Choice: 8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: What Happens When the President Ignores — and Even Belittles — His Own Intelligence Community?
The former C.I.A. head Michael Hayden lays out the dangers in his new book, “The Assault on Intelligence.”
By the Book: John McCain: By the Book
Senator John McCain, whose new book is “The Restless Wave,” thinks all children should read “Huckleberry Finn”: “It’s funny and it’s scary, and it teaches us to see past our differences.”
Nonfiction: What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries
In “Dancing Bears,” the Polish journalist Witold Szablowski uses the stories of liberated circus animals to illuminate various nations’ uncertain paths to democracy.
Bookshelf: Two New Works of Fiction About Mass Transit and a Daring Female Pilot
The actor David Duchovny’s third novel was inspired by a Yeats play, “The Only Jealousy of Elmer,” while Theasa Tuohy’s book was inspired by a 2010 Times obituary.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States
Elaine Castillo’s “America Is Not the Heart” exposes the social injustices of life as an immigrant in 1990s California.
Essay: The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times
Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” Julian Lucas explains.
Nonfiction: A Disaster at Sea, Animated by 26 Hours of Black-Box Recordings
The transcript from El Faro’s voyage data recorder is the most detailed record of a maritime disaster ever, and with “Into the Raging Sea” Rachel Slade makes excellent use of it.
Nonfiction: How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater
In “Something Wonderful,” Todd S. Purdum analyzes the extraordinary legacy of two brilliant songwriters.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: 11 Novels for the Would-Be Time Traveler
From the bones of 15th-century monarchs, to Neanderthals mingling with modern humans, to speculative tales of African elephants: stories to transport you back to the beginning.
Fiction: The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past
In Charles Frazier’s novel “Varina,” a late-life meeting with a former slave triggers painful memories for the much younger wife of Jefferson Davis.
Nonfiction: America’s Most Famous Street
Fran Leadon’s “Broadway” tells the story of New York City through one thoroughfare.
Graphic Content: Comics in Black and White That Are Anything but Simple
New works by Eleanor Davis and John Porcellino play with the theoretical and absurd.
The Book Review Podcast: Julian Barnes on ‘The Only Story’
Barnes talks about his latest novel, and Lawrence Wright discusses “God Save Texas.”
SKetchbook: Revisiting of the Legacy of the Fonz
James Kochalka creates an illustrated homage to the iconic “Happy Days” character through the lens of “The Catcher in the Rye.”
The Shortlist: Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally
Criticism in verse? Finishing Beckett’s unfinished manuscript? A memoiristic meditation on Kathy Acker? These authors embrace hybrid forms to analyze the literature they love.
Fiction: Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest
Malinda McCollum’s debut collection, “The Surprising Place,” reveals the darkly comic underbelly of Des Moines.
Fiction: A Cyclops With a Dating Profile and Other Fanciful Characters
Ramona Ausubel’s new collection of stories, “Awayland,” abounds in unusual families and memorably poetic details.
Nonfiction: The Tragedy of 1968: What Might Have Been if King and Kennedy Had Lived
David Margolick’s “The Promise and the Dream” examines the complicated relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
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