Nonfiction: How Does Empathy Work? A Writer Explores the Science and Its Applications
In “I Feel You,” Cris Beam examines how we come to feel one another’s pain.
Profile: A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds
Maximilian Uriarte attributes his success with “Terminal Lance” to accuracy and raw material from his loyal fans.
Books News: Sales Figures for Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty’ Dwarf Recent Political Best Sellers
Amazon limited reviews of the book to readers who have purchased it on its site.
Nonfiction: In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There
Two new books, “The Space Barons” and “Rocket Billionaires,” tell the story of the entrepreneurial push to leave Earth.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created
Amy Chozick’s “Chasing Hillary” describes the impossibility of covering the two Clinton presidential campaigns.
Fiction: When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime
Two new novels — “If We Had Known,” by Elise Juska, and “How to Be Safe,” by Tom McAllister — imagine communities roiled by mass murder.
Nonfiction: How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’
The sociologist Manuel Pastor explores the rise, fall and rise again of America’s most populous state.
Nonfiction: The State That Foreshadows America’s Future
Lawrence Wright’s “God Save Texas” is a loving and skeptical portrait of the place he calls home.
The Book Review Podcast: Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’
James Shapiro discusses Nesbo’s new novel, and Leila Slimani talks about “The Perfect Nanny.”
Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now
In her new book, “Fascism: A Warning,” the former secretary of state finds the seeds of authoritarian rule in social, political and economic chaos.
Inside the List: This Best-Selling Author Lives With 4 Dogs, 17 Chickens, 3 Horses, a Pony and a Cat
She may care for a veritable menagerie, but Lisa Scottoline still writes three books a year, including the just-published thriller “After Anna.”
Nonfiction: A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story
The Harvard geneticist David Reich details his groundbreaking research into ancient DNA in “Who We Are and How We Got Here.”
Fiction: In This Novel, a Grieving Widow Becomes the Detective Hero
“The Bible of Dirty Jokes,” by Eileen Pollack, tracks a middle-aged woman’s quest to find her lost brother and her own independence.
Fiction: A War Correspondent Comes Home, Bringing War With Her
The heroine of Wendell Steavenson’s novel, “Paris Metro,” hoping to find safety for her Iraqi stepson in France, encounters danger instead.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Shortlist: Four Books Explore Various Aspects of Cities Past and Present
Ecology, eccentricity, celebrity, policy: Urban living brings it all together.
Fiction: When a Young Immigrant Vanishes in London, Can a Wildlife Biologist Help?
In Aminatta Forna’s novel “Happiness,” an American biologist and a Ghanaian psychiatrist find common ground among the urban dispossessed.
Nonfiction: How Picasso Became Picasso
In “Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World,” Miles J. Unger follows the painter’s early career, culminating in “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
Nonfiction: When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide
John Lewis Gaddis’s “On Grand Strategy” is a study of global thinking at the highest levels.
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