Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Children’s Books: The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017
Here are the winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards for 2017.
Nonfiction: A Liberal Historian’s Imprint on Mid-Century America
Richard Aldous’s biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. examines the mixed legacy of a liberal literary mind.
Nonfiction: A Liberal Historian’s Imprint on Mid-Century America
Richard Aldous’s biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. examines the mixed legacy of a liberal literary mind.
Essay: Why Arthur Schlesinger’s ‘Disunited States of America’ Lives On
“The Disuniting of America” reminds us that social polarization is about more than the controversy over Confederate statues.
By the Book: Walter Isaacson: By the Book
The author of “Einstein,” “Steve Jobs,” and, most recently, “Leonardo da Vinci,” has a weakness for cyberpunk dating to the 1980s: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson.
Children’s Books: ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet
In these new picture books that will help children settle down for the night, there’s still time to head out for a moonlight ramble.
Nonfiction: James Madison’s Zigzag Path
Noah Feldman’s new biography of the fourth president paints a picture of a man of great political flexibility.
Nonfiction: ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir
The Canadian restaurateur Jen Agg shows she’s eager to curse and digress like the most macho of them.
Fiction: A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero
“Smile,” the author’s 11th novel, is the closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller.
Nonfiction: In ‘Friends Divided,’ John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Beg to Differ
The historian Gordon Wood traces the very long, very complicated relationship between two extraordinary men.
Crime: Big-League Crimes, Solitary Victims and Galloping Escapism
Tales of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher; Henning Mankell’s final novel; and Rita Mae Brown’s latest fox-hunting romp.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: My Father Is an Intellectually Curious Conspiracy Theorist
Nonfiction books, from popular psychology and economics to histories and intimate memoirs, to inspire (not incite) Dad.
Nonfiction: Antonin Scalia’s Speeches, Collected for Argument’s Sake
The words of the late Supreme Court justice and originalist as reviewed by his old sparring partner, Alan Dershowitz.
Nonfiction: Do Americans Need a Prime Minister?
In “The Impossible Presidency,” the historian Jeremi Suri argues that the job has become overwhelmingly complex, more than a single person can handle.
Nonfiction: The War of Independence, Seen Through Six Sets of Eyes
Russell Shorto’s “Revolution Song” recounts the stories of individual lives that intersected with our nation’s battle against enemies at home and abroad.
Q. & A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Hitler in Los Angeles’
Steven J. Ross discusses his new history of Nazi activities in Hollywood, and the spy ring that helped to foil fascist plans.
Children’s Books: A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories
In Katherine Rundell’s “The Explorer,” four kids must find their way out of the jungle after a plane crash, stoking young readers’ dreams and anxieties: What if there were no parents? Could I eat a grub if I had to?
Children’s Books: A Warmhearted, Multiracial Update to the Classic Big-Family Novel
In Karina Yan Glaser’s “The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street,” a family — five children, two parents, three pets — may be forced to leave their beloved Harlem brownstone in this charming debut.
The Book Review Podcast: Marilyn Stasio on True Crime
Stasio discusses new books about real crimes, and Dave Eggers talks about his two new illustrated books.
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