Fiction: In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open
In “The Ninth Hour,” the cause of a young Irish widow and her daughter is taken up by the nuns of a Brooklyn convent.
Profile: The World According to Dan Brown
A visit with Dan Brown, whose new novel — as with all of his works — doesn’t shy away from the big questions, but rushes pell-mell into them. In “Origin,” the question is: Can science make religion obsolete?
Profile: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual
“Between the World and Me,” Coates’s treatise on black male life in America, catapulted him to prominence. Coates spoke to The Times about his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power,” his year in Paris and what he’s up to next.
The Book Review Podcast: Recent Romances
Robert Gottlieb talks about new romance novels, and Celeste Ng discusses her new novel, “Little Fires Everywhere.”
The Shortlist: The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines
Three recent books revisit the works of literary forebears to revive characters and contexts from centuries past.
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Gucci Mane’s Inspirational Guide to Self-Improvement (in Prison)
In “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane,” the Atlanta rapper details how exercise and books helped him improve himself behind bars.
Crime: The Latest and Greatest in Crime Fiction
New mysteries include Anne Perry’s “An Echo of Murder” and Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird.”
Fiction: An ‘Antigone’ for a Time of Terror
In Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Home Fire,” British Muslims contend with identity, terrorism and divided loyalties.
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Onward and Upward Path in 1980s New York
Vivian Gornick reviews Adam Gopnik’s memoir, “At the Strangers’ Gate,” which intertwines his early professional life with the city’s cultural history.
Nonfiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Visions for His Daughter
In “Autumn,” addressed to his unborn child, the Norwegian writer focuses on the household preoccupations of middle age, shorn of novelistic glamour.
Nonfiction: The Transcontinental Life of an 18th-Century Woman of Letters
Based on volumes of Lady Anne Barnard’s private and published writing, “Defiance,” by Stephen Taylor, reveals the inner world of a quiet revolutionary.
Man of ‘Gotham’ Returns
“Gotham” — a 1,400-page radical history of New York — was an unlikely hit. Now, 20 years later, Mike Wallace has finished Volume II. And he’s still not done.
Letters to the Editor
Geoffrey C. Ward, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vanessa Grigoriadis respond to reviews.
Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Q. & A.: Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare
In his bold modern adaptation of King Lear, St. Aubyn envisions Lear as an aging media mogul whose empire and legacy are under threat from his daughters.
By the Book: Jennifer Egan: By the Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Visit From the Goon Squad” and the forthcoming “Manhattan Beach” reads only what she craves: “If I try to read a book I’m not hungry for, I won’t enjoy it.”
Nonfiction: Two Memoirs Celebrate Muses With Four Legs
Eileen Myles and Nicole J. Georges write about the dogs that helped them become better artists.
Open Book: A Guide to Graveside Tourism
“199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die” is a guide to checking out the hereafter before you check out.
Nonfiction: Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One Lost Knish Place at a Time
In “Vanishing New York,” Jeremiah Moss laments the transformation of a city into a place that no longer accommodates failure.
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