Nonfiction: ‘Streampunks’ Serves Up YouTube’s Greatest Hits
Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s chief business officer, delivers a lively, if biased, history of the video-sharing platform’s most noteworthy success stories.
Nonfiction: When the Governments of the World Agreed to Banish War
“The Internationalists,” by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, argues that a 1928 pact was the beginning of the end of war.
By the Book: Celeste Ng: By the Book
The author of, most recently, “Little Fires Everywhere,” often returns to “The Count of Monte Cristo”: “Right now, I see it as an exploration of the complexities of good and evil and how easily one shifts into the other.”
Newsbook: For Hispanic Heritage Month, 3 Books on Latinos in the U.S.
From conquistadores to modern cultural enclaves, these books trace the centuries-long Latino experience in the United States.
Nonfiction: A Wild and Exacting Food Writer Gets Her Due
Patience Gray exerted an outsize influence on the culinary world, as Adam Federman’s biography “Fasting and Feasting” makes clear.
Nonfiction: Alice Waters Retraces the Path That Led Her to Chez Panisse
According to a new autobiography, “Coming to My Senses,” it all began with a year in Paris and a taste for the food she discovered there.
Book News: YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year
Following in the footsteps of his older brother, the best-selling novelist John Green, Hank Green will publish his first novel with Dutton
Nonfiction: When Corruption and Venality Were the Lifeblood of America
“The Republic for Which It Stands,” Richard White’s broad-ranging history, describes a country lashed by greed and brutality.
Nonfiction: The Education of Ellen Pao
In “Reset,” the Silicon Valley executive and former venture capitalist explains how she came to question the culture of the tech industry.
Match Book: Books That Show the Heights of Human Strength, the Limits of Endurance
From natural disaster to wild beasts and warfare, tragedies factual and fictional so vivid that they’ll strike terror in the heart of any reader.
Books of The Times: A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together
Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” recounts what happened when the author’s 81-year-old father enrolled in one of his son’s classes at Bard College.
Nonfiction: Survival of the Prettiest
Darwin’s theory of aesthetics may be the sexiest, most dangerous idea in evolution.
The Book Review Podcast: Notes From a Crazy Campaign Trail
Jill Abramson discusses Katy Tur’s new memoir, “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.”
Book News: A Green Light Is Given, It’s True, for a Grown-Up Cindy Lou Who
A federal judge has ruled that “Who’s Holiday!” doesn’t violate the copyright of the Dr. Seuss classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
Books News: Three Debut Novelists Make the National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
Nominees include Jennifer Egan, Lisa Ko, David Grann, Kevin Young and Alarcón
Open Book: Gallery of Horrors
“Paperbacks from Hell” collects hundreds of memorable horror-fiction cover designs.
Further Reading: 20 Must-Read Books on the Vietnam War
Here’s a list of essential reading — just in time for the new Ken Burns documentary — on the conflict that divided America.
Inside the List: Alice Waters’s Grilled Cheese Is Not Like Yours and Mine
In her best-selling new memoir, “Coming to My Senses,” the chef recommends a French mountain cheese and homemade sauerkraut for a childhood staple.
Fiction: A 19th-Century Smuggler in the Peruvian Andes
Natasha Pulley’s rambunctious historical novel “The Bedlam Stacks” sends a British adventurer on a magic realist mission to South America.
Fiction: In Salman Rushdie’s New Novel, the Backdrop Is the Obama Years
“The Golden House” tells the story of a billionaire patriarch and his enigmatic family after they arrive in New York.
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