Editors' Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Man Who Ran the Country While Lincoln Lay Dying
Walter Stahr’s “Stanton” is a sympathetic treatment of the war secretary Edwin Stanton, a man once accused of complicity in Lincoln’s assassination.
Fiction: When Supernatural Abilities Are Less a Blessing Than a Curse
Daryl Gregory’s new novel, “Spoonbenders,” features the conflicted members of a family of psychics.
By the Book: Philippa Gregory: By the Book
The author of “The Last Tudor” is no fan of “sloppy genre novels”: “The typing alone is so exhausting — surely if you’re going to undertake 150,000 words, you might as well have something interesting to say?”
Newsbook: 3 Books That Can Help Explain the Crisis in Venezuela
Two biographies — of Simon Bolívar and Hugo Chávez — explain the men’s outsized influence on the country, and another book offers a path forward.
Nonfiction: 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature
Bill Goldstein’s “The World Broke in Two” looks at four British writers — Woolf, Eliot, Forster and Lawrence — at a turning point in history.
Fiction: A Fictional Trip Through the Highly Politicized World of Children’s Literature
In Julia Glass’s novel, “A House Among the Trees,” a renowned author suddenly dies, leaving his longtime assistant to untangle his knotty legacy.
Fiction: A Double Murder Crossed With a Not-Quite Ghost Story
The troubled family in J. Robert Lennon’s “Broken River” discovers that small-town life offers no refuge.
Nonfiction: The Personal and Political Struggles of the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Erica Wagner’s “Chief Engineer,” a biography of Washington Roebling, describes both his innovations and his lifelong hardships.
Nonfiction: ‘I Always Prefer a Flawed Narrator to a Perfect One’
Jami Attenberg reviews Heather Chaplin’s “Reckless Years,” a memoir of an unhappy marriage that gave way to a tumultuous journey of self-discovery.
Fiction: Science, Art and Redemption in the Land of the Penguins
An ensemble cast is gathered in Ashley Shelby’s novel, “South Pole Station,” to witness the tragicomic results of a climate-change denier’s arrival.
What to Read Before Your Trip to Grasse, France, the Perfume Capital of the World
These three books peek behind the curtain of the multibillion-dollar fragrance industry.
Crime: Mothers and Brothers in Peril, and More New Crime Fiction
Marilyn Stasio’s crime column features mothers in distress, a missing brother and a detective coming face to face with a son he didn’t know he had.
Match Book: Books About Curious Minds, Recommended for the Curious Minded
Our Match Book columnist offers insightful life studies, correspondence and peeks into the curio cabinet, for fans of biographies of creative types.
Nonfiction: Assessing the Value of Buddhism, for Individuals and for the World
In “Buddhism Is True,” Robert Wright looks at the psychological benefits of a Buddhist practice.
Fiction: This Story of Love and Gaming Pits the Real Against the Virtual
In Allegra Goodman’s novel “The Chalk Artist,” the world of online gaming threatens to destroy the lives of two young men.
Children’s Authors Take On the Refugee Crisis
More than a dozen new books feature young displaced Muslims as protagonists as writers use the current tumult to personalize the conflicts for readers.
Encounters: Of Mice and Men Like Mick Jagger: A Literary Scion Tells All
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, a daughter of Lady Antonia and Sir Hugh, discusses a dishy new memoir inspired by Andy Warhol and others in his circle.
Newsbook: Missing the Eclipse? Read All About It.
The celestial phenomenon will be fully visible in 14 states across the United States. These books tell you all you need to know.
Inside the List: A Final Mystery for Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist and Sleuth
The crime writer Elizabeth Peters (a.k.a. Barbara Mertz) died in 2013. But her friend and fellow novelist Joan Hess has completed her last manuscript.
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