Books News: Lupita Nyong’o to Publish a Children’s Book
Drawing on her experience as a child who felt self-conscious about her dark skin, the actress hopes to help other kids reimagine what is beautiful.
Nonfiction: Gifted and Talented and Complicated
In “Off the Charts,” Ann Hulbert examines the lives of child prodigies, who often fail to sustain their accomplishments into adulthood.
Fiction: A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz
In Nathaniel Rich’s “King Zeno,” a great American city and a new kind of music take shape as the Spanish flu and a serial killer both run rampant.
Interview: No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say
In an exclusive interview, the (former) novelist shares his thoughts on Trump, #MeToo and retirement.
Match Book: Around the World in Books
Authors from across the globe unearth their national roots in both fiction and nonfiction.
Books of The Times: Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters
“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” a posthumous story collection, is a sequel of sorts to Johnson’s influential and beloved “Jesus’ Son.”
Front Burner: Cooking, the Benjamin Franklin Way
A new book explores the food passions and larder of a founding father.
Fiction: Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship
In Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut novel, “Green,” the colors that really matter are black and white.
Profile: Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic
Robert Menasse writes a polyphonic novel of satire and sympathy about Brussels, Europe’s symbolic capital — its bureaucrats, nationalisms and police.
Newsbook: Haiti’s Resilience as Seen Through Literature
Three Haitian writers explore stories of politics, love and violence.
Books News: Stephen King to Receive PEN Literary Service Award
Previous recipients include Stephen Sondheim and J.K. Rowling.
Children’s Books: ‘The War I Finally Won’ Tells One English Girl’s Survival Story
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s follow-up to “The War That Saved My Life” follows its young heroine from life-changing surgery to, finally, a safe home.
The Book Review Podcast: Some Assembly Required
Alexander Langlands discusses “Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts,” and Max Boot talks about “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”
The Shortlist: The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists
Three new books on Vivian Maier, Renoir and Elaine de Kooning explore the personalities and experiences behind the work.
Essay: The Poet of Light
Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
Nonfiction: The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up
Edward L. Ayers’s “The Thin Light of Freedom” presents the War Between the States as experienced by ordinary people.
Nonfiction: What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity?
In “Supernormal,” the psychologist Meg Jay derives lessons from the lives of her troubled patients.
Egos: New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right
Taking on too much and too little are hazards of the form.
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