The Shortlist: How Movies Work
Three new books by prominent cinephiles: Dave Kehr, Jim Shepard and Eric Lax.
Fiction: Ghosts, Literal and Figurative, Haunt Magda Szabo’s Novel
Magda Szabo’s “Katalin Street” revolves around three families torn apart by what happened in Hungary during World War II.
A Young Soldier’s Moral Compromise
Devin Murphy’s debut novel, “The Boat Runner,” tracks one man’s descent from his idyllic, small-town roots to the guilt-ridden life of a Nazi.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There?
In Nidhi Chanani’s “Pashmina,” a magical scarf helps an Indian-American girl understand the gulf between her family’s past and her own present in this captivating graphic novel.
Nonfiction: Hunt for a Good Beginning. Then Write It.
John McPhee’s “Draft No. 4” collects eight essays that offer writing advice and take readers behind the scenes of his creative process.
Fiction: ‘Ferocity’ Brings Florida Noir to Southern Italy
In Nicola Lagioia’s thriller with social-novel ambitions, a beautiful dead woman is the key to an illicit underworld.
Children’s Books: Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth
How much do we really know about the children in the Grimms’ fairy tales? Two authors flesh out familiar characters in revamped versions of the classics.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Martin Amis’s essay and expound on the roles of religion.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Lemony Snicket on the importance of picture books.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Children’s Books: Who’s a Hero? Who’s a Villain? It’s Anyone’s Guess in This Fall’s Best Y.A. Fantasy
Teenage bounty hunters in a virtual-reality world, Amazons in New York City, vicious unicorns and other good guys gone bad.
Children’s Books: Under Siege From a Mysterious Fog
Based on an Oscar-nominated short film, “The Dam Keeper,” a richly drawn graphic novel, tells of a heroic pig who must save his village from a dark and deadly force.
By the Book: Krysten Ritter: By the Book
The actress and author of a thriller, “Bonfire,” can’t read on the set of “Jessica Jones”: “It is crazy exciting! But it’s not a reading environment.”
Children’s Books: Learning the Art of the Pickpocket
Colin Meloy’s latest novel follows a wealthy, neglected boy who joins a legendary gang of child grifters. What could go wrong?
Nonfiction: A Grand Tour of the Crisis in Europe
In “Fractured Continent,” William Drozdiak presents Europe from its various capitals, highlighting the difficult, new reality of the 21st century.
World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict
Thomas E. Ricks surveys 12 new books of military history.
Children’s Books: Bookshelf: Capturing the Magic of Wintertime
Mice that ice-skate, kids who make a snowbear, twins who discover a winter wonderland and more in this season’s best cold-weather picture books.
Children’s Books: A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead
“The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine,” completed and illustrated by Erin and Philip Stead, unites old-fashioned storytelling virtues with a playful modern sensibility.
Nonfiction: Amid African Extremism, a Writer Finds an ‘Ordinary and Rare Kind of Bravery’
Alexis Okeowo’s book “A Moonless, Starless Sky” profiles regular people living in defiance of extremist movements across the African continent.
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