Words by Numbers: The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures
There’s a way to measure the acute emotional intelligence that has never gone out of style.
Editors' Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: As Travel Ban Takes Effect, 3 Books That Delve Into the Immigration Debate
What does a country owe to outsiders? One book attempts to answer this question — and others further explore the complexity of the immigration debate.
Nonfiction: Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College
In “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” Robert M. Sapolsky serves up his neurobiology with a big dose of hipster humor.
By the Book: A. Scott Berg: By the Book
The biographer and consulting producer of Amazon’s “The Last Tycoon” might have been a doctor — “if only that didn’t require courses in biology, physics and organic chemistry. Oh…and med school.”
Fiction: Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore
For the wealthy foreigners on a Greek island in Lawrence Osborne’s “Beautiful Animals,” a deeply compromised act of charity has dreadful consequences.
Nonfiction: America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed?
Jesse Eisinger’s ‘The Chickenshit Club’ outlines the cultural and political shifts that explain why virtually no one was prosecuted for the 2008 financial crisis.
Nonfiction: A Handshake With Kennedy, and a Boy’s Tumultuous Year
In Benjamin Taylor’s memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House,” the Kennedy assassination casts a shadow over one Texas family’s personal dramas.
Nonfiction: The Beginning of the End in Vietnam: An Account of the Battle of Hue, by the Author of ‘Black Hawk Down’
Mark Bowden’s “Hue 1968” recounts a battle that was a turning point in the Vietnam War.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Send Me Some Knockout Short Stories for Summer
Recommendations for a new devotee of short fiction include books by Nam Le, Deborah Eisenberg and Edward P. Jones.
Nonfiction: Stories of a Lifelong Fascination With Africa
In “Love, Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes his enduring preoccupation with the continent and the career it has engendered.
Nonfiction: Hippos and Monkeys and Chimps, Oh My! The History of the London Zoo
Animals fare really badly in “The Zoo,” Isobel Charman’s entertaining account of the London Zoo’s 19th-century origins.
Nonfiction: How Fast Can a Ford Car Go?
In “Return to Glory” — part business book, part adventure saga — Matthew DeBord chronicles the Ford Motor Company’s attempt to compete at Le Mans.
An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
The strange case of Curtis Dawkins: How a convicted murderer ended up with a major book deal at one of the country’s top publishing houses.
The Long View: ‘I Have Passed the Point of Reacting’: How the Watergate News Cycle Reads Today
Jon Meacham looks at three signature works about Watergate — by Elizabeth Drew, Art Buchwald and Theodore H. White — to see how the news of the ’70s resonates.
The Book Review Podcast: Silk on a Stick
Aaron Retica talks about Tim Marshall’s “A Flag Worth Dying For,” and Jill Eisenstadt discusses her new novel, “Swell.”
Readers Come for the Characters but Stay for the Animals
“I was very struck by how beautiful this area was,” the eco-minded South Carolina novelist Mary Alice Monroe says, “and how quickly it can disappear.”
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Poetry: A Poet’s Bicoastal Conjurings, From Garden State to Golden Gate
August Kleinzahler’s double poetry collection, “Before Dawn on Bluff Road” and “Hollyhocks in the Fog,” shows how grounded he is in a sense of place.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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