The Shortlist: Five Poets Explore the Intersection of Self and Other
Stephanie Burt reviews recent collections by Rosa Alcalá, Chrstopher Kempf, Anthony Madrid, Shane McCrae and Erin Moure.
Nonfiction: Between the Presidency and Him
The poet Kevin Young on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “We Were Eight Years in Power.”
Nonfiction: When Democracy Dies Not in Darkness but in Dysfunction
In “Democracy and Its Crisis,” A.C. Grayling describes the current challenges facing representative government and issues a dire warning.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: Oriana Fallaci, Right or Wrong
A new biography by Cristina De Stefano tries to rehabilitate the controversial journalist’s reputation.
Fiction: Daniel Handler’s Coming-of-Age Novel Offers ‘All the Dirty Parts’
In a world where pornography is everywhere, Handler traces the desires and sexual awakenings of a typical straight adolescent boy.
Otherworldly: Magic and Moon Life: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy
N.K. Jemisin reviews Andy Weir’s follow-up to “The Martian,” along with new novels by Kat Howard, Axie Oh and Stephen R. Donaldson.
Nonfiction: Fleur Jaeggy’s Portraits of Past Lives
The underappreciated Swiss Italian writer has two newly translated books in her ruminating, elliptical style.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Martin Amis’s essay and expound on Kurt Vonnegut’s time in public relations.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Children’s Books: The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017
Here are the winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards for 2017.
Nonfiction: A Liberal Historian’s Imprint on Mid-Century America
Richard Aldous’s biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. examines the mixed legacy of a liberal literary mind.
Nonfiction: A Liberal Historian’s Imprint on Mid-Century America
Richard Aldous’s biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. examines the mixed legacy of a liberal literary mind.
Essay: Why Arthur Schlesinger’s ‘Disunited States of America’ Lives On
“The Disuniting of America” reminds us that social polarization is about more than the controversy over Confederate statues.
By the Book: Walter Isaacson: By the Book
The author of “Einstein,” “Steve Jobs,” and, most recently, “Leonardo da Vinci,” has a weakness for cyberpunk dating to the 1980s: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson.
Children’s Books: ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet
In these new picture books that will help children settle down for the night, there’s still time to head out for a moonlight ramble.
Nonfiction: James Madison’s Zigzag Path
Noah Feldman’s new biography of the fourth president paints a picture of a man of great political flexibility.
Nonfiction: ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir
The Canadian restaurateur Jen Agg shows she’s eager to curse and digress like the most macho of them.
Fiction: A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero
“Smile,” the author’s 11th novel, is the closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller.
Nonfiction: In ‘Friends Divided,’ John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Beg to Differ
The historian Gordon Wood traces the very long, very complicated relationship between two extraordinary men.
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