Crime: Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime
Alchemists and archaeologists are among the characters in this week’s mystery column. Also crooked cops and a very sad, very dead homeless man.
Books of The Times: In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late
Gerda Saunders tries to analyze her dementia as dispassionately as possible in her new book.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: 3 Books That Help Explain American-Cuban Relations
Here are three books that help explain the United States’ fraught historical relationship with Cuba.
By the Book: Emma Straub: By the Book
The author of “Modern Lovers” keeps her youth on a shelf: “There are books I loved in my teens and 20s that I would not love now, but it’s still nice to see them there, as a reminder of a person I used to be.”
Nonfiction: Two New Books Offer Advice for the Socially Awkward
Ty Tashiro (in “Awkward”) and Alan Alda (in “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?”) say people can learn to interact more effectively.
Fiction: Skaters, Beaches and a Drug-Smuggling Stewardess in a Novel of the ’70s
In Daniel Riley’s debut novel, “Fly Me,” a young Vassar grad with a need for speed lights up a laid-back California town.
Nonfiction: A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America
In “The Color of Law,” Richard Rothstein argues that government at all levels and in all branches abetted residential segregation, and the effects endure.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips?
For long trips with adult passengers and shorter trips with kids, our columnist recommends great audiobooks to hold drivers’ attention.
Nonfiction: The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
Apple’s culture of reverence and secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in “The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.”
Nonfiction: How Uber and Airbnb Became Poster Children for the Disruption Economy
Three books reckon with pioneers of the sharing economy; a fourth considers their dark side.
Fiction: In Mexico’s Violent Drug World, a Priest’s Dilemma Over the Seal of Confession
Philip Caputo’s novel tells of an American priest who must decide whether to break the sanctity of confession to inform on narcos.
Q. and A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The End of Advertising’
Andrew Essex discusses his new book about the fate of traditional advertising and what might replace it.
The Book Review Podcast: China’s World
Howard W. French talks about “Everything Under the Heavens,” and Judith Newman discusses new books about how to grieve and how to die.
Newsbook: Three Books on Puerto Rico’s Statehood vs. Independence Debate
As politicians debate the merits of statehood before Congress, here are three books that shed light on the various visions for Puerto Rico’s future.
Fast Success for a Second Novel Two Decades in the Making
Arundhati Roy’s novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” the long-awaited follow-up to “The God of Small Things,” lands at No. 7 in hardcover fiction.
Open Book: A Life in Art
Recorded conversations between artist and curator frame a memoir.
Nonfiction: Machiavelli: Good Guy or Bad? This Biography Argues for the Former
In “Be Like the Fox,” Erica Benner sees Machiavelli as an enemy of autocratic rule who hid his lifelong belief in the people’s will and rule by law.
Children’s Books: What Not to Tell the Kids When the Goldfish Dies, and Other Lessons from Pet Picture Books
A dead goldfish and a botched cover-up, an imaginary pet parakeet — pet-focused picture books help kids make sense of life and loss.
Children’s Books: A Teenager’s Life in the Aftermath of Her Mother’s Sudden Death
In Carol Weston’s perceptive, funny and moving “Speed of Life,” a 14-year-old heroine faces the loss of her mother and her dad’s new dating life.
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