Ivory Tower: Unknown Unknowns: Three Inquiries Into Religion
What is religion? New books by a philosopher, a sociologist and a theologian give different answers.
Fiction: One Woman’s Liberation, Set Against the Russian Revolution
Janet Fitch’s historical novel, “The Revolution of Marina M.,” follows a young aristocrat-turned-Bolshevik as she navigates political and personal upheaval.
The Shortlist: The Roots of Revolution
Four new books explore the philosophical and political sources of the Russian Revolution, its early influences and how it influenced other movements.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Van Jones Sees More Political Rebellions on the Horizon
In “Beyond the Messy Truth,” new on the nonfiction best-seller list, the CNN commentator blames an elitist system for the state of the country.
Fiction: Anti-Semitism Heralds a Grim Future in This Classic Romanian Novel
The Jewish protagonist of Mihail Sebastian’s “For Two Thousand Years” wonders what it means to love a country that doesn’t love him back.
Fiction: Trying to Follow the Muse While Domestic Life Calls
In Cherise Wolas’s debut novel, “The Resurrection of Joan Ashby,” a writer struggles to recover her footing and her self after raising a family.
Open Book: A Quiet Member of the Canon
“A Difficult Death” is the first critical biography in English of the 19th-century Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen.
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: an endorsement of James Billington’s sharp intellectual study of Russian culture.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Jan Morris’s review of “Victoria & Abdul” and more.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Books of The Times: In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder
Joe Ide’s follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, “IQ,” begins in the exact spot that story left off: in a junkyard with a car full of evidence.
Book News: Australia’s Amazon Book Battle
The online retailer is moving in. Booksellers are nervous. But disrupting Australians’ reading habits might not be so easy to do.
Nonfiction: A Portrait of Stalin in All His Murderous Contradictions
The second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography “Stalin” reveals the ideologue and the opportunist.
Nonfiction: The First Totalitarian
Victor Sebestyen’s “Lenin” describes the inventor of a secular religion.
By the Book: Simon Schama: By the Book
The author of the two-volume “Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900” didn’t finish reading Elena Ferrante’s “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”: “I left.”
Books of The Times: With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy
The author of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy returns, with answers to the questions what happened first and what happens next.
Book News: A New Novel From the Late Sam Shepard to Be Published in December
Knopf will publish “Spy of the First Person,” which the actor and playwright wrote in the final months of his life.
Nonfiction: Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today
In “Red Famine,” Anne Applebaum shines a light on clashing nationalisms in a richly detailed account of the 20th-century Soviet republic’s great famine.
Further Reading: Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism
Strobe Talbott on Alan Bullock’s “Hitler and Stalin” and Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny,” which span the arc of the Russian Revolution to the present.
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