By the Book: Roz Chast: By the Book
The author of, most recently, “Going Into Town,” enjoys listening to audiobooks while working on a craft project like embroidering: “My idea of a really good time.”
Light Reading: Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly
Last year the Nobel committee shocked folks around the world with its selection for the literature prize — most notably the awardee himself.
Nonfiction: 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations
Kevin Peraino’s “A Force So Swift” recounts a turning point that continues to haunt Washington and Beijing.
Poetry: Five Decades of Frank Bidart’s Verse, From Masks to Self-Mythology
The collected poems in “Half-Light,” long-listed for the National Book Award, let readers trace the evolution of a sophisticated modern master.
Nonfiction: Learning About Women’s Lives Through the Food They Consumed
In “What She Ate,” Laura Shapiro offers biographical portraits of six notable women and their diets, including Helen Gurley Brown and Eva Braun.
Nonfiction: In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises
In her new book, Gessen, a journalist and longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, recounts the experiences of seven people living in post-Communist Russia.
Fiction: In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront
A missing father, an underworld boss and a female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yards anchor the Pulitzer winner’s first novel since “A Visit From the Goon Squad.”
Fiction: A Second Wife Haunted by the Shadow of Her Husband’s First
Lily Tuck’s new novel, steeped in references to literary forebears, exposes the psychological obsession of women who’ve wed the same man.
Nonfiction: When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher
Shrabani Basu’s “Victoria & Abdul,” now also a film starring Judi Dench, portrays the bond between the British queen and her Indian teacher.
Match Book: Illustrated Books to Help Children Embrace Their Differences
Ferdinand the peaceful bull, a blue crayon named Red and other misunderstood heroes who teach kids it’s ok to be themselves.
Nonfiction: A Trust Buster for the New ‘Knowledge Monopoly’
Franklin Foer argues that Silicon Valley is an “existential threat” to the individual and society.
Fiction: In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open
In “The Ninth Hour,” the cause of a young Irish widow and her daughter is taken up by the nuns of a Brooklyn convent.
Profile: The World According to Dan Brown
A visit with Dan Brown, whose new novel — as with all of his works — doesn’t shy away from the big questions, but rushes pell-mell into them. In “Origin,” the question is: Can science make religion obsolete?
Profile: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual
“Between the World and Me,” Coates’s treatise on black male life in America, catapulted him to prominence. Coates spoke to The Times about his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power,” his year in Paris and what he’s up to next.
The Book Review Podcast: Recent Romances
Robert Gottlieb talks about new romance novels, and Celeste Ng discusses her new novel, “Little Fires Everywhere.”
The Shortlist: The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines
Three recent books revisit the works of literary forebears to revive characters and contexts from centuries past.
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Gucci Mane’s Inspirational Guide to Self-Improvement (in Prison)
In “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane,” the Atlanta rapper details how exercise and books helped him improve himself behind bars.
Crime: The Latest and Greatest in Crime Fiction
New mysteries include Anne Perry’s “An Echo of Murder” and Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird.”
Fiction: An ‘Antigone’ for a Time of Terror
In Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Home Fire,” British Muslims contend with identity, terrorism and divided loyalties.
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