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: Salman Rushdie on importance of “global dialogue.”
Essay: After the Hurricane Winds Die Down, Larry McMurtry’s Houston Trilogy Lives On
Douglas Brinkley on the writer whose fiction has captured the boom city’s relentless appetite for growth.
Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Sally Quinn: By the Book
The author of, most recently, “Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir,” doesn’t like to read short story collections, “especially if they’re good, because they always leave me wanting more.”
Nonfiction: How the New Immigration Is Shaking Old Europe to Its Core
“The Strange Death of Europe,” by Douglas Murray, and “The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe,” by Rita Chin, examine divisive debates over Western values.
Nonfiction: The Vietnam War Then and Now
Geoffrey C. Ward’s “The Vietnam War” relives a conflict that divided Americans 50 years ago, and continues to evoke bitter memories today.
Newsbook: 3 Books on the Importance of Early Education
As policy makers, teachers, and parents work to expand pre-K programs, here are three books on what children really need.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Imagines Political Intrigue at the 1939 World’s Fair
In Brendan Mathews’s “The World of Tomorrow,” two brothers fleeing Ireland for New York get embroiled in a wild assassination plot.
Nonfiction: A History of Bloomberg’s Successes and Failures
Chris McNickle’s biography of Mike Bloomberg shows how New York’s mayor for 12 years used data and analysis to successfully transform the city.
Crime: Bad Neighbors, Bad Husbands and Very Bad Behavior
Two new crime novels travel back to the not-so-placid 1950s, while a third visits 19th-century Appalachia. Another tries to escape in a hot-air balloon.
The Long View: ‘What Happened’? They Lost. With Her Memoir, Hillary Clinton Joins a Haunted Club
Jon Meacham on how Clinton’s chronicle of loss in 2016 compares with those of defeated candidates past.
Fiction: In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves
Two New Yorkers — an aging lawyer and a young writer — make their way, separately, to Tel Aviv.
Nonfiction: A Memoir by Donald Trump’s Favorite Target
“Unbelievable,” by the NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, describes what it was like to be on the front lines during the Trump presidential campaign.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: It’s My First Foray Into Graphic Fiction
For readers seeking a novel kind of novel: illustrated narratives that harness the comic-book format to treat even the weightiest of themes.
Fiction: Broken Promises in the Promised Land
Mixing genres and voices, Nathan Englander’s novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” offers a tragicomic take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nonfiction: The Right Way to Memorialize an Unpopular War
James Reston Jr.’s “A Rift in the Earth” tells how a bitter controversy over the Vietnam War memorial ended in national reconciliation.
The Book Review Podcast: ‘Gorbachev: His Life and Times’
William Taubman discusses his biography of Gorbachev, and N. K. Jemisin talks about reading, writing and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.
Newsbook: In Harvey and Irma’s Wake, 3 Books on Hurricanes
Two books follow families affected by similar disasters, and a third argues that humans may hold the key to mitigating their impact.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the complicated relationship we have to Freud.
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