Colson Whitehead, Elif Batuman Among Writers to Appear at Brooklyn Book Festival
Colson Whitehead will receive the Best of Brooklyn Award.
By the Book: Joseph Kanon: By the Book
The author of “Defectors” says that he likes to cook, but likes to read cookbooks even more. “And the best cookbooks have really distinctive voices. I never met Marcella Hazan, but I feel I have.”
Nonfiction: America’s Collision Course With China
Two new books on China, "Everything Under the Heavens” and “Destined for War,” urge us to be ready for a radically different world order.
Essay: How to Live With Critics (Whether You’re an Artist or the President)
“Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic,” the president said recently. Artists might well feel a sneaking sympathy with this notion.
Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate
Ms. Smith, 45, says she hopes to be a poetry evangelist of sorts, going to parts of the United States “where literary festivals don’t always go.”
Books of The Times: Sherman Alexie’s Complicated Grief for His Mother
In his memoir, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Alexie explores grief, poverty and his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Critic’s Take: The Modern Trans Memoir Comes of Age
Two new memoirs, by Janet Mock and Caitlyn Jenner, reveal how trans writing about identity is evolving.
A Literary Tour of Italy’s Libraries
Italy’s libraries offer a convergence of architecture, literature and history. These books take you inside their walls.
Fiction: A High-Stakes New York City Thriller Where Noir and Nostalgia Meet
“You Belong to Me,” Colin Harrison’s first thriller in eight years, features a noirish love triangle and an obsessive collector of maps.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: I Need Short but Great Books for My Commute
Wherein the bookish commuter’s lament — “The most I can read is for 30 minutes and that’s typically a train or bus ride” — is solved.
Sherman Alexie and the Tricky Art of Memoir
In a new book inspired by his mother’s death, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Mr. Alexie plays with the complexities of autobiography.
Nonfiction: How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down
In Nick Bilton’s “American Kingpin,” the former boy scout who started the Silk Road is brought down by federal agents in a dizzying manhunt.
Fiction: In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels
Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, colorful booksellers and a sleepy resort town make for a leisurely, lawyerless John Grisham jaunt.
Newsbook: 3 Books on the Evolution of the Gay Rights Movement
As gay pride month kicks into gear, here are three books on the history of the gay rights movement.
Open Book: The Luckiest Man on Earth
In “The Pride of the Yankees,” Richard Sandomir tells the story behind what he calls “the first great sports film.”
The Book Review Podcast: Al Franken on Life in the Senate
Franken discusses his new political memoir; Thomas E. Ricks talks about “Churchill and Orwell”; and Dav Pilkey on the movie adaptation of “Captain Underpants” and more.
A Return to Middle-Earth, 44 Years After Tolkien’s Death
In “Beren and Luthien,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s son traces the romance between a human and an elf through his father’s notes and drafts and epic poems.
Nonfiction: A Poet’s Loving Take on Her Unorthodox Catholic Family
In her memoir “Priestdaddy,” the poet Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up the daughter of an irrepressible Catholic priest.
Nonfiction: Lenin’s Return From Exile Put Russia on the Fast Track to Revolution
In “Lenin on the Train,” Catherine Merridale explains how Russian chaos in 1917 helped lead to a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
Nonfiction: A Counterterrorism Expert Explains How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead
In “Anatomy of Terror,” the former F.B.I. agent Ali Soufan assesses the relentless spread of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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