Audiobooks: A Celebrity Couples Therapist Turns to Adultery
In a new audiobook, “The State of Affairs,” Esther Perel follows up on “Mating in Captivity” by focusing on the husbands and wives who stray.
Inside the List: Donna Brazile Says She Foresaw Clinton’s Defeat
In a best-selling campaign memoir, “Hacks,” the Democratic operative and former party chair reveals she never trusted the polls.
Nonfiction: Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide
Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” is both an analysis of a classic and a memoir of his family.
Nonfiction: A Journey of Belonging
In “Real American: A Memoir,” Julie Lythcott-Haims describes growing up biracial in a mostly white milieu.
Fiction: A Novelist Revisits a Deadly Textile Union Strike From 1929
Wiley Cash’s heroine in “The Last Ballad” is based on a real-life union organizer and folk singer now mostly lost to history.
Fiction: Life, Love and Mortality in the City of Light
A septuagenarian cellist faces down his personal and professional losses in Mark Helprin’s novel “Paris in the Present Tense.”
Nonfiction: The Day Wall Street Collapsed
Diana B. Henriques’s “A First-Class Catastrophe” is a minute-by-minute account of the stock market disaster of Oct. 19, 1987.
Nonfiction: Elizabeth Hardwick Showed What Essays Could Do
“The Collected Essays,” edited by Darryl Pinckney, reveal as much about who Hardwick was as they do about the fiction she loved.
Nonfiction: The First Modern President
Robert W. Merry’s “President McKinley” argues for the centrality of a generally forgotten chief executive.
Nonfiction: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Eric Garner’s Life and Death
In “I Can’t Breathe,” Matt Taibbi reports on the people and the policies that shaped the course of Garner’s life.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Alan Dershowitz’s review of “Scalia Speaks” and implore Ron Chernow to rethink his ideal dinner guests.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Profile: A Chinese Novelist Is Found in Translation
For Xue Yiwei, Canada was a safe haven in which to write, but now he’s finding an audience abroad that appreciates his subversive novel.
The Troublesome Universe Of 'Valiant Dust'
Richard Baker is an established voice in military science fiction; his latest, Valiant Dust, kicks off a new space adventure series. But it's hampered by shallow characters and cultural blindness.
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Crime: Deadly Deeds, From Snowy Iceland to the 42nd Street Library
New crime novels by Barclay, Indridason and Lehane take readers from New York to Reykjavik. Then Goldstone goes back in time for a medical mystery.
By the Book: Andy Weir: By the Book
The author of “The Martian” and, most recently, “Artemis” has never read Frank Herbert’s “Dune”: “Yes, I know. I’m the worst sci-fi fan in the universe.”
Jesmyn Ward Wins National Book Award for ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’
It is the second National Book Award for Ms. Ward, a Mississippi native who also won in 2011 for her novel “Salvage the Bones.”
Andy Weir Aims To Duplicate His Martian Success With 'Artemis'
Weir returns to a successful formula in his new book — action and adventure in space, with a snarky voice and plenty of reader-friendly science — though this time the story moves to a moon colony.
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Louise Erdrich Delivers A Dystopian Feminist Thriller In 'Future Home'
In Erdrich's new novel, fetuses seem to be randomly devolving and a new religious government is rounding up pregnant women, forcing them to give birth in prison-like hospitals.
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