Inside the List: Guilt, Jealousy, Empathy: Your Dog Has the Same Emotions You Do
Frans de Waal’s new book, “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves,” debuts on the best-seller list this week at No. 4.
The Shortlist: Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life
Amit Chaudhuri’s narrator wanders Mumbai while João Gilberto Noll’s loses himself in London. And Monique Schwitter’s? She’s adrift among a dozen past loves.
In 'The Chief,' An Enigmatic, Conservative John Roberts Walks A Political Tightrope
Reporter Joan Biskupic portrays the Supreme Court chief justice as a dedicated conservative who now "has the court he's always wanted" — and she says the law "will likely be what he says it is."
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Children’s Books: Gorgeous Books to Expand the Youngest Minds
Dreamy marshmallows, rude animals, a portal to a mirror world and more fill the latest crop of picture books.
New in Paperback: ‘Heavy,’ ‘Do This for Me’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Reconsiderations: From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’
When Kurt Vonnegut was at work on his hugely influential antiwar novel, “he was writing to save his own life,” his daughter said.
Fiction: Using Fiction to Show How Self-Control Becomes Self-Destructive
In their debut novels, Yara Zgheib and Anissa Gray explore the harrowing experience of female eating disorders.
Fiction: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Celebrates His 100th Birthday With a Novel
“Little Boy” recounts his life story in a free association of flashes and arias, of high and low culture — the verbal riffs of a good talker.
'The True Queen' Casts A Pleasant Spell
Zen Cho's followup to her Regency fantasy of manners Sorceror to the Crown builds solidly on the world she's invented, mixing historical froth with real substance.
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A Summer Of Second Chances In 'Small Town Hearts'
Lillie Vale's new young adult novel follows Babe Vogel, who's perfectly happy in her small town life, even though her friends have mostly moved on — until a "summer boy" arrives to complicate things.
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Nonfiction: To Nosh or Not to Nosh: An Immigrant’s Dilemma
In Boris Fishman’s memoir, “Savage Feast,” mealtime is when all the rich and roiling contradictions of his Eastern European Jewish family come into play.
By the Book: Laila Lalami: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “The Other Americans” first read Zora Neale Hurston five years ago: “I was knocked out by her eye for detail.”
Fiction: An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None
In her debut collection, “Invasive Species,” the Egyptian immigrant Marwa Helal plumbs the complications of nationhood and inclusion.
'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey
The depth of Margaret Leslie Davis' research on the tome's history cannot be understated — her writing is straightforward and, at times, heartbreaking, but outstanding reporting lies at the core.
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In 'Horizon,' Considering All That Is Connected
Barry Lopez's new book is a biography and a portrait of some of the world's most delicate places, but at heart it's a contemplation of the belief that the way forward is compassionately, and together.
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Nonfiction: A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’
In “Survival Math,” Mitchell S. Jackson tells his family story of living in Oregon and reckons with the interplay of racism and patriarchy in his own life.
Fiction: A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird.
Kathryn Davis’s novel “The Silk Road” is full of provocative mysteries: Are its characters many or one? Where are they going? Have they witnessed a murder?
Road Trip With 'Zora And Langston' In This Real-Life Literary Adventure
Squeeze into the rumble seat — Yuval Taylor brings readers along on a 1927 summer road trip taken by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Their friendship turned out to be a very bumpy ride.
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