Nicholas Kristof recommends books about one of the most closed countries on Earth.
In Daniel Alarcón’s “The King Is Always Above the People,” young men in new situations find out who they really are.
Brendan I. Koerner talks about “Megafire” and “Firestorm,” and Henry Fountain discusses “The Great Quake.”
Five books on oceans, hurricanes and the perfect wave.
Histories of modern medicine through the 20th-century proliferations of Spanish flu, tuberculosis and penicillin.
In a new book, “Inheritors of the Earth,” Chris Thomas argues that animals and plants are adapting to the world we are creating. We need not worry.
Amor Towles, whose second novel has spent 46 weeks on the best-seller list, likes to bring vintage mysteries on vacation.
Calvin Trillin reflects on the idioms lost in the age of the smartphone.
For fiction writers, keeping up with technological and political change in their work is a risky proposition. But nowadays it is more essential than ever.
An illustrated history of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s failed attempt to garner the support of the intelligentsia for his impending war.
In “The Only Girl in the World,” Maude Julien describes a series of horrors growing up the daughter of a man who believed he was sculpting her into a superior being.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to reviews in previous issues.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: What will the end of the world look like?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
How the monologuist inspired a best-selling paint. A dog is also involved.
Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine” is a passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction.
In “Windfall,” Meghan O’Sullivan offers a tour of the world and how the rise of cheap gas and fracking are causing shifts in power.
At the beginning of his career, James Rollins, author of ‘The Demon Crown,’ stole Samuel Clemens’s pen name.
In “The Great Quake,” Henry Fountain recounts what we learned from North America’s biggest temblor. In “Quakeland,” Kathryn Miles takes a fault-eye view of the continent.
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