Nonfiction: The Good Kind of Schmaltz
Eddy Portnoy’s “Bad Rabbi” explores the vengeful lovers, demented blackmailers and unscrupulous abortionists of the Yiddish tabloid press.
Nonfiction: Weird Christmas
In “Christmas: A Biography,” Judith Flanders has unearthed a strange and varied history that includes taxes, demons and goat skeletons.
Nonfiction: A New Bible for Obsessive Fans of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
In “Slayers & Vampires,” Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman revisit the gory days of “Buffy” and “Angel.”
Nonfiction: Troubled Jewel in the Crown
William Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s book about the history of the Koh-i-Noor, which lies in the Tower of London, highlights a sordid past.
Nonfiction: A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road
“Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters,” edited by Adam Sisman, sparkles with the charm that made Fermor such a welcome guest and bedmate.
The Shortlist: Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Seen Inside and Out
Four books capture the royalty of the silver screen.
Art Books: A Decade of Power, in Photographs
“Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016” collects images of influence from all corners of contemporary culture.
On Poetry: When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young
Children, unlike their parents, tend to embrace verse with fierce and unembarrassed joy.
Nonfiction: Why Are Jews Funny?
Jeremy Dauber’s “Jewish Comedy” looks at laughter across more than 2,000 years.
Nonfiction: Dramatic Reading: A Memoir by the Director of ‘The History Boys’
In “Balancing Acts,” Nicholas Hytner remembers his time at the National Theatre in London.
Fiction: A Rich Novel That Reveals Itself Through Linked Lives
Kamila Shamsie reviews “Improvement,” by Joan Silber, a novel depicting a world that is small and capacious at once.
Fiction: Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos
“The Green Hand,” a collection of Nicole Claveloux’s work, shows off her darkly humorous, existential and erotic style.
Art Books: Julia Child, Seen Through Her Husband’s Lens
“France Is a Feast” collects 225 photographs taken by Paul Child in the years after World War II, as he and his wife explored their adopted country.
Nonfiction: In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker
Dylan Jones’s “David Bowie: A Life” captures its subject’s radically plastic persona, his capacity to accommodate any identity at will.
Nonfiction: Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction
David Ives reviews “Keeping On Keeping On,” a collection of journalism, diary entries and play prefaces.
Art Books: What Could Have Been Iconic
“Unseen,” by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns, collects images from black history that were never published by The Times.
Nonfiction: Rolling Merrily Along With Hal Prince
In his new memoir, “Sense of Occasion,” Hal Prince reports on his many hits, and also his failures.
Nonfiction: Yellowstone’s Most Famous Wolf Gets Her Own Book
In “American Wolf,” Nate Blakeslee chronicles the survival of O-Six and her home’s complex ecosystem.
Art Books: A Decade in Book Design
“Chip Kidd: Book Two” revisits the graphic artist’s influence on the literary canon of late, both inside and out.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to reviews from recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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