Nonfiction: When Growing Old Is a Blessing
John Leland’s book “Happiness Is a Choice You Make” chronicles the unlikely virtues of aging.
Children’s Books: New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts
In books by Dhonielle Clayton, Tomi Adeyemi and others, teenagers from around the globe are inventive, romantic and above all empowered.
Fiction: Young and Adrift in New York City
Hermione Hoby’s first novel, “Neon in Daylight,” offers a fresh take on the romance of urban life.
Nonfiction: Getting Better All the Time?
In “It’s Better Than It Looks,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the case for optimism in a time of troubles.
Crime: Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries
Crime novels by Jane Harper, Robin Oliveira, Christobel Kent and Steve Cavanagh probe the fate of women and girls: some just gone, some gone for good.
Nonfiction: Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full
In “Enlightenment Now,” the Harvard professor offers much evidence that the world, our feelings notwithstanding, is definitely getting better.
Fiction: A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse
“The Invention of Ana,” a novel by Mikkel Rosengaard, hinges on an ambiguous mentorship and the history of the Romanian revolution.
Nonfiction: She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D.
In her memoir, “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her extraordinary journey from her survivalist family in Idaho to the lecture halls of the Ivy League.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Siblings On A Strange Journey In 'Monster Portraits'
Sofia Samatar teams up with her brother Del, a tattoo artist, to create a new take on the fantastic bestiary. The result is a prose poem with jolts of autobiography, spiced with intricate drawings.
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Nonfiction: The Battle Over What It Means to Be American
In “Political Tribes,” Amy Chua assesses the growing trend toward zero-sum group competition.
By the Book: Ian Buruma: By the Book
Ian Buruma, whose new book is the memoir “A Tokyo Romance,” prefers villains to heroes: “It is hard to write about a good person without making him or her look like a bore.”
2 Decades In The Making, 'Green Sun' Is Worth The Wait
Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's Night Dogs, and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland — bad attitude entirely intact.
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Books of The Times: Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans.
In “Enlightenment Now,” the psychologist continues his argument that conditions are improving for the species as a whole.
Nonfiction: In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump
“But the deep subject of this book, what holds its disparate bits together, is not celebrity. It’s professionalism,” A.O. Scott writes.
Essay: When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author
Jane Kamensky published a biography of John Singleton Copley. Then she got a tattoo of his art.
Medicine Can Soothe a Troubled Mind, but Not Without Costs
In “Blue Dreams,” the psychologist Lauren Slater explores the intersection of personality and chemistry by way of her own history with antidepressants.
More Than Just Nostalgia, 'Time Pieces' Is A Multilayered Memoir Of Dublin
Irish writer John Banville's new book is a shimmering, frequently elusive book about a city, but also an inquiry into memory, shifting attention, and above all time as it passes and becomes the past.
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Nonfiction: Bringing Down a Media Empire
In “Conspiracy,” Ryan Holiday describes the blockbuster case that killed Gawker.
Nonfiction: A Different Perspective on the Border
In his memoir, “The Line Becomes a River,” Francisco Cantú argues that understanding immigration required him to be a Border Patrol agent.
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