Nonfiction: What a Survivor of Auschwitz Learned From the Trauma of Others
In her memoir “The Choice,” the therapist Edith Eva Eger traces her path to emotional healing alongside her patients.
Children's Books: Bullies, Ghosts and Creepy Dolls
An abandoned orphanage, a troubled girl, a nighttime thump: Beware, gentler readers. Pam Smy’s “Thornhill” is for kids — and adults — who like to be scared.
Children's Books: Frightfully Good New Picture Books to Give Kids the Shivers, or the Giggles
A mysterious girl who lives in the forest, a swamp creature raised by humans, an otherworldly pair of undies and more in this autumn’s eeriest tales.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Larry McMurtry on his Pulitzer prize-winning novel “Lonesome Dove.”
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: 3 Books on Guns in America
Days after a mass shooting in Las Vegas left 59 dead, books that ponder the gun control debate and effects of these tragedies.
Books News: Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The British author’s best sellers include “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go.”
'Dunbar' Is A Moving, Brutal And Apt Update Of 'King Lear'
For centuries, Shakespeare's tragedy was too painful for audiences; it was performed with an altered happy ending. But Edward St. Aubyn has never flinched at inflicting pain on his readers.
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The Story Of 'Manhattan Beach' Lives In Its Details
Jennifer Egan's new novel, set in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, is full of deeply researched period detail and rich, memorable characters — though their motivations don't always add up.
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By the Book: Roz Chast: By the Book
The author of, most recently, “Going Into Town,” enjoys listening to audiobooks while working on a craft project like embroidering: “My idea of a really good time.”
Light Reading: Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly
Last year the Nobel committee shocked folks around the world with its selection for the literature prize — most notably the awardee himself.
'Tenements, Towers & Trash' Brings Clean Lines To The City Of Failure
Julia Wertz's loving, obsessively detailed visual history of the less-distinguished corners of New York City celebrates charming flops, long-gone businesses and dusty corners where dreams go to die.
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'Greater Gotham' Is A Great Big Book For A Great Big City
The second volume in Mike Wallace's Pulitzer-winning history of New York City weighs in at over six pounds — and every ounce is packed with fascinating detail about the city that never sleeps.
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Nonfiction: 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations
Kevin Peraino’s “A Force So Swift” recounts a turning point that continues to haunt Washington and Beijing.
Poetry: Five Decades of Frank Bidart’s Verse, From Masks to Self-Mythology
The collected poems in “Half-Light,” long-listed for the National Book Award, let readers trace the evolution of a sophisticated modern master.
Nonfiction: Learning About Women’s Lives Through the Food They Consumed
In “What She Ate,” Laura Shapiro offers biographical portraits of six notable women and their diets, including Helen Gurley Brown and Eva Braun.
Jeffrey Eugenides' 'Fresh Complaint' Makes For Absorbing Fiction
While they tend towards traditional rather than edgy, the stories in Fresh Complaint will remind readers what they like about Eugenides' writing: His sensitivity and compassion for flawed people.
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'Mental,' 'Gorilla And The Bird': Two Starkly Different Accounts Of Bipolar Disorder
Both books vividly capture the dizzying highs of mania and the shattering lows of depression that mark the disease. Mental's approach is comprehensive, Gorilla and the Bird's more intimate.
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Nonfiction: In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises
In her new book, Gessen, a journalist and longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, recounts the experiences of seven people living in post-Communist Russia.
Fiction: In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront
A missing father, an underworld boss and a female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yards anchor the Pulitzer winner’s first novel since “A Visit From the Goon Squad.”
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