The Shortlist: The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists
Three new books on Vivian Maier, Renoir and Elaine de Kooning explore the personalities and experiences behind the work.
Essay: The Poet of Light
Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
Nonfiction: The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up
Edward L. Ayers’s “The Thin Light of Freedom” presents the War Between the States as experienced by ordinary people.
Nonfiction: What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity?
In “Supernormal,” the psychologist Meg Jay derives lessons from the lives of her troubled patients.
Egos: New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right
Taking on too much and too little are hazards of the form.
Fiction: ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences
In Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s new book, the Hungarian writer pursues the apocalyptic themes and sprawling syntax that have won him a cult following.
Inside the List: A Presidential Fury Propels Wolff Book to No. 1
Donald Trump’s lawyers threatened an injunction against Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” which makes its debut atop the hardcover nonfiction list.
Desolation on the Border
An illustrated response to an anthropologist's urgent, vividly drawn inquiry into the havoc wreaked on human life by America's immigration policy.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Children’s Books: Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World
Love shines out from gorgeous new books by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long, Oliver Jeffers, Nikki Giovanni and Ashley Bryan, and Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
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: Richard Le Gallienne on Ezra Pound.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'The Afterlives' Explores What We'll Do For Another Glimpse Of The Departed
There's nothing quite like the desperation to communicate with loved ones we've lost — and it's that desire that fuels Thomas Pierce's richly imaginative debut novel The Afterlives.
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By the Book: Niall Ferguson: By the Book
The historian, biographer and author talks about the books he reads and re-reads, and the ones he is very happy not to read.
Books of The Times: Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure.
David Frum’s “Trumpocracy” takes aim at the president and those who empower him, and “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, reads at times like a sly subtweet of the Republican Party.
'Winter' Balances Dark Days With Flashes Of Joy And Light
The second volume in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet takes place over a tense family Christmas in Cornwall that reunites two sisters whose lives have taken vastly diverging paths.
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Fiction: An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense
Ruby Namdar’s “The Ruined House,” the winner of Israel’s prestigious Sapir Prize, now appears in English.
Nonfiction: Real Worlds, Possible Worlds and Fantasy Worlds
In “The Origins of Creativity,” E.O. Wilson argues for a different relationship between the humanities and both the practical and theoretical sciences.
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