Children’s Books: Feasts for Young Readers’ Eyes
These gift-worthy books offer kids puzzles to solve, pop-up marvels, surprising facts about pirates and more.
Nonfiction: Creating a Lost World, From the Fossils Out
In “Paleoart,” the art critic Zoë Lescaze tracks the evolving representations of dinosaurs in both fine art and popular culture.
Nonfiction: In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree
In Jacobs’s new book, he tries to organize the largest family reunion ever, all while exploring the territory of genealogy and kinship.
Nonfiction: A Picture Is Worth … How Many Words?
For “Alive in Shape and Color,” the crime novelist Lawrence Block enlisted writers to create stories based on famous artworks.
Remembering President Obama
Peter Baker’s “Obama: The Call of History” is a tribute to a man and an office.
Nonfiction: A Love Affair With Bookstores
In “Bookshops,” Jorge Carrión celebrates the intellectual and social history of bookstores around the world.
Nonfiction: How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It
“The Collector of Lives,” by Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney, traces the life and work of the eminent Renaissance biographer.
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.
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