Book Review: ‘When We Cease to Understand the World,’ by Benjamín Labatut
“When We Cease to Understand the World,” by Benjamín Labatut, considers the fine line between the brilliance and darkness of human advancement.
New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Can a Coma Be Contagious?
In “The Sleeping Beauties,” Suzanne O’Sullivan examines those poorly understood conditions that fall at the tangled intersection of body and mind, like mysterious outbreaks of mass illness.
Readers Aren’t Into Sports? The Best-Seller List Says Otherwise.
Basketball and tennis are the subjects of two top titles written by stars in their own fields.
The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift
“My wife gave me the first edition of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ to be published in English (in 1886). That the edition was in translation was just as well, since I don’t read a word of Russian.”
Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO
A selection of books published this week.
The Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political Provocateur
In a revealing new biography, “The Contrarian,” the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel’s ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and beliefs.
Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity
Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.
Anne-Marie Slaughter Explains What She Has Learned From a Long Career of Public Service
Slaughter’s “Renewal” looks at how a personal transformation can lead to broader social change.
In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest novel, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race.
Back to the Future, With Books Instead of a DeLorean
Three new historical novels remind us how what happened in days, and centuries, gone by connects to the world today.
An Irreverent Novel Trains Its Gaze on Refugees and Their Rescuers
“The Wrong End of the Telescope,” by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine, examines the relationship between Middle Eastern refugees and their Western rescuers with clear eyes and trenchant humor.
Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The Body Scout,” “Light From Uncommon Stars” and “No Gods, No Monsters” tell stories of genetic dystopias, musical gifts and mythic creatures.
A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects
In “You Bet Your Life,” Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
Ruth Ozeki’s Borgesian, Zen Buddhist Parable of Consumerism
In “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” the characters are so preoccupied with material possessions that objects come to life all around them.
Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’?
In “Generation Occupy,” Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.
Colson Whitehead on ‘Harlem Shuffle’
Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses “The Magician.”
Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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