William Maxwell Found the Depth in Modest Places
A.O. Scott talks about the novelist and story writer, and Eyal Press discusses “Dirty Work.”
Finding Your Own Way With Words, and Images
8 new picture books explore the many different paths to fall learning.
Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer
New fiction about Korean immigrants in America, 1960s New York housewives and aging butterfly collectors exploring the world one last time.
Before She Loved Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir Loved Zaza
With “Inseparable,” a novel she wrote in 1954 and which is now being published for the first time, the celebrated French philosopher recounts, in fictional guise, her relationship with Élisabeth Lacoin (“Zaza”), a beloved schoolmate who died tragically young.
Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What Was on the Best-Seller List 20 Years Ago?
A peek into the archives reveals that popular books from early September 2001 were both prescient and timeless.
Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies
“I have a soft spot for books by tough, radically honest women with an uncommon antenna for magic, language and landscape.”
Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
These Books Remind Us Why Parenting Is a Verb
Raising a human being requires work, energy, love — and, occasionally, advice. You’ll find sensible guidance in these books.
Book Review: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,’ by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
In “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, history is everything — an inheritance of secrets, lies, talents, betrayals, ambition, accomplishment and possibility.
There’s Something Fishy About This Refuge in the Colorado Wilds
“The Guide,” by Peter Heller, evokes a near future in which coronavirus variants have pushed America’s leisure class to the great outdoors.
A Supreme Court That Has Gone Wrong
Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Presumed Guilty” details the many ways the Supreme Court has favored the police over the accused.
How Can Colleges Handle Sexual Misconduct Cases More Fairly?
In “Sexual Justice,” Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights lawyer, homes in on the processes by which such cases are typically adjudicated — and how to improve them.
Kat Chow on How Mourning Is Like Taxidermy
In her memoir “Seeing Ghosts,” the author recounts her mother’s death and her immigrant family’s numerous migrations, separations and losses, evoking the way grief entails a particular, perpetual sorrow.
Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures
“After the Sun,” a collection by the Danish writer Jonas Eika, stretches past the limits of the ordinary.
The Fate of the Self in the Age of Clicks
In “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” the essayist and cultural critic Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how our conception of the human mind has been shaped by our tech-driven era — and what such a view leaves out.
When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who debated the origins of the universe.
The Worldwide Effort to Bar Chinese Immigration
Mai Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today.
In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life
Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary.
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