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A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
At first glance, Robert Harris’s new novel, “The Second Sleep,” appears to be set in 15th-century Britain. Then things get tricky.
A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan.
An excerpt from “The Siberian Dilemma,” by Martin Cruz Smith
Three new visual books reveal dancers past and present in intimate moments.
“Light Break” and “The Sound I Saw” capture the full scope of the 20th-Century Harlem photographer’s career.
Two new art books explore our corporeal selves in vivid detail.
Season 3 has finally arrived. Here’s some supplemental reading.
Nicholas Buccola talks about “The Fire Is Upon Us,” and Saeed Jones discusses “How We Fight for Our Lives.”
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
It took eight years, but the author of “The Night Circus” is back, and she has another bestseller.
Rob Kapilow’s “Listening for America” explains how to distinguish good from bad in the Great American Songbook.
Guillermo del Toro and his co-writer, Cornelia Funke, stay faithful to the script, but ramp up the bleakness in this tale of a princess living through a brutal war.
In Thanhha Lai’s “Butterfly Yellow,” a Vietnamese refugee finds the brother taken from her family as a toddler. Much more than just time separates them.
Jeanine Basinger’s “The Movie Musical!” is an encyclopedic tribute to musicals past and present.
In Andy Warhol’s diaries, first published 30 years ago, the legendary bon vivant kept meticulous track of cab fare.
In “Novel Houses,” Christina Hardyment conducts tours of 20 famous fictional dwellings and the real places that inspired their creators.
In 1958, Langston Hughes wrote for The Times about “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin’s 1955 collection of essays meditating on race in America and Europe.
Deirdre Bair’s memoir, “Parisian Lives,” takes readers behind the scenes as, early in her career, she grapples with two towering literary figures.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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