Otherworldly: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Amal El-Mohtar looks at new retellings of ancient tales, including a space opera, a futuristic “King Lear,” and an eco-thriller.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal.
Sloane Crosley’s third collection, “Look Alive Out There,” blends deep pathos with the author’s signature humor.
Q&A: Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature
One’s the U.S. poet laureate. The other is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Can they bring literature to the masses?
Read The Times’s Reviews of Every Book That Won a 2018 Pulitzer
Besides the journalism prizes, the committee awarded five Pulitzers to books this week. Here are our reviews.
Fiction: A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax?
In his funny, bighearted new novel, “Anatomy of a Miracle,” Jonathan Miles skewers faith, fame and what the truth means to different people.
Nonfiction: In ‘The Woman’s Hour,’ the Battle Over the 19th Amendment Comes to Life
The deliciousness of the details in Elaine Weiss’s new book suggests that certain historical figures warrant entire novels of their own.
Fiction: For These Characters, Foreign Cultures Are Just Another Consumer Good
The globe-trotting cosmopolitans in Michelle de Kretser’s satirical new novel, “The Life to Come,” make a fetish of travel and prepare exotic meals with an eye to Instagram.
Nonfiction: Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders
In “The Recovering,” the novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison explores her own alcoholism and the struggle to make art out of giving up drinking.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters
In “Maker of Patterns,” the renowned physicist presents his correspondence, revealing observations about the great minds of the 20th century.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters
Fiction that runs the gamut from horror and fantasy to science fiction and mystery, all told from a nonwhite perspective.
Fiction: Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
Children’s Books: Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People
Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander, Juan Felipe Herrera and Naomi Shihab Nye write unforgettable verse about love, loss and the pain and joy of growing up.
The Book Review Podcast: Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens
Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”
An Illustrated Tribute to ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’
Sergio García Sánchez reimagines the 19th-century tale of a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.
Nonfiction: The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats
Susan Ronald’s “A Dangerous Woman” is an energetic biography of Florence Gould and a terrific window into the life of the superaffluent.
Nonfiction: Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan” depicts the complicated politics and colorful cast of statesmen, spies and economists behind America’s intervention in midcentury Europe.
Nonfiction: A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
Ben Austen’s “High-Risers” assesses the dire consequences of segregated low-income residential developments across the nation.
The Shortlist: How Endangered Is American Democracy?
Four new books discuss current threats to our political system.
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