Down and Out and Ripe for an Economist to Study
For his new book, “Extreme Economies,” Richard Davies visited nine struggling places — from a Louisiana prison to the Panamanian rain forest — to glean economic lessons for all of us.
The Harlem Renaissance, as Viewed by Zora Neale Hurston
“Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick” collects 21 stories from throughout her career, including eight that illuminate the Great Migration north.
For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing?
In Meng Jin’s debut novel, “Little Gods,” a teenage immigrant excavates her late mother’s long-buried truths.
A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies
In Scarlett Thomas’s new novel, “Oligarchy,” the skinny girls rule the roost.
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell: The Odd Couple
James Mann’s “The Great Rift” describes the up-and-down relationship of two men who shaped American foreign policy for a generation.
The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous
In “Imperfect Union,” his double biography of John and Jessie Frémont, the NPR host Steve Inskeep brings to life a 19th-century power couple.
Wealth and Fraud in 1920s Florida
Christopher Knowlton’s “Bubble in the Sun” tells a story of quick fortunes made and lost in Florida real estate.
‘Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,’ by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places
A baseball player uses romance novels to help woo his estranged wife, a fake relationship leads to real feelings, and more stories of happily ever after.
Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir, and Elisabeth Egan talks about Group Text, a new monthly feature from the Book Review.
Comic Relief
How one young reader found himself in a different kind of literature.
Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis
“Tightrope,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is a wrenching portrait of rural Yamhill, Ore., Kristof’s hometown and a microcosm for America.
In Praise of Omnivorous Readers
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Looking at Agatha Christie and Feminism
This week, Claire Jarvis reviews a biography of Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill. In 1990, John Mortimer wrote for the Book Review about “Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries,” Gill’s biography of Christie.
New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past?
“Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game,” says the author of “Agency” and other science fiction novels, “if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative.”
Kiley Reid Has Done Her Share of Soul-Searching in Coffee Shops
Meet the debut author behind the first instant best seller of the year.
Where the Wild Ones Go
In Serena Burdick’s new novel, a home for wayward girls looms large.
You’re Not Going to Kill Them With Kindness. You’ll Do Just the Opposite.
Four new books show how being nice — and being on the receiving end of thoughtfulness — will drastically improve life for all involved.
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