The Shortlist: Debut Story Collections Full of Vulnerable People and Their Pain
In three new collections, writers explore the lives of individuals testing the boundaries that separate themselves from other people.
Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s New Novel, Set at a Spa, Features Some Killer Treatments
With “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the “Big Little Lies” author has delivered another ambitious, darkly comic thriller.
Fiction: A Dark New Satire Asks, How Far Would You Go to Become Famous?
A grasping, conniving young writer schemes his way to the top in “A Ladder to the Sky,” John Boyne’s dark satire of literary ambition.
New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection
In “The Lonesome Bodybuilder,” the author and playwright Yukiko Motoya spins imaginative analogies of marital dysfunction.
Inside the List: Those Best-of-the-Year Times Book Lists? They’ve Been Around Awhile
The paper’s “100 Notables” history goes back more than a century.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: commemorating Anne Sexton.
By the Book: Ben Sasse: By the Book
The junior senator from Nebraska and author, most recently, of “Them” says he and his wife would like their children to love books: “We want them to be addicted to reading.”
Fiction: Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues.
Daisy Johnson’s debut novel, “Everything Under,” a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, riffs on timeless myths to document a daughter’s desperate search.
Nonfiction: Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas
Sue Prideaux’s “I Am Dynamite!” and John Kaag’s “Hiking With Nietzsche” offer modern interpretations of a highly controversial thinker.
Nonfiction: A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention
Stephen M. Walt’s “The Hell of Good Intentions” takes a critical look at how Washington has handled international affairs over the last several years.
Nonfiction: The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War
Max Hastings’s “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” condemns all sides for corruption, cynicism and outright cruelty.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others
Louisa Hall’s novel “Trinity” tells the story of the father of the atomic bomb by way of the people who were around him and reacted to him.
Nonfiction: John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist
In “Debussy: A Painter in Sound,” the Stravinsky biographer Stephen Walsh focuses on the music.
Nonfiction: Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic
The pianist Jeremy Denk reviews the biography “Schumann: The Faces and the Masks,” by Judith Chernaik.
Nonfiction: A Brilliant Frédéric Chopin
“Fryderyk Chopin,” a magisterial new biography by Alan Walker, offers fresh insight into the legendary pianist and composer, whose reputation thrived after a life cut short by illness.
Q. & A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Journalist Recalls the Terror (and Boredom) of Being Held Hostage
In “The Desert and the Sea,” Michael Scott Moore recounts his ordeal being held captive by Somali pirates for more than two years.
Like a Boss: Megan Abbott’s Work Diary: ‘My Psychiatrist Notes How Tired I Look, Which Is Great’
The author of nine acclaimed novels, including “Give Me Your Hand” and “Dare Me,” is adapting four (four!) of them for TV.
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