Newsbook: 3 Books Explain Why the Supreme Court’s Stance on Gerrymandering Matters
It’s an issue of race, power and politics.
Fiction: Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost?
Rebecca Makkai’s novel “The Great Believers” ricochets between an era when AIDS was a death sentence and the present, when its shadow still looms.
Nonfiction: Must Science Conflict With Spirituality?
The astrophysicist and novelist Alan Lightman doesn’t think so. And his new book, “Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine,” explains why.
The Book Review Podcast: The Life of Atticus Finch
On this week’s podcast, Joseph Crespino talks about “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” and Philip Dray discusses “The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America.”
Nonfiction: Falling Crime Rates Are Good — at a Cost. A Writer Sees Both Sides.
In “Uneasy Peace,” Patrick Sharkey sees disparities when the homicide rate drops. The country is safer, but some people are now afraid of the police.
Children’s Books: Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books
Affecting stories by the Fan Brothers, Dan Santat and Minh Le, and more celebrate the bonds between grandparents and grandkids.
Nonfiction: Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned?
Patricia O’Toole’s “The Moralist” is the latest biography of Wilson, who has inspired fierce arguments ever since his death in 1924.
Otherworldly: Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers
They may be action-packed page turners — but these books also ask readers to consider very real social issues.
Inside the List: ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ First Published in 2000, Tops the List Again
Demand for Anthony Bourdain’s memoir has soared since his death.
Nonfiction: How Hunting Became a Macho Sport
“The Fair Chase,” Philip Dray’s illuminating history, recounts the evolution of American hunting from frontier vocation to competitive pastime.
Crime: Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column
The deep woods and the drawing rooms of London are crime scenes in Marilyn Stasio’s column. Also two villages, one in France and the other in England.
Paperback row: New in Paperback: ‘The Book That Changed America,’ ‘Manhattan Beach’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Visual Verse: Terrance Hayes Spins Poems Into Pictures
The National Book Award-winning poet creates a graphic “verse” in response to the sociopolitical conundrums he tackles in his new book.
The Shortlist: Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective
These four masterly collections migrate from a plant nursery in Maine to a Buddhist temple in Japan, pursuing unlikely connections and flashes of enlightenment.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot
Joseph O’Neill’s story collection, “Good Trouble,” features characters unlikely to be on the receiving end of a warmhearted learning experience.
Fiction: Two Writers Haunted by Their Caribbean Past
In his novel “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” Caryl Phillips uses the difficult, lonely life of Jean Rhys to explore themes of alienation and exile.
Fiction: This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting.
Rebekah Frumkin’s debut, “The Comedown,” is the drugs-and-crime tragedy of two Cleveland clans discovering the fluidity of life and of the self.
Making the Language Strange, as Only Poetry Can Do
In her collection “Yeah No,” Jane Gregory adopts an otherworldly voice like a medium channeling signals from the great elsewhere.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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