Fiction: Young and Adrift in New York City
Hermione Hoby’s first novel, “Neon in Daylight,” offers a fresh take on the romance of urban life.
Nonfiction: Getting Better All the Time?
In “It’s Better Than It Looks,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the case for optimism in a time of troubles.
Crime: Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries
Crime novels by Jane Harper, Robin Oliveira, Christobel Kent and Steve Cavanagh probe the fate of women and girls: some just gone, some gone for good.
Nonfiction: Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full
In “Enlightenment Now,” the Harvard professor offers much evidence that the world, our feelings notwithstanding, is definitely getting better.
Fiction: A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse
“The Invention of Ana,” a novel by Mikkel Rosengaard, hinges on an ambiguous mentorship and the history of the Romanian revolution.
Nonfiction: She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D.
In her memoir, “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her extraordinary journey from her survivalist family in Idaho to the lecture halls of the Ivy League.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Battle Over What It Means to Be American
In “Political Tribes,” Amy Chua assesses the growing trend toward zero-sum group competition.
By the Book: Ian Buruma: By the Book
Ian Buruma, whose new book is the memoir “A Tokyo Romance,” prefers villains to heroes: “It is hard to write about a good person without making him or her look like a bore.”
Books of The Times: Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans.
In “Enlightenment Now,” the psychologist continues his argument that conditions are improving for the species as a whole.
Nonfiction: In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump
“But the deep subject of this book, what holds its disparate bits together, is not celebrity. It’s professionalism,” A.O. Scott writes.
Essay: When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author
Jane Kamensky published a biography of John Singleton Copley. Then she got a tattoo of his art.
Medicine Can Soothe a Troubled Mind, but Not Without Costs
In “Blue Dreams,” the psychologist Lauren Slater explores the intersection of personality and chemistry by way of her own history with antidepressants.
Nonfiction: Bringing Down a Media Empire
In “Conspiracy,” Ryan Holiday describes the blockbuster case that killed Gawker.
Nonfiction: A Different Perspective on the Border
In his memoir, “The Line Becomes a River,” Francisco Cantú argues that understanding immigration required him to be a Border Patrol agent.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Upends the Myth of Apollo and Daphne
“Daphne,” by Will Boast, poses the universal human question of whether it is better to feel pain or to feel nothing at all.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Seeking Literary Page-Turners
Novels with complex themes and elevated writing styles that are still accessible to even novice readers.
How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters
In “A Tokyo Romance,” the historian and editor Ian Buruma recalls a vivid and influential Japanese sojourn in his early 20s.
Fiction: In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices
Akwaeke Emezi’s “Freshwater” is a poetic and disturbing exploration of dissociative identity disorder, of the voices “roaring inside the marble room” of a young woman’s mind.
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