Ivory Tower: The Chirps and Ripples in the Universe That Prove Einstein Was Right
Three books on a major recent development in astronomy confirming relativity theory.
Fiction: Misfit Creatures, Otherwise Known as Kids Today
Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” and Jomny Sun’s “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too” star anxious heroes navigating unfamiliar planets.
Editors' Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Essay: Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry
Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.
Essay: How I Rebuilt My Childhood Library, Book by Book
A novelist and new mother recreates her book collection for the next generation.
Essay: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past
Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Barbara Pym
However remote her themes may seem beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip.
Newsbook: Trump Is Afraid We’ll Forget These Men. Should We?
Three books delve into the minds of Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
By the Book: Louise Penny: By the Book
The author of mystery novels, most recently “Glass Houses,” recommends reading her fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood: “And I don’t just say that because the government compels me to.”
Nonfiction: How Chester B. Himes Became the Rage in Harlem, and Beyond
Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography, “Chester B. Himes,” traces the seminal crime novelist’s path from prison to international success.
Nonfiction: A Parent Confronts Conformity in the Classrooms of China
In “Little Soldiers,” Lenora Chu investigates both the roots of the Chinese education system and its effects on children, including her own.
Bookends: Is Free Speech an Absolute Right, or Does Context Matter?
The writers Adam Kirsch and Francine Prose discuss what free speech means in the context of Charlottesville and beyond.
Nonfiction: An Educator Makes the Case That Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up
In “The New Education,” Cathy N. Davidson argues that colleges must do more to adjust to social and economic realities.
Fiction: ‘Motherest’ Wrestles With the Contradictions of Parental Love
The narrator of Kristen Iskandrian’s novel, “Motherest,” hoped college would be an escape from an unhappy home. Now she must make a home for her baby.
The Long View: A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It
Rereading Maya Angelou, Richard Wright and other mid-20th-century writers is to see anew that Appomattox was as much a beginning as an end.
What to Read Before You Head to Botswana
Three books on the land, people and culture of the region.
Fiction: Inside Lizzie Borden’s House of Horror
In her novel, “See What I Have Done,” Sarah Schmidt turns the story of Lizzie Borden and the Fall River murders into a grisly exploration of madness.
Nonfiction: A Pioneering Neuroscientist Reports From ‘the Border of Life and Death’
In “Into the Gray Zone,” the neuroscientist Adrian Owen describes finding signs of consciousness in the brains of vegetative patients.
Nonfiction: In ‘Campus Confidential,’ a Professor Laments That Teaching Is Not the Priority of Teachers
Jacques Berlinerblau, a professor at Georgetown, explains that at colleges and universities, you don’t get what you pay for.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Where Can I Find Brotherhood Through Books?
A brotherless reader seeks the fraternal bond through fictional works starring male siblings with fierce and complex attachments.
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