By the Book: Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book
The author of the six-volume autobiographical novel “My Struggle” and, most recently, “Autumn” steers clear of crime fiction: “I only read crime novels when I’m depressed, so I try to avoid them.”
Nonfiction: Ellen Ullman’s New Book Tackles Tech’s Woman Problem
The pioneering programmer discusses her career and the dangers the internet poses to culture, privacy and civility in “Life in Code.”
Crime: Crime Fiction: Sue Grafton Nears the End of Her Alphabet Mysteries
Kinsey Millhone makes one of her last crime column appearances. Elsewhere, we meet rough limo drivers, inept Laotian athletes and a wry L.A. coroner.
Sketchbook / Graphic Review: Jillian Tamaki on ‘The Sky Is Falling’
Jillian Tamaki revisits “The Sky Is Falling,” the children’s classic about British children evacuated to Canada during World War II.
Fiction: A Postmodern Buddy-Cop Novel Sends Up the World of Semiotics
Laurent Binet’s “The Seventh Function of Language” turns the story of the death of Roland Barthes into a romp through the days when literary theory reigned.
Nonfiction: A Family Memoir Makes the Case That Autism Is Different, Not Less
Judith Newman’s “To Siri With Love,” about life with an autistic son, is both riotous and moving.
Nonfiction: How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won
In “Democracy in Chains,” Nancy MacLean digs into the work of the economist James McGill Buchanan, who paved the way for our current political moment.
Fiction: An Art World Mystery Wrapped in the Story of a Young Woman Coming Unglued
Lucy Ives’s “Impossible Views of the World” is a fictional work about a disappearance in the art community.
Nonfiction: An Intellectual Historian Argues His Case Against Identity Politics
In his slim polemic “The Once and Future Liberal,” Mark Lilla urges the left to overcome its differences.
Match Book: Desperately Seeking Love Stories With a Temporal Twist
A reader desires romance — dazzling, literary, unsettled by time. Our columnist responds with titles by John Fowles, Italo Calvino, A. S. Byatt and others.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Charlottesville
In light of the deadly violence during a white supremacist rally in Virginia this weekend, here are books to help you discuss racism and anti-Semitism at home.
Nonfiction: The Curious Conundrum of Freud’s Persistent Influence
“Freud,” a critical biography by Frederick Crews, asks why the creator of a scientifically delegitimized blueprint of the mind still carries so much sway.
Fiction: In Delhi or America, the Men in These Stories Behave Badly
Akhil Sharma’s story collection, “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” is a cultural exposé and a lacerating critique of a certain type of male ego.
Nonfiction: How the Lincoln-Douglas Rivalry Defined a Nation
In “Wrestling With His Angel,” the second volume of his biography of Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Blumenthal tells of Lincoln’s circuitous journey to Republican embrace.
The Book Review Podcast: New Books About Parenting
Judith Newman discusses a recent crop of books about parenting, and Bill Goldstein talks about “The World Broke in Two.”
Open Book: Desperate Times Call for Old Measures
In his new book, Jeff Flake says he was inspired by Barry Goldwater’s “The Conscience of a Conservative.” But are Goldwater’s truths all that timeless — or even useful?
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Attacked on All Sides, an Anti-Trump Manifesto Prevails on the Best-Seller List
Jeff Flake’s “Conscience of a Conservative” pays homage to Barry Goldwater, whose 1960 book of the same title was a best seller for 31 weeks.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to unmentioned influences, democracy in peril and more.
Poetry: Marianne Moore’s Poetry, the Way She Intended It
Moore’s “New Collected Poems,” edited by Heather Cass White, does justice to one of the 20th century’s most singular poets.
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