By the Book: Calvin Trillin: By the Book
The humorist, memoirist and journalist likes the way H.L. Mencken expressed himself, for instance in his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
Books of The Times: Hunted at the Zoo in ‘Fierce Kingdom’
When a mundane setting turns lethal, a mother and her 4-year-old son find themselves becoming prey in Gin Phillips’s new thriller.
Open Book: Going After Big Prey
“Shark Drunk” is about two friends in search of a Greenland shark, which can grow up to 24 feet long and weigh up to 2,500 pounds.
Nonfiction: Two Testimonials Shed Light on Syrian Life and Death
Alia Malek’s “The Home That Was Our Country” and Wendy Pearlman’s “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled” channel voices from Syria’s war zone.
Nonfiction: A Polish Poet Leaves Verse Behind, but Not His Lost City
Whatever the prose in “Slight Exaggeration” settles on — art, family, war, ideology — Adam Zagajewski is always writing about displacement.
Nonfiction: The Birth of the Modern Middle East
In “The Islamic Enlightenment,” Christopher de Ballaigue reveals the Middle Eastern political and intellectual figures who grappled with modernity after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798.
Fiction: A First Novel, Wrestling With the Will to Rule the Mat
Gabe Habash’s debut, “Stephen Florida,” tracks the title character’s drive to succeed as a college wrestler.
Fiction: A Novel Looks Back at a Woman’s Idealistic Days in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War casts its shadow over an elderly 21st-century American and her granddaughter in Mary Gordon’s novel “There Your Heart Lies.”
Nonfiction: How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House
Joshua Green’s “Devil’s Bargain” tells the story of the alt-right impresario who invigorated Trump’s campaign and influences his presidency.
Nonfiction: You May Not Know His Name, but You’ve Seen His Pictures of Sarah Bernhardt
In “The Great Nadar,” Adam Begley recounts the life story of a French photographer who had an antic personality and a gift for self-promotion.
Nonfiction: The Campaigns, Causes and Controversies of Five American Radicals
A century ago, Jeremy McCarter’s “young radicals” embraced reform from labor struggles to women’s suffrage to the antiwar effort.
Fiction: This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’
“The Changeling,” by Victor LaValle, is a dark fairy tale of a father’s frantic quest through New York City.
Nonfiction: Roxane Gay on the Traumas of the Body
At its simplest, the memoir “Hunger” is about being overweight in a fat-phobic world. But it’s much more besides.
Audiobooks: What (Books) to Listen to This Summer
The Times’s book critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review recommend some great audiobooks for summertime.
Open Book: Star-Struck
Julie Klam’s new book is a mostly lighthearted and far-ranging look at our obsession with celebrities.
The Book Review Podcast: The World of Jane Austen Fans
Deborah Yaffe talks about “Among the Janeites,” and Robert Ferguson discusses “Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North.”
Inside the List: Imagining the Love Between a Master Hacker and a Fed
The veteran romance writer Julie Garwood turns to computer crime in her latest novel, “Wired,” new on the hardcover fiction list at No. 7.
Children’s Books: Big Concepts for Little Minds
Five new books for babies and newly independent readers illustrate the philosophical and the existential.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Don Winslow’s By the Book, Miranda Seymour’s review of Mary Thorp’s diary and more.
Children’s Books: Two New Novels Evoke the Past and the Future of Fantasy Stories
A.F. Harrold’s “The Song From Somewhere Else” and James Nicol’s “The Apprentice Witch” play with world-building for middle-grade readers.
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