Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book News: Steinbeck’s Heir Wins Lawsuit
A dispute that dragged on for years, and involved none of the author’s blood relatives, is settled.
Reader's Notebook: Change Is in the Air at the E. B. White Farm
Discovering the author’s home in Maine, where he wrote “Charlotte’s Web” and heard those darn crickets.
Nonfiction: What the Greek Myths Teach Us About Anger in Troubled Times
In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.
By the Book: Nicole Krauss: By the Book
The author of “Great House,” “The History of Love” and, most recently, “Forest Dark” prefers to read classic novels on the plane: “Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book.”
John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt
George Smiley returns in this coda to le Carré’s classic, “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
Book News: Boys Puberty Book is Pulped After Aging Badly
A passage about breasts in “Growing Up for Boys” leads to some awkward conversations for a British publisher.
Nonfiction: In Praise of the Black Men and Women Who Built Detroit
In ‘Black Detroit,’ Herb Boyd celebrates the city’s rich history through its unsung heroes.
Nonfiction: Mikhail Gorbachev Brought Democracy to Russia and Was Despised for It
William Taubman’s definitive new biography, “Gorbachev,” describes a leader who was celebrated abroad, reviled at home.
Otherworldly: The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Novels, graphic and otherwise, about the world at war, life with no future and imagined universes.
Life in a Police State, Through the Searing Story of a Refugee’s Disappearance
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.
Fiction: ‘A Kind of Freedom’ Follows Three Generations of a Black Family in New Orleans
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s luminous debut novel has the disenchanting optimism of the blues.
Children’s Books: Picture Books That Remind Children — and Grown-Ups — What Real-Life Friendship Looks Like
For real, true friends, there are sweet spots, rough spots and true connection — beyond clicks and tweets.
Fiction: ‘Class Mom’ Casts a Satirical Lens on So-Called Perfect Parents
Laurie Gelman’s debut novel, “Class Mom,” is told from the comically cynical point of view of a former ’90s wild child turned suburban mother.
Nonfiction: Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree
Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” argues that alternative facts are baked into the American character.
Children’s Books: A Talking Tree, 200 Years Old and Fed Up With Intolerance
In her new novel, “Wishtree,” Katherine Applegate channels the natural world to take on prejudice against immigrants.
On the Road in Germany, Accompanied by Troubling Memories
Alison Moore’s novel “The Lighthouse” follows a lonely British hiker on an increasingly precarious trek through the German countryside.
Fiction: In ‘Careers for Women,’ the Plot Twists Around the World Trade Center
Joanna Scott’s “Careers for Women,” featuring a Port Authority publicist in midcentury Manhattan, serves up a vice-ridden narrative with white-glove service.
Chelsea Manning Headlines New Yorker Festival
The event, from Oct. 6 to 8, will also include interviews with Preet Bharara, Seth Meyers and Glenn Close.
The Book Review Podcast: An American Abroad
Suzy Hansen discusses “Notes on a Foreign Country,” and David Thomson talks about “Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio.”
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