Working from a man’s perspective allowed me to wriggle free of certain expectations.
Ward discusses her new novel; David Dobbs on five new books about Darwin; and Kristin Cashore talks about “Jane, Unlimited.”
The author’s early draft of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” featured a black protagonist who gets trapped inside a chocolate mold. Was it racial stereotyping, or something more complicated?
After a performing career that included eight years with New York City Ballet, Ms. Horosko wrote books and championed the health and other needs of dancers.
Jesmyn Ward’s follow-up to “Salvage the Bones” tells the story of a woman intent on making her fractured family whole again.
Sarah Sentilles’s “Draw Your Weapons” ranges widely through issues of photographic representation, theology, empathy, activism and pacifism.
The NBC reporter, who has a best-selling campaign book with “Unbelievable,” says that the president’s scorn has “revitalized the fourth estate.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Four books about the mechanics of decision making.
A new run of “Forever” stamps will feature scenes from Ezra Jack Keats’s classic children’s tale.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In “Bones,” by Joe Tone, the divergent lives of two brothers — a bricklayer in Texas and a cartel boss in Mexico — converge on the racetrack.
In his memoir “Thanks, Obama,” the speechwriter David Litt recalls coming of age at the White House.
The author of “Gilead” and “Housekeeping” reflects on Emily Dickinson, expanding the mind and writing into the unknown.
Readers respond to Greek myths, a cover illustration and more.
The 1917 novel from the British travel writer uses landscape as character.
Stanley Elkin’s “The Dick Gibson Show,” about a talk-radio host, is a landslide of language, offering gags, wordplay and flights of fancy, sexual and otherwise.
“The Infidel and the Professor” illuminates the deep bond between the father of economics, an establishment man, and the radical skeptic David Hume.
“The Internationalists,” by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, argues that a 1928 pact was the beginning of the end of war.
Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s chief business officer, delivers a lively, if biased, history of the video-sharing platform’s most noteworthy success stories.
The author of, most recently, “Little Fires Everywhere,” often returns to “The Count of Monte Cristo”: “Right now, I see it as an exploration of the complexities of good and evil and how easily one shifts into the other.”
Lauren Markham’s impeccably timed and intimately reported book follows twin teenage brothers on their journey from El Salvador to California.
From conquistadores to modern cultural enclaves, these books trace the centuries-long Latino experience in the United States.
Mr. Robinson brought Harry Potter to American readers, among many other highlights in a career also defined by efforts to increase literacy and improve education.
One of her rules of journalism was, “Do not call attention to yourself.” Yet she did just that in a memoir about her long affair with her celebrated editor.
According to a new autobiography, “Coming to My Senses,” it all began with a year in Paris and a taste for the food she discovered there.
Should you buy this book? The answer probably depends on how you feel about science, celebrity and tomatoes.
Patience Gray exerted an outsize influence on the culinary world, as Adam Federman’s biography “Fasting and Feasting” makes clear.
To write “Nomadland,” Jessica Bruder spent three years traveling and working alongside grandparents and others living in school buses and vans seeking seasonal work.
The three grants for print and digital publications, designed to “ignite growth,” will total up to $120,000.
Following in the footsteps of his older brother, the best-selling novelist John Green, Hank Green will publish his first novel with Dutton.
Writers from across the political spectrum on Mrs. Clinton’s new book reflecting on her failed bid for the presidency.
In “Reset,” the Silicon Valley executive and former venture capitalist explains how she came to question the culture of the tech industry.
From natural disaster to wild beasts and warfare, tragedies factual and fictional so vivid that they’ll strike terror in the heart of any reader.
The disgraced TV host is still churning out history books, but without his perch at Fox, can he sell them?
In “An Odyssey,” Daniel Mendelsohn recounts what happened when his 81-year-old father enrolled in one of his classes at Bard College.
Darwin’s theory of aesthetics may be the sexiest, most dangerous idea in evolution.
These three books explore Jewish culture and how it has evolved since the Holocaust.
In “Survivor Café,” Elizabeth Rosner writes about how we recognize and cope with the traumas that directly affected previous generations.
The Rev. James Martin’s latest book calls for a dialogue with L.G.B.T. Catholics. His critics called him everything from “heretic” to “pansified.”
The former presidential candidate and the politically active actress discuss the hurt of the 2016 election and how they are both moving on.
A federal judge has ruled that “Who’s Holiday!” doesn’t violate the copyright of the Dr. Seuss classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
An aerospace consultant, advice columnist, blogger and best-selling author. (And maybe the first to write a novel on a word-processor.)
Jill Abramson discusses Katy Tur’s new memoir, “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.”
Every body of work comes to an end. And judging by recent late-career achievements, the best is sometimes saved for last.
“Paperbacks from Hell” collects hundreds of memorable horror-fiction cover designs.
Nominees include Jennifer Egan, Lisa Ko, David Grann, Kevin Young and Alarcón.
Mr. Dahl’s agent thought it would be a bad idea to have a black main character, his widow and his biographer said in an interview with the BBC.
Natasha Pulley’s rambunctious historical novel “The Bedlam Stacks” sends a British adventurer on a magic realist mission to South America.
In her best-selling new memoir, “Coming to My Senses,” the chef recommends a French mountain cheese and homemade sauerkraut for a childhood staple.
“The Golden House” tells the story of a billionaire patriarch and his enigmatic family after they arrive in New York.
The second installment of Paul Kingsnorth’s trilogy, which began with “The Wake,” follows one man’s quest for a creature and a purpose.
Books on the golden age of journalism, the brave new world of internet pornography and driving for Uber.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In her memoir “Among the Living and the Dead,” Inara Verzemnieks learns what happened to her family in World War II.
Three explorations of culture as it affects what it means to be a woman.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Salman Rushdie on importance of “global dialogue.”
Readers respond to the value of higher education, a conversation among spies and more.
Can fiction be ordered on demand?
Here’s a list of essential reading — just in time for the new Ken Burns documentary — on the conflict that divided America.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
I might define myself as an American writer, but to others I will always be an Indian-American writer.
Whether it’s the United Nations General Assembly or tourists flocking to it, New York remains a world capital. A few new books explain why.
Douglas Brinkley on the writer whose fiction has captured the boom city’s relentless appetite for growth.
The author, whose picaresque masterwork “The Ginger Man” has sold more than 45 million copies, died on Monday at 91.
“The Strange Death of Europe,” by Douglas Murray, and “The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe,” by Rita Chin, examine divisive debates over Western values.
The author of, most recently, “Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir,” doesn’t like to read short story collections, “especially if they’re good, because they always leave me wanting more.”
Geoffrey C. Ward’s “The Vietnam War” relives a conflict that divided Americans 50 years ago, and continues to evoke bitter memories today.
Mr. Donleavy’s first novel, which he called a celebration of “resolutely careless mayhem,” provoked controversy but came to be regarded as a classic.
In a new book, Ethan Nichtern divines lessons about love, family and Buddhism from the cult classic. Just don’t expect Inigo Montoya to find enlightenment.
“Draft No. 4,” John McPhee’s 32nd book, collects the writing advice of the longtime New Yorker staff writer and Princeton professor.
As policy makers, teachers, and parents work to expand pre-K programs, here are three books on what children really need.
Novels by Paul Auster, Emily Fridlund, Mohsin Hamid, Fiona Mozley, George Saunders and Ali Smith made the list. The prize will be announced Oct. 17.
In Brendan Mathews’s “The World of Tomorrow,” two brothers fleeing Ireland for New York get embroiled in a wild assassination plot.
Chris McNickle’s biography of Mike Bloomberg shows how New York’s mayor for 12 years used data and analysis to successfully transform the city.
Two new crime novels travel back to the not-so-placid 1950s, while a third visits 19th-century Appalachia. Another tries to escape in a hot-air balloon.
The folk singer — ex-husband of Kate McGarrigle and father of Rufus Wainwright, among his other connections — does not go easy on himself in this memoir.
“Unbelievable,” by the NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, describes what it was like to be on the front lines during the Trump presidential campaign.
The investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn will publish their new book, tentatively titled “The Russian Connection,” in March.
Jon Meacham on how Clinton’s chronicle of loss in 2016 compares with those of defeated candidates past.
Clinton’s account of the 2016 election is part post-mortem, part feminist manifesto and part score-settling jubilee.
Two New Yorkers — an aging lawyer and a young writer — make their way, separately, to Tel Aviv.
For readers seeking a novel kind of novel: illustrated narratives that harness the comic-book format to treat even the weightiest of themes.
In her new memoir, Sharapova speaks of Williams in a detailed and often antagonistic way, tracing their rivalry’s breaking point back to the 2004 Wimbledon final.
Mixing genres and voices, Nathan Englander’s novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” offers a tragicomic take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
These three writers saw the country from the ground.
Buruma has officially begun his tenure at the intellectual magazine, taking over from Robert Silvers, who died in March after having edited it since 1963.
Mr. Dalio has created an unusual and confrontational workplace at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm. With a new book, he hopes to inject his ideas into the mainstream.
William Taubman discusses his biography of Gorbachev, and N. K. Jemisin talks about reading, writing and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.
With her new book, “Reset,” a thwarted Silicon Valley power player hopes to do for gender discrimination what Anita Hill did for sexual harassment.
On tour to promote his new mystery novel, the BBC host pauses to shop for some bedding at a favorite furniture store.
Two books follow families affected by similar disasters, and a third argues that humans may hold the key to mitigating their impact.
Readers respond to the complicated relationship we have to Freud.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: A look at Mikhail Gorbachev’s memoir and the former statesman’s divisive reputation.
“The Store,” at No. 4 after three weeks on the hardcover fiction list, features a married couple at war with a dominant online retailer.
In “Little Boxes,” writers share how they were influenced by TV shows, in the days before prestige TV.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A little seed who’s unapologetically bad, a horrible baby brother, the kid who won’t stop screaming and more.
Four new novels set around the globe explore the causes and consequences of family estrangement.
The regret is one of a catalog of mistakes — large and small — that Mrs. Clinton lists in the election post-mortem “What Happened.”
Anyone who makes things for a living understands this sensation: the realization that the object you thought you were making is sometimes not what actually gets made.
Mrs. Clinton will talk about her failed bid for the White House and more in her first late-night TV appearance since the 2016 election.
A father and son escape painful reminders of their lost loved ones in Scotland to discover a new outlook in the American South.
The stories of three Australians in three different centuries are linked by a miraculous vision in Ashley Hay’s “The Body in the Clouds.”
Business books can be treasure troves of unexpected similes and mind-boggling analogies.
Revisiting Paul Scott’s “The Raj Quartet,” 70 years after the partition of India and Pakistan.
James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World” recounts the life of Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering natural scientist.
Elizabeth Day dissects the 21st-century British class system in this novel rife with literary allusions.
In Rebecca Wait’s novel “The Followers,” a lonely woman and her child are lured into an isolated community on the Yorkshire moors.
The teenagers in Claire Messud’s novel “The Burning Girl” have always been best friends. Now they’re growing painfully, possibly dangerously, apart.
Betty Friedan pointed out the problem that had no name. In “Sexual Politics,” Kate Millett named it and explained its cause.
In “Beautiful Bodies,” Kimberly Rae Miller recounts her lifelong addiction to deprivation through dieting.
A year after his death, the last of the founding generation of Israel’s leaders describes a life “entwined with the birth and construction of Israel.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Forty years after the publication of his groundbreaking travelogue, ‘‘In Patagonia,’’ the author’s writing — and style — have lost none of their power to bewitch and inspire.
Vanessa Grigoriadis’s fascinating but often frustrating “Blurred Lines” is a kaleidoscopic tour through the campus sexual assault controversy.
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.”
A dispute that dragged on for years, and involved none of the author’s blood relatives, is settled.
Discovering the author’s home in Maine, where he wrote “Charlotte’s Web” and heard those darn crickets.
In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.
Books and audiobooks, of course. Also, an old Samsonite suitcase and a reservation at a Motel 6.
Ms. Millett’s 1970 book, “Sexual Politics,” was revolutionary in its analysis of gender roles in society and provoked a backlash in some quarters.
Ben Blum tries to get to the bottom of his cousin’s participation in an armed bank robbery.
George Smiley returns in this coda to le Carré’s classic, “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
A passage about breasts in “Growing Up for Boys” leads to some awkward conversations for a British publisher.
With “Junk,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 1980s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
In “Black Detroit,” Herb Boyd celebrates the city’s rich history through its unsung heroes.
William Taubman’s definitive new biography, “Gorbachev,” describes a leader who was celebrated abroad, reviled at home.
Novels, graphic and otherwise, about the world at war, life with no future and imagined universes.
Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” follows a tender teenager and his drug-addicted mother on a road trip.
Much of life consists of musing moments when we look at something so beautiful or surprising that we wonder, briefly, who we are. This is the feeling the poet gave his readers.
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s luminous debut novel has the disenchanting optimism of the blues.
The 68-year-old chairman’s deeply personal new book, “Principles: Life & Work,” explores a workplace culture that he has embraced as “radical transparency.”
Before becoming a novelist, I spent six years at war. Years later, I came to America and finally met my old enemies.
For real, true friends, there are sweet spots, rough spots and true connection — beyond clicks and tweets.
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.
In her new novel, “Wishtree,” Katherine Applegate channels the natural world to take on prejudice against immigrants.
Rushdie’s 13th novel is exhausting, but it’s a treat when focused on a villain who resembles Donald Trump.
A former high school teacher, Ms. Vreeland was best known for her novel “Girl in Hyacinth Blue,” which traces the history of a fictional painting.
Social media make it seem as if meaningful lives are the extraordinary and attention-grabbing ones. That’s rarely the case.
Alison Moore’s novel “The Lighthouse” follows a lonely British hiker on an increasingly precarious trek through the German countryside.
Joanna Scott’s “Careers for Women,” featuring a Port Authority publicist in midcentury Manhattan, serves up a vice-ridden narrative with white-glove service.
In Stephen Baxter’s authorized follow-up to H. G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, the Martians return, and this time they know what they’re doing.
A professional deceiver and a high-minded conservative reach the same dead end.
From a 1984 best seller, Ms. Hay built a publishing empire emphasizing the power of positive thoughts.
Suzy Hansen discusses “Notes on a Foreign Country,” and David Thomson talks about “Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio.”
David Litt’s book about his time in the Obama White House is different than most books by political operatives: He writes about his lack of influence.
“Y is for Yesterday,” the penultimate installment of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Series, premieres on the Best-Seller list at No. 1.
This week’s crime novels delve into the Spanish past and into film history, then grapple with two present-day children tormented by dangerous visions.