In “University of Nike,” Joshua Hunt examines the University of Oregon and Nike as a case study for the relationship between public institutions and corporate benefactors.
Books on Saudi Arabian history and politics shed light on the Saud family’s reign.
Ms. Anthony was one of the few women to explore the espionage genre. “I am basically an entertainer, and I’m very proud of it,” she said.
Translating is “like acting,” said Ms. Bell, the rare practitioner who became a well-known name in her own right.
Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” about a 1986 blaze in Los Angeles that damaged or destroyed more than a million books.
“Unsheltered,” a big, gripping, emotionally complex novel on the same scale as “The Poisonwood Bible,” explores what it means to have a safe place in the world.
Jaclyn Backhaus’s new play sounds like the story of a Punjabi-American of her generation, and it is. But it also draws on her mother’s fraught family.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut story collection has been compared to works by literary masters like Isaac Babel, Ralph Ellison and Anton Chekhov.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Scott Simon on “Saturday Night.”
“One Part Woman,” by the Tamil novelist Perumal Murugan, imagines the pain of childlessness for a rural Indian couple during the colonial era.
The graphic artist Kristen Radtke recalls the influence that a book about the seas had on her young imagination.
Sibling truces, outrageous wordplay, being a kid in Beijing and more in the latest delights for the smallest readers and listeners.
Nate Chinen on “jazz for the new century”; Wendy Lesser’s biography of a great choreographer; and the most entertaining theatrical rivalry ever.
James Patterson offers movie reviews; John Sandford provides statistics on his use of profanities; Tana French promises readers something remarkable.
An intercontinental romance ends in tragedy in Heather Taylor-Johnson’s debut, “Jean Harley Was Here.”
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column sets readers on the trail of stalkers and sleuths, from Iceland to Denmark to an archaeological museum in Chicago.
Derek Leebaert’s “Grand Improvisation” tells a complicated story of post-World War II Europe with Washington often operating in a fog.
Lars Petter Sveen’s “Children of God,” his first novel to be translated into English, presents a problematic portrayal of Jesus Christ.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Imogen Hermes Gowar’s historical novel sets a sharp-clawed sea creature adrift on the raucous social tides of 18th-century London.
In well-reviewed books like “A Country Year” and “A Book of Bees,” she described adjusting to a midlife divorce and keeping 300 hives in the Ozarks.
The merger comes at a moment when big publishing houses are still adapting to the shift toward online retail and marketing.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Suzanne Collins’s lead character in The Hunger Games trilogy is a timely reminder to all who care to heed it: Teenage girls are powerful and courageous and capable of great rage.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first book in the trilogy, here is an excerpt from an interview between the publisher and the author.
Robin Sloan is using a homemade software program to supply phrases and images for his new book.
Sean Wilentz’s “No Property in Man” argues that despite some expedient compromises, the Constitution’s writers were careful to plant the seeds of abolition.
The singer, whose memoir “My Love Story” has just been published, wishes Mick Jagger would write an autobiography: “He can outtalk anyone on the planet. That’s the book I want to read, and so will everybody else. Mick?”
“Rationalization was much easier than recognizing the gravity of what was lost: an innocent, healthy childhood and an introduction to sexuality on my terms.”
Her previous memoirs delved into her parents’ traumatic influence. Now, in “On Sunset,” she introduces the beloved Old World grandparents who raised her.
Young adult and middle grade fiction to educate children in the vast terrain of Native American history.
David W. Blight’s “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” is an ambitious and empathetic biography of a major American life.
“Her hovering is so fierce that it penetrates the walls,” said Sonny Mehta, the company’s chairman and editor in chief.
Judith Newman’s latest Help Desk column ventures into the minefield of marriage, dating, desire — and divorce.
The judges cited her use of dark humor to explore tribalism, state-sponsored terrorism, social division and sexual and political oppression.
In Perumal Murugan’s “One Part Woman,” a religious festival allows childless women to sleep with men other than their husbands, in the hope of becoming pregnant.
In “The Poison Squad,” Deborah Blum tells the story of the early-20th-century U.S.D.A. inspector who changed the way we think about food.
Jenkins talks about his adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and Wolitzer discusses the adaptation of her novel “The Wife.”
The writer discloses where he gets his signature hats and the “Game of Thrones” character that reminds him the most of Trump.
The writer of “A Game of Thrones” fields questions from New York Times staffer superfans.
The Japanese novelist’s latest book, “Killing Commendatore,” features a stymied artist, a haunted painting and a host of paranormal mysteries.
“CoDex 1962,” by the Icelandic cult writer Sjon, is a trippy, philosophical, shaggy-dog novel combining a love story, a crime mystery and a science-fiction thriller in one.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
New books by Jose Antonio Vargas, José Olivarez and Julissa Arce explore what being part of mixed-status families, in which either they or their relatives were undocumented, has meant to them.
Writing into her 90s — her last book was published last month — Dr. Midgley challenged with wit and verve the primacy of science as arbiter of reality.
“Unsheltered” threads the story of a present-day family struggling in New Jersey with that of a 19th-century science teacher who had lived on the same property.
A journalist’s traumatic story of epilepsy and his struggle to have it treated seriously, and properly, in his college years.
The message here: A library is much more than its books.
Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book” is an absorbing account of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Central Library and a homage to libraries everywhere.
The author of “A Game of Thrones” has expanded the realms of genre fiction and prestige television — and forever changed how we engage with an imagined universe.
Jessie Greengrass discusses her first novel, about a woman remembering her mother and grandmother as she decides whether to have children herself.
She read 171 books for the prestigious literary prize. “On Oct. 17, I’m going to sit down and read a book I have no obligation to read,” she said.
Jill Soloway is building a gender-free empire.
Professor Lobel was among the first historians to explore the economic and social elements of city life in the 19th century through the lens of eating.
“It wouldn’t have been exciting before Trump,” Michael Lewis says of “The Fifth Risk.” “I think Trump’s electrified all the material.”
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Paula Giddings on Steven R. Carter’s “Hansberry’s Drama.
Los Angeles has long been the perfect backdrop from crime writers. This map of the city will help you find the setting for nine books, classic and new.
Los Angeles has long been the perfect backdrop from crime writers. This map of the city will help you find the setting for nine books, classic and new.
Tyson’s new book shows how the technologies that advanced our knowledge of the universe were designed with military advantage in mind.
Want to risk trying to outsmart other investors? Start by understanding where we are in the market cycle, a Wall Street veteran says in a new book.
New novels about road trips, summer jobs and first love as well as darker realities: mental illness, body issues, the threat of gun violence.
In “If You Love Me,” Maureen Cavanagh chronicles her family’s journey through her daughter Katie’s heroin addiction.
Alethea Black’s memoir, “You’ve Been So Lucky Already,” traces her journey from grief to religious faith.
Ms. Condé is the author of “I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem,” “Segu,” “Windward Heights” and other emotionally complex novels that reach across history and cultures.
Fiction from and about our northern neighbors revealing parents and children in turmoil.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In her column, Hillary Chute explores work from Riad Sattouf, Don Brown, Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham.
Luce D’Eramo’s incredible tale of bravery or insanity, described in “Deviation,” has been translated into English for the first time.
In “Patient X,” David Peace explores the conflicted career of the great Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who committed suicide when only 35.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
From Henry James’s “ The Turn of the Screw” to Stephen King’s “The Shining,” the haunted house is a staple of horror novels.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Christian Wiman’s strangely powerful new book, “He Held Radical Light,” argues for the inherent holiness of art.
The author, most recently, of “The Library Book” says visitors might be surprised to see a copy of “Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition” on her shelves: “I recommend it over the third edition.”
Michael Beschloss’s “Presidents of War” looks at the pressures on chief executives when they make the ultimate decision to risk American lives.
Stephen King, a recent Times reviewer, wrote back in 30 seconds and was a “dream” to edit. It’s not always that easy.
A Swiss heiress, she was an adventurous traveler whose writings, along with her androgynous glamour and troubled life, made her a gay cult figure after her death.
The Japanese author’s intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, between regular life and irregular happenings.
In “The Witch Elm,” squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.
Orlean’s latest, inspired by the mystery of a fire that destroyed and damaged more than a million books in Los Angeles, is also a tribute to public libraries.
Lauren Groff, Rebecca Makkai and Sarah Smarsh are among the 25 shortlisted books in five categories.
Norwegian authorities refused to identify the suspects or discuss the evidence. They filed charges two days before a deadline that would have forced them to drop the case.
In “The Nickel Boys,” the author of the award-winning “Underground Railroad” explores the dark history of a segregated Florida reform school
In a turnabout no one expected, New York’s most prominent stages are rich with drama, most of it new and most of it American.
Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948” takes Gandhi on his own terms but does not gloss over the flaws.
The British playwright Leo Butler believes that taking acid can have beneficial effects. His new play explores how he thinks it can help.
The C.I.A. tried to quash one book, to the point of buying up all the copies. But the publisher said it would just print more. It became a best seller.
In Sarah Perry’s new novel, a wraith condemned to wander the world tempts the lonely to join her for mysterious ends.
“Looking for Lorraine,” by Imani Perry, is an admiring account of the life of the influential playwright, activist and intellectual Lorraine Hansberry.
Robert Gottlieb has amassed over 400 pieces on road trips around the United States, from caramel-colored purses to pearly Lucite minaudières.
Mr. Galton and Alan Simpson created the landmark comedy series “Steptoe and Son,” the inspiration for the hit American show “Sanford and Son.”
The violent history of sugar is the subject of a talk at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
“Your Duck Is My Duck” offers six new stories filled with Eisenberg’s trademark style, blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
What the world needs now? Handwritten cards and letters.
Our critic calls John Wray’s new novel, which is loosely based on the story of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, “a significant literary performance.”
Most of us own books we’ve read and books we haven’t. Kevin Mims considers the importance of owning books we’ll never get around to finishing.
Pamela Paul and two other editors of The New York Times Book Review explain how they use the section’s long tradition as a “political Switzerland” to try to bring conversations to the center.
“The Fifth Risk” examines the crucial, often life-or-death, work done by officials in three government agencies.
Appropriation goes both ways, and increasingly it’s being seen as a creative freedom for writers who have been excluded from the literary canon.
A growing canon of female-centered science fiction looks at questions of gender inequality, misogyny and institutionalized sexism.
“Every Day Is Extra” is the memoir of an eyewitness to some of the most dramatic changes in American political history.
In French’s new novel, a young man struggles to make sense of his own memory and identity after barely surviving an attack.
She founded City Arts & Lectures, which showcases conversation as entertainment and is broadcast on more than 100 public radio stations nationwide.
Mr. Radunsky harnessed a multitude of artistic styles for different narrative effects in books about subjects including Albert Einstein and a rapping dog.
Atkinson discusses her new novel about a young woman caught up in spy work during World War II.
With its latest Insta Novel, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the New York Public Library is aiming to expose young audiences to a work from 1892.
Two memoirs and one novel center on the experience of living through a tsunami and how to reckon with what’s left.
In “Boomer1,” the internet is the battleground for generational warfare.
“Attention: Dispatches From a Land of Distraction,” a collection of essays by the novelist Joshua Cohen, is a testament of intellectual seriousness from one of America’s most interesting minds.
Marilyn Stasio’s column takes readers to backwater towns in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the murky Victorian-era Thames. Also a not-very-sunny California.
In “The Faithful Spy,” John Hendrix makes the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader of the Dutch resistance against the Nazis, into both a thriller and a tale of valiant faith.
“The End of the Moment We Had” marks the first English appearance of prose by the playwright Toshiki Okada.
Amal El-Mohtar looks at four books that immerse readers in richly imagined otherworlds.
In “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” which debuts on the list at No. 1, a YouTube video transforms its creator into an overnight media sensation.
An illustrated retelling of the Russian novelist’s troubled marriage, and final breaths.
Whether you want to know more about orcas, the whale fossil record, the Maine lobstering industry or fish behavior, there’s a book for you.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Two marriages begin fraying at the seams in Diana Evans’s “Ordinary People.”
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The classicist and author of ‘How Do We Look’ explains what Instagram’s most popular photos reveal about our likes (and dislikes).
At the New-York Historical Society, a glimpse of the folkloric, cultural and scientific influences on the magic of the popular series.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Elliot Ackerman’s “Waiting for Eden” keeps an eye on a wounded veteran from the perspective of his dead best friend.
In the third novel in Ide’s IQ series, the detective Isaiah Quintabe is entangled in a case involving a missing woman and a menacing group of ex-Abu Ghraib military personnel.
The bookseller is considering putting itself up for sale, again. Shareholders are delighted, but it’s unclear if a buyer could turn the company around.
The author, most recently, of the novel “Gone So Long” is moved by compassion in literature: “The sense that the writer is not poking fun at his or her characters, but instead is genuinely curious about their lives.”
In his new book, “Beautiful Country Burn Again,” the author of “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” turns to the state of our politics in the age of Trump.
Nora Krug’s “Belonging” is about the author’s attempt to trace the stubborn silences in German life and her own family’s role during World War II.
In “Crudo,” Olivia Laing creates a pastiche of voices and identities to explore the boundaries between who she is and who she might have become.
Ms. Parks has been chosen for the Mimi, or the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, which comes with a $200,000 cash award.
The Spanish novelist Javier Cercas investigated the case of Enric Marco, the fabulist who claimed to have been in a concentration camp.
The paradox of the overzealous editing of the college essay by many helicopter parents is that they don’t know what a college essay is really about.
In “The Fifth Risk,” Lewis enumerates grave dangers resulting from the incompetent transition to a new White House administration.
Nate Blakeslee’s book about “the world’s most famous wolf” is our October pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s “Hey, Kiddo” tells an unvarnished story of drug-fueled, hard-drinking family dysfunction — and the power of both art and stubborn love to save a kid.
Mark Judge’s 1997 memoir, “Wasted,” captures both the milieu in which the author and Brett Kavanaugh were raised, and prevailing ideas of masculinity in the 1980s.
The 72-year-old avant-garde writer and editor will publish a career-spanning collection this month.
Ben Macintyre’s new book, “The Spy and the Traitor,” recounts the extraordinary stories of the Soviet Oleg Gordievsky and the American Aldrich Ames, spies who betrayed their countries.
In a satirical new novel, a former Google executive identifies the technology industry’s chief issue: its narrow engineering-focused bubble.
Steven Johnson’s “Farsighted” looks at those fork-in-the-road moments that can forever alter the future.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction, both imaginative and realist, rooted in a powerful sense of place.
After fleeing Nazi Germany, he steeped himself in world affairs, from the Middle East to the Soviet Union, running think tanks and writing prodigiously.
Jarrett Krosoczka’s memoir, “Hey, Kiddo,” recounts being raised by his grandparents — thanks to an absent father and a heroin-using mother.
“Life in Culture,” edited by Adam Kirsch, collects correspondence by the regal American literary and social critic.
Paige Williams tells a panoramic story that has, at its center, a man who tried to sell a stolen Tyrannosaurus skeleton from Mongolia.
To write “American Prison,” the prizewinning reporter Shane Bauer spent four months undercover at a privately run Louisiana prison. What he found was shocking.
The charges against Mr. Arnault, an influential figure in the Swedish arts scene, stemmed from a crisis that led to the cancellation of this year’s Nobel literature prize.