She and her husband, Irving Ravetch, were among Hollywood’s most successful and literate script writers, collaborating on movies like “Hud” and “Norma Rae.”
Mr. Smith will leave the news organization where he has been editor in chief since 2012.
Sanam Maher’s “A Woman Like Her” tells the story of Qandeel Baloch, a figure of intense fascination and outrage who insisted on living on her own terms.
An excerpt from “Why We’re Polarized,” by Ezra Klein
An excerpt from “Run Me to Earth,” by Paul Yoon
An excerpt from “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East,” by Kim Ghattas
Debut fiction by Nicole Flattery, Miriam Cohen and Nicolette Polek unearths the uncanny.
Kim Ghattas’s “Black Wave” examines the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran that is tearing the Middle East apart.
Donna Rifkind’s “The Sun and Her Stars” recounts the story of Salka Viertel, little remembered today but a major presence in Golden Age Hollywood.
“Run Me to Earth,” a new novel by Paul Yoon, examines the devastating toll of mass violence and loss on a handful of survivors.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond,” Lydia Denworth explores the growing, cross-species science of friendships — how they work and why.
Fred Kaplan’s “The Bomb” explains how the United States plans to fight a nuclear war.
Rashid Khalidi’s “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” argues that the Palestinian point of view has been ignored by American policymakers.
In “Invisible Americans,” the veteran journalist Jeff Madrick lays out a simple solution to child poverty, a condition that affects 17.5 percent of this country’s kids.
Ezra Klein’s “Why We’re Polarized” seeks to explain what has changed in our electoral politics and why our differences are so hard to overcome.
In “Billion Dollar Brand Club,” Lawrence Ingrassia traces the rise of the direct-to-consumer revolution.
Sarah DiGregorio’s new book combines memoir and reporting to explore changing treatments for babies born early.
In Andrew David MacDonald’s debut novel, “When We Were Vikings,” a young woman on the fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum is obsessed with Norse culture.
In a new biography, David G. Marwell tells the whole story of the notorious Nazi, down to the discovery of his bones.
Jessica Stern’s “My War Criminal” recounts the time she spent with Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian leader implicated in atrocities committed in the 1990s.
El manuscrito del libro de John Bolton, exasesor de seguridad nacional de la Casa Blanca, tiene revelaciones que podrían implicar al presidente de Estados Unidos.
“New Kid,” by Jerry Craft, won the children’s literature prize, while “The Undefeated,” written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, won the Caldecott Medal.
The clumsy high-profile rollout of the polarizing novel points to a larger issue concerning how new books are promoted.
Gish Jen’s “The Resisters” imagines a future surveillance state and a young woman who throws a mean fastball.
New revelations from the former White House national security adviser could complicate President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Drafts of the book outline the potential testimony of the former national security adviser if he were called as a witness in the president’s impeachment trial.
Jeanine Cummins’s novel about migrants fleeing violence is a hit with booksellers, but critics have called it “trauma porn” that exploits another country’s pain.
He broke ground with his assertion that the factors that helped the best companies succeed were also the reasons some of those same companies failed.
A new comic book series imagines that Nancy has been killed, infuriating some fans of the unstoppable teen detective who made her debut 90 years ago.
And in Jasmon Drain’s debut collection, “Stateway’s Garden,” they do.
Bernstein discusses her new book about the Trumps and Kushners, and David Zucchino talks about “Wilmington’s Lie.”
Perdí la vista, empecé a vivir con un perro guía, me enamoré de un hombre que me quiere y aparecieron las dudas: ¿Acaso está viéndose con alguien más? ¿Es más bonita que yo?
And there are so many kinds of beholders!
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
The Booker Prize winner is teaming up with his editor, Jake Morrissey, on “Marlon and Jake Read Dead People.”
This week, Jabari Asim reviews a collection of short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. In 1978, Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote for the Book Review about Robert Hemenway’s “Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography.”
The bodies pile up at the hands of hit men, henchmen, doctors, arms dealers and White House interns.
Heartbreak, exile, lethal violence and the gold rush in the Amazon are some of the themes explored in three newly translated works.
Inspired by a character in a classic children’s book, Ann Napolitano began writing herself letters to be read only 10 years later.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Ms. Arthur, previously the publisher at Little, Brown, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died late last year.
The handbag one T editor is using for an organized 2020 — and more.
Jessica Stern’s new book recounts her series of meetings with Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who is serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
A spokeswoman for the French company did not answer questions about the its editing practices.
In addition to being a charter member of the celebrated British sketch troupe, he was a director, a screenwriter and an authority on Chaucer.
The author-as-muse at Givenchy, ikat-as-muse at Armani and upcycling at Margiela.
An excerpt from “Processed Cheese,” by Stephen Wright
A California book dealer is bringing his vintage food books and manuscripts to New York for Bibliography Week.
A selection of recent visual books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Kyle Chayka’s book delves into art, architecture, music and philosophy to learn why the idea of “less is more” keeps resurfacing.
The chef Iliana Regan created a hit Chicago restaurant and wrote a tough, award-winning memoir. But her real dream lives in a cabin in northern Michigan.
Stephen Wright’s satirical novel “Processed Cheese” takes on the excesses of the superrich.
“The Good Hawk,” a thrilling adventure fantasy debut by Joseph Elliott, has a heroine with intellectual disabilities. It’s about time.
In “Sunnyside Plaza,” Simon’s funny, observant protagonist solves a mystery. She also has developmental disabilities.
In “Fight of the Century,” edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, contributors including Jacqueline Woodson, Dave Eggers and Scott Turow explicate landmark A.C.L.U. cases.
A solitary woman who leaps from her balcony to her death and a writer who uncovers a family secret hidden by the war figure in these new works by Israeli authors.
A new novel uses old recipes and retro advice to connect the lives of women in different centuries.
In “Slaying Goliath,” the veteran public-education activist celebrates the defeat of efforts to introduce federal education standards and testing into public schools and expand charters.
Love literally hurts in Sue Rainsford’s haunting debut novel, “Follow Me to Ground.”
In “What’s Your Pronoun?” Dennis Baron argues that the language’s lack of a third-person, gender-neutral pronoun has dogged writers and speakers since at least the Middle Ages.
An excerpt from “American Dirt,” by Jeanine Cummins
An excerpt from “A Long Petal of the Sea,” by Isabel Allende
In “The Third Rainbow Girl,” Emma Copley Eisenberg investigates the 1980 killings of two women hitchhiking to a festival in West Virginia.
For patients with life-altering illnesses or anyone just getting older, it helps to roll with the punches and make the best of the here and now.
Based on true events around the Spanish Civil War, Allende’s novel “A Long Petal of the Sea” explores the lives of exiles.
She also wrote about the death of her son at 27, for which she — and he — blamed her because she had been an alcoholic when she was pregnant with him.
Jeanine Cummins’s third novel follows a mother and son on their harrowing attempt to escape from Mexico, cartel assassins at their heels.
Our readers offer a heartfelt tribute to the power of the written word, paying homage to Orwell, Thoreau, Betty Friedan, Julia Child and Dr. Seuss, to name but a few.
These books will help little ones slow down and breathe easy, even during rough moments.
These books about teenagers growing up today combine literary chops with the special sauce that keep adolescent readers turning the pages.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talk about their new book, and Daniel Susskind discusses “A World Without Work.”
Jeanine Cummins’s much-anticipated novel “American Dirt,” about Mexican migrants crossing to America, is well intentioned. Is that enough?
An excerpt from “Cleanness,” by Garth Greenwell
An excerpt from “Abigail,” by Magda Szabo
Here are a few possible directions “Little Women” might go next.
Michael Lind’s “The New Class War” sees class divisions at the heart of America’s current political divide.
Published in Hungary in 1970 and now translated into English for the first time, “Abigail” is a fable-like story set at a girls’ boarding school during wartime.
The lawlessness and corruption that characterize Vladimir Putin’s regime are examined by three authors from many angles, and from top to bottom.
For the American hero of “Cleanness,” part of the allure of Bulgaria is that it is disintegrating around him.
The narrator of Jessica Andrews’s first novel, “Saltwater,” is a university graduate from the working class, trying to find her place in the wider world.
Stephen Marche on why he collects rare books and why our culture undervalues them.
Blindness can make you paranoid in love. Is he looking at another woman? Is she prettier than me?
In “The Age of Entitlement,” Christopher Caldwell argues that the source of today’s political divisions can be found in the reforms of the 1960s.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
This week, Anand Giridharadas reviews “The New Class War,” by Michael Lind. In 2014, Giridharadas wrote for the Book Review about “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,” in which Jeff Hobbs wrote about his murdered college roommate.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
She was spared by German soldiers seeking her uncle and protector, a cousin of Albert Einstein. She went on to help start the British New Wave in cinema.
As literary executor of the estate of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mr. Tolkien compiled and edited such works as “The Silmarillion.”
A philosopher, author and columnist, he was an outspoken hero to conservatives in Britain and recently at the center of, in his words, a “hate storm.”
Her popular crime solvers Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin were the focus of dozens of books, as well as TV series.
“A Very Stable Genius,” by the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s time in office to date.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Max Czollek, whose first nonfiction book is a rebuttal to calls for integration, believes that his country must face its history with more honesty — and that those who are singled out shouldn’t try to fit in.
The leading maker of MSG started a push to ask Merriam-Webster to change its definition of the term, first added in 1993.
Ideally cast as a plain-spoken woman made of quiet steel, she acts the way Elizabeth Strout writes in this compelling adaptation of the 2016 novel.
She spent 33 years on the two-volume biography, examining 460,000 items at the Library of Congress that stretched 319 linear feet.
The president asked administration officials to help kill the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to a new book from two Washington Post reporters.
This new book includes the commanding literary critic’s pieces on Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow and others, as well as more personal work about his childhood and his family.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In a new book, the former pope makes a firm defense of celibacy for priests as Pope Francis is expected to decide whether to allow married priests in remote regions. Let the intrigue begin.
Her copy of the sixth printing of the book, from 1921, has been donated to the library of the Mount, her home in Lenox, Mass.
A Times copy editor, she kick-started Anthony Bourdain’s career when she helped him get a tell-all article about the restaurant world published in The New Yorker.
“Race of Aces,” John Bruning’s action-fueled World War II narrative, follows the elite fighter pilots who competed to shoot down the most enemy planes.
What could possibly make this generation of image-bombarded, constantly visually stimulated kids choose books more often? One answer lies in graphic novels.
There's a chronic problem lurking below New York City's streets: a labyrinth of aging infrastructure.
An excerpt from “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power,” by Andrea Bernstein
An excerpt from “Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick,” by Zora Neale Hurston
The narrator of Jonathan Buckley’s novel “The Great Concert of the Night” uses a journal to keep alive memories of the enigmatic actress he loved.
In “The Secret Guests,” Benjamin Black imagines what might have happened had the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret been sent abroad during the Blitz.
In “A World Without Work,” the economist Daniel Susskind argues that, unlike during past technological shifts, machines really are becoming smart enough to take over our jobs.
“Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick” collects 21 stories from throughout her career, including eight that illuminate the Great Migration north.
In his “nonfiction” novel “Lord of All the Dead,” Javier Cercas unearths the conflicted story of a relative who died serving in Franco’s army.
For his new book, “Extreme Economies,” Richard Davies visited nine struggling places — from a Louisiana prison to the Panamanian rain forest — to glean economic lessons for all of us.
In Meng Jin’s debut novel, “Little Gods,” a teenage immigrant excavates her late mother’s long-buried truths.
James Mann’s “The Great Rift” describes the up-and-down relationship of two men who shaped American foreign policy for a generation.
In Scarlett Thomas’s new novel, “Oligarchy,” the skinny girls rule the roost.
A new book considers the merging of real estate dynasties and its lasting impact on American democracy.
In “Imperfect Union,” his double biography of John and Jessie Frémont, the NPR host Steve Inskeep brings to life a 19th-century power couple.
Christopher Knowlton’s “Bubble in the Sun” tells a story of fortunes made and lost in Florida real estate.
An excerpt from “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Garth Greenwell’s second novel is about a middle-aged American teacher’s sexual and existential journey while working in Bulgaria.
For nearly four decades, his lyrical columns for The Times brought readers to the banks of clear-running streams and the hushed glades of majestic forests.
There is a fine line between a story that is about the worldview of a specific person and one that declares that this worldview is the only one that matters.
Jeanine Cummins depicts a mother and son’s gut-wrenching journey in “American Dirt,” even as she acknowledges “I don’t know if I’m the right person to tell this story.”
Don’t tell bad-news stories or be falsely optimistic. Do offer to organize closets or send eight pints of ice cream.
More than half are children’s books, but “1984,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Fahrenheit 451” also made the list.
The crisis of English departments is also a crisis of faith.
The memento mori of two friends.
He worked with Peter Lynch on several guides to stock trading. He also wrote a guidebook that offered no advice at all.
He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted.
An increasing number of novels are putting women’s anger front and center. Here are some of our favorites.
A baseball player uses romance novels to help woo his estranged wife, a fake relationship leads to real feelings, and more stories of happily ever after.
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir, and Elisabeth Egan talks about Group Text, a new monthly feature from the Book Review.
How one young reader found himself in a different kind of literature.
“Prozac Nation” seemed to herald a boundless future for young creatives. It was actually the beginning of the end.
“Tightrope,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is a wrenching portrait of rural Yamhill, Ore., Kristof’s hometown and a microcosm for America.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
This week, Claire Jarvis reviews a biography of Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill. In 1990, John Mortimer wrote for the Book Review about “Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries,” Gill’s biography of Christie.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A graphic novel, Fire Power: Prelude, will debut in April, ahead of the release of the Fire Power series.
The president and executive director of the trade organization, which is reeling from disputes involving racism and diversity, said they were stepping down.
We’re asking you to describe a book that has influenced your outlook.
An unassuming screenwriter and actor, Mr. Henry thought up quirky characters with Mel Brooks and inhabited many more on “Saturday Night Live.”
In his new book, the writer sought to create “something that was 100 percent pornographic and 100 percent high art.”
“Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game,” says the author of “Agency” and other science fiction novels, “if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative.”
Meet the debut author behind the first instant best seller of the year.