‘Respect’

Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Followed His Own Path, Dies at 87

By DANIEL LEWIS

Mr. Kinnell won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for works that pushed deep into the heart of human experience.

Newly Released

Books by David Nicholls and Edward St. Aubyn

By CARMELA CIURARU

Recent releases include fiction by David Nicholls, Edward St. Aubyn, Yannick Grannec and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Books of The Times

‘The Book of Strange New Things’

By MICHAEL FABER
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

In Michel Faber’s novel “The Book of Strange New Things,” a missionary dispatched to a faraway planet gets desperate missives from his wife.

The Bad Boy of Soviet Writers

By RACHEL DONADIO

Emmanuel Carrère’s new book profiles Edward Limonov, the bad boy of Soviet dissident writers.

Books of The Times

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’

By JOHN LAHR
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

“Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” is John Lahr’s thick volume on the playwright.

Books

Healing the Metaphorical Heart

By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.

Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.

Closing a Chapter of a Literary Life

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

Ahead of the American publication of his latest work, “The Book of Strange New Things,” Michel Faber discusses it and why it will be his last novel.

Laugharne Journal

In Wales, a Toast to Dylan Thomas on His 100th Birthday

By KATRIN BENNHOLD

In a country that has long been ill at ease with its hard-living son, Thomas’s granddaughter is trying to refocus public attention on the poet’s work.

Books of The Times

‘At Home in Exile’

By ALAN WOLFE
Reviewed by MICHAEL S. ROTH

In “At Home in Exile,” Alan Wolfe argues that the Diaspora has fostered in Jews a commitment to defend the rights of other groups and to live by universal values wherever they may be.

Books of The Times

‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman’

By JILL LEPORE
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

“The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” by Jill Lepore, is fundamentally a biography of Wonder Woman’s larger-than-life creator, William Moulton Marston.

Remembering a Seducer

By WILLIAM GRIMES

The 92nd Street Y is marking the centennial of Dylan Thomas’s birth with an exhibition and a revival of his 1953 radio play “Under Milk Wood” this weekend.

In Reversal, Barnes & Noble Executives Say Store Will Remain in the Bronx

By WINNIE HU

Executives said the bookstore in the Bay Plaza in Co-op City will remain open for at least two more years.

Books of The Times

‘Ebola’

By DAVID QUAMMEN
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI

David Quammen’s “Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus” sets aside the hyperbole yet still unnerves.

A Decoder for Financial Illiterates

By SARAH LYALL

The British writer John Lanchester demystifies the financial world in “How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say — And What It Really Means.”

Children’s Books

Into the Woods

By MARIA RUSSO

Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti reinvent “Hansel and Gretel.”

Fantasizing on the Famous

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.

Books of The Times

‘High Times’

Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.

The Eye of a Pilot Serves a Writer

By CHARLES McGRATH

Samuel Hynes’s new book, “The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War,” was inspired by his life of flying, most notably as an airman in World War II.

Ali Mazrui, Scholar of Africa Who Divided U.S. Audiences, Dies at 81

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”

Books of The Times

‘All Things Possible’

By ANDREW M. CUOMO
Reviewed by SAM ROBERTS

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has written a memoir that also touches on the general state of American politics today.

Books of The Times

Moonwalk a Mile in His Shoes

By JON CARAMANICA

“Michael Jackson’s Dangerous” looks at an album up close, while “The Michael Jacksons” examines Jackson impersonators.

Capturing the Life of a Striver Who Fell Short of the White House

By SAM ROBERTS

In 15 years of research on Nelson A. Rockefeller, Richard Norton Smith says he came to see him as an impetuous dreamer who also wanted circumstances very much under his control.

Australian’s P.O.W. Novel Wins Man Booker Prize

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

Richard Flanagan, who was honored for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” is the third Australian to win the prize.