Children’s Books
Into the Woods
By MARIA RUSSO
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti reinvent “Hansel and Gretel.”
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti reinvent “Hansel and Gretel.”
At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.
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.
Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has written a memoir that also touches on the general state of American politics today.
“Michael Jackson’s Dangerous” looks at an album up close, while “The Michael Jacksons” examines Jackson impersonators.
Mr. Honan’s groundbreaking books included biographies of Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Jane Austen and Shakespeare.
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.
“The Hot Zone,” the nonfiction thriller about Ebola that Richard Preston wrote 20 years ago, is back on best-seller lists.
In “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande explores how to bring meaning and purpose to the last phase of life.
In “Boy on Ice,” John Branch examines the death of the N.H.L. player Derek Boogaard and the role that hockey’s culture of violence may have played.
Taking their cue from the Surrealist parlor game, 15 renowned authors take turns contributing to an original short story.
Richard Flanagan, who was honored for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” is the third Australian to win the prize.
The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction and fiction on Wednesday morning.
Several new books include works of, and details about, the poet John Berryman, who would have been 100 this year.
New Halloween picture books include “Not Very Scary” and “Bob’s Hungry Ghost.”
Citing a fair 1870 trial, “The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case” by Michael A. Ross argues that the racial reforms of Reconstruction were not preordained to fail.
In Colm Toibin’s new novel, “Nora Webster,” the flinty heroine is a just-widowed mother of four who returns to work and finds the experience slowly transformative.
James Risen’s book “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War” describes the seamy sides of America’s war on terror during the past 13 years.
A sumptuous new bookstore, Albertine, and an accompanying festival of ideas literary, economic and mathematical arrive at the French Embassy’s Cultural Services office on Fifth Avenue.
Over thousands of years, humans have tried to represent the universe in graphic form, whether in manuscripts, paintings, prints, books or supercomputer simulations.
Though not an adaptation of a Roth novel per se, “Listen Up Philip” underscores the novelist’s hold on filmmakers.
Christine Kenneally explores what DNA can tell us about our ancestors and the rest of human history.
The author of “Choose Your Own Autobiography” loved “Gone Girl”: “I devoured the acknowledgments, the book cover flaps, the ISBN, you name it. If it had been like a DVD, I could have read the ‘making of’ the writing of the book. I was that into it.”
Simon Rich’s humorous stories take on the millennial generation.
A lawyer personalizes the struggle against injustice with the story of a man wrongfully convicted of murder.
Men follow their compulsions, and sometimes receive their comeuppance, in Paul Theroux’s stories.
Two Soviet Jews — an Israeli politician and a disgraced K.G.B. informer — are reunited decades after a devastating betrayal.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn show how to make a difference in the lives of the disadvantaged.
The wallcreeper of this novel’s title and its protagonist both crave freedom.
In his writing guide, the Harvard polymath Steven Pinker favors looser, more easygoing grammatical usage.
In Zephyr Teachout’s history of American political corruption, the main target is the current money-in-politics doctrine.
Jonathan Darman’s history of the 1960s weaves together accounts of the activities of Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan.
In John Sandford’s “Deadline,” dogs are being stolen and auctioned off for resale as laboratory animals.
From a distant farm to the African veldt, these picture books celebrate the limitless nature of creativity and imagination.
Two novels featuring adoption and foster care show how bonds are formed despite less than ideal circumstances.
New picture books include Lizi Boyd’s “Flashlight” and Madeline Valentine’s “George in the Dark.”
Characters in two dark urban fairy tales for middle-grade readers uncover events hidden in the past.
A collection of illustrated tales with a sinister bent, and an anthology of stories featuring otherworldly creatures.
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Leslie H. Gelb reviews Leon Panetta’s memoir, which recounts a career in public service, including stints as White House chief of staff, director of the C.I.A. and defense secretary.
Francine Prose and Ayana Mathis discuss their scariest reading experiences.
Each October brings a shelf full of Best American anthologies.
New books by Nick Jans, Rebecca Frankel and Benoit Denizet-Lewis.
Superheroes are here to stay (just turn on your TV), and five new superbooks celebrate heroes of comics, and the men (and occasional woman) who brought them to life.
This week, Christine Kenneally discusses “The Invisible History of the Human Race”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Zephyr Teachout talks about “Corruption in America”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Marilynne Robinson, whose novel “Lila” is No. 4 on the hardcover fiction list, has found success agreeable. “A Pulitzer Prize is very reassuring, and that’s a fact.”
James Risen argues that America’s open society has been a casualty of the war on terror.
New books delve into the life of a New York actor, a promoter who created a human zoo in Brooklyn and one of the most expensive hotels.
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