In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said.
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Jeff VanderMeer, known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.
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From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”
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The brightest minds explore the issue at every level, from the levers that control inflation to the best way to achieve work-life balance.
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The Gadfly Journalist Who Punched Far Above His Weight
With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.
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An Exile Revisits the Squalor and Grandeur of 1960s Italy
Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.
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Forgery, Fraud and Absinthe’s Enduring Mystique
Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.
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Why Us vs. Them Is Not Such a Bad Way to See the World
Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.
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Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer. 2 New Books Fan the Flames.
Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
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Randy Newman Is Great. He Deserved a Better Biography Than This.
A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.
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Scoops, Dupes and Kooks: A History of The New York Post
A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.
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From Melania Trump: Modeling, Motherhood and a Brazen Whitewash of a Presidency
Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.
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Michel Houellebecq’s Outlook for an Ailing France: C’est Fini
In what the author says is his last novel, both a family and a society are on the verge of collapse.
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Look closely to uncover the recent memoirs lurking in this passage of text.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
When he was a teenager, Aciman’s family was turned out of Egypt and landed in Italy. In a beguiling new memoir, “Roman Year,” he revisits a lost era.
By Leah Greenblatt
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
By David Kortava
Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
By Marc Tracy
A haunted author; haunted dolls.
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
By Sarah Lyall
A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.
By Richard Kreitner
In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.
By Linda Villarosa
A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.
By Koren Shadmi
“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”
By Ruth Franklin
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