Candice Millard’s account of Winston Churchill’s exploits during the Boer War in 1899 vividly recounts an entitled youth who wins headlines for his brashness and bravery.
This big, loose, rangy and intensely satisfying autobiography is like one of Mr. Springsteen’s shows — ecstatic, exhausting, part séance and part keg party.
Two new collections, W.S. Merwin’s elegiac “Garden Time” and Adam Fitzgerald’s pop-inflected “George Washington,” have essential things to say about what we remember and why.
Not only would no one buy my book, but libraries in various countries were disposing of them because people wouldn’t take them for free.
Joseph Lelyveld’s “His Final Battle” explores the challenges of Franklin Roosevelt’s final months in office, including his declining health.
In “Trainwreck,” Sady Doyle writes about the women “we love to hate, mock and fear.”
In “Strangers in Their Own Land,” Arlie Russell Hochschild tries to understand the worldview of Louisiana Tea Party supporters.
The chief executive of HBO treasures his volume of John Cheever’s collected stories: “There’s a lot in there about what Kant called ‘the crooked timber of humanity.’ It’s a masterpiece.”
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
Alice Kaplan’s book about a book — Camus’s “The Stranger” — is part history, part biography and part literary criticism.
Patrick Phillips’s first nonfiction book is about a Georgia county that banished all its black citizens in 1912 and was still 99.95 percent white in 1997.
Robert Gottlieb’s memoir is an indispensable publishing history, thick with instruction and useful gossip about his dealings with famous writers.
Tracy Kidder’s book chronicles the life of Paul English, a Kayak.com founder who got rich, battled bipolar disorder and found a gratifying outlet in altruism.
The 12-year-old heroines in Affinity Konar’s affecting novel seem to have been partly inspired by Eva and Miriam Mozes, twins at Auschwitz.
