New York Times Book Reviews

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

In “Where Reasons End,” an unnamed narrator plumbs the nature of suffering — and the limits of language — in a dialogue with the child she mourns.

In the latest from Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, Shaun Tan and others, a boy and his dog head to the moon, a crab bakes cakes and a cat foils a bakery break-in.

Benjamin Dreyer sees language the way an epicure sees food. And he finds sloppiness everywhere he looks.

An illustrated map of the authorial life.

Disappearances link the works of Claire Adam, Madhuri Vijay, Juliet Lapidos and James Charlesworth: missing persons, missing manuscripts and missed connections.

New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).

In Tom Barbash’s “The Dakota Winters,” a searching young man finds an unlikely companion in the former Beatle’s last year of life.

Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.

The Book Review’s past sheds light on the books of the present. This week: James Wood on the Chilean author’s legacy.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In “Maid,” Stephanie Land describes what it’s like to be a single mother struggling to survive.

Michiko Kakutani reviews “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first volume of Marlon James’s “Dark Star” trilogy. The novel is packed with dizzying references fused into something new and startling.

Women and Latinx authors and illustrators made a strong showing in this year’s prestigious honors, as diversity in children’s books is becoming more evident.

Deborah E. Lipstadt’s “Antisemitism: Here and Now” charts the new guises of an enduring hatred.

In “The Weight of a Piano,” Chris Cander follows the members of a family from Russia to California and traces the way music shadows their memories.

The division published best-selling books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trevor Noah and more. Its closing is the latest move by Penguin Random House to streamline operations.

The British editor and writer, who died last week at 101, modeled a life of fierce, free-spirited independence.

In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform’s troubling rise to global behemoth.