Book Reviews

Nigel Hamilton’s “War and Peace,” the third volume of his Roosevelt trilogy, takes a revisionist look at the two wartime partners.

Shalini Shankar’s “Beeline” explores the stakes of these intense, “brain-sport” championships on Generation Z.

The craftsmen in Bridget Collins’s novel “The Binding” are able to remove a person’s memories and create books full of captured experiences.

“Becoming Dr. Seuss,” a new biography of Theodor Geisel by Brian Jay Jones, chronicles the famous children’s book author’s influential career, zany imagination and original rhyme schemes.

In “Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone,” Astra Taylor examines the ways, both good and bad, the concept has been defended, defined and put into practice.

In Joanne Ramos’s “The Farm,” the bodies of the less privileged “host” the unborn babies of the ultrarich.

Trent Dalton used his own biography as inspiration for his debut novel.

In “Furious Hours,” Casey Cep investigates the Alabama murder case that was to have been the focus of Lee’s second book — as well as the famously reclusive writer herself, plumbing the mystery of her 50-year silence.

The third novel in her seasonal quartet — consumed with Brexit, refugee detention, social media — suggests we’re hurtling toward the horrific.

Joshua Furst’s second novel tells the story of a radical from the perspective of his son.

New titles to watch for in May, a Canadian bookstore chain heads to the U.S. and more.

Véronique Olmi’s novel “Bakhita” reimagines the real-life story of St. Josephine Bakhita, captured as a child in Darfur and liberated in Venice.

Ian Kershaw’s “The Global Age” looks back on the extraordinary achievements of the recent past.

Mitchell Zuckoff’s “Fall and Rise” is a moment-to-moment re-creation of the events of 9/11, with a focus on the people most closely affected.

The food writer and author, most recently, of the memoir “Save Me the Plums” was 10 when she read Henry Miller. “If it’s over her head, she simply won’t understand it,” her mother said.

Lalami discusses her new novel, and Jenny Odell talks about “How to Do Nothing.”

In refreshingly brief new novels, kids solve family mysteries, save younger siblings and help a grandparent break out of a hospital.

That quote from Harlan Ellison illustrates — quite colorfully — the long-smoldering genre snobbery debate that Ian McEwan recently entered.

“The Creativity Code,” “Deep Medicine” and “Talk to Me” together reveal the wide range of influence technology does, should and will have on the human condition.

The illustrator Sergio García Sánchez takes on Daniel Defoe’s classic, capturing the narrative’s range in a single image.