Photo Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times nonfiction America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence Elliott Currie’s “A Peculiar Indifference” traces the history of violence in Black communities and the reasons for it. By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photo Credit Erin Schaff/The New York Times The Mysteries of the American-Saudi Alliance Two new books, David H. Rundell’s “Vision or Mirage” and Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck’s “Blood and Oil,” offer insights into an enigmatic country. By Kenneth M. Pollack
Photo Credit Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading. By Elizabeth A. Harris
Photo Credit Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out all right, all right, all right. By Dave Itzkoff
Photo Credit Thoka Mayer Globetrotting Your sneak preview of books coming out in 2020 from around the world, updated each season. By The New York Times , Gray Beltran , Rebecca Lieberman and Tammy Tarng
By the Book Photo Credit Jillian Tamaki Just Like You, Claire Messud Never Read ‘A Brief History of Time’ “I bought it because everyone else did, I guess.”
Recommendations Photo Credit What to Read Right Now Book recommendations from editors at the New York Times Book Review.
The Book Review Podcast Photo Credit The Ottoman Empire’s Influence on the Present Day Alan Mikhail talks about “God’s Shadow,” and Benjamin Lorr discusses “The Secret Life of Groceries.”
Best Sellers Photo Credit Best-Seller Lists: Oct. 25, 2020 All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
Photo Credit . An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists To research and write “Culture Warlords,” Talia Lavin created fake identities and interacted with far-right communities online. By Jennifer Szalai
Photo Credit . John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case In “A Time for Mercy,” the small-town Mississippi lawyer defends a teenager who killed his mother’s abusive boyfriend. By Sarah Lyall
Photo Credit . Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are In “The Silence,” two wealthy couples watch the Super Bowl together as power grids mysteriously go down all over the world. By Dwight Garner
Photo Credit . Modern Science Didn’t Appear Until the 17th Century. What Took So Long? In “The Knowledge Machine,” the philosopher Michael Strevens says that there is something fundamentally irrational and even “inhuman” about the scientific method. By Jennifer Szalai
Photo Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images In ‘Fauci,’ a Doctor Whose Work and Mission Have Been Shaped by Politics Michael Specter’s audiobook biography shapes the story of Anthony Fauci into a stirring, and very American, morality play. By Parul Sehgal