Books on race and antiracism have sold well over the past year. Now titles like “I Can’t Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America” and “Race Crazy” are coming.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author of “Daisy Jones & the Six” and one of this summer’s hits, “Malibu Rising,” is tapping into the desire among readers (and Hollywood) for escapism plus complexity.
In “Four Thousand Weeks,” a self-help book skeptical of self-help, Oliver Burkeman offers perspective on how we might spend the fleeting time that we get.
The pandemic memoir “American Crisis” has become a financial and ethical headache for Penguin Random House, dragging the company into the scandals that prompted the governor’s resignation announcement.
Spencer Ackerman’s narrative of the last 20 years offers a discerning argument about the American response to 9/11 and the effect it had on the country’s politics.
In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Rebecca Donner writes about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American woman who was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime.
Three new books about affliction — Fred D’Aguiar’s “Year of Plagues,” Jan Grue’s “I Live a Life Like Yours” and James Tate Hill’s “Blind Man’s Bluff” — have a lot to say about desire, pain, depression and many other topics.
