By BARBARA EHRENREICH
"Rise of the Robots" explores how technology threatens even the nimblest and most expensively educated, and "Shadow Work" shines light on the increase of unpaid work.
The historian and author, most recently, of "The Quartet" keeps Plato, Kant, Hume, Locke and Nietzsche on his shelves. "Just looking over at them reminds me that once upon a time I was a very serious young man."
By ASHLEE VANCE
Reviewed by JON GERTNER
After a series of tech ventures, Elon Musk has turned to electric cars and space travel.
By ANNE ENRIGHT
Reviewed by DAVID LEAVITT
An Irish family disperses, reuniting for what might be a final holiday in the family home.
By OLIVER SACKS
Reviewed by ANDREW SOLOMON
In this memoir, Oliver Sacks abandons the restraint that characterized his earlier accounts and reveals his vulnerabilities.
By CYNAN JONES
Reviewed by EVIE WYLD
The fates of two men - a badger baiter and a grieving sheep farmer - converge in rural Wales.
Audiobooks
By DANIEL HANDLER
Two novels offer a deadpan mix of comedy, menace and the just plain odd.
By MARC GOODMAN. Read by ROBERTSON DEAN.
Reviewed by JENNA WORTHAM
Emerging technologies can easily be turned against us, a cybersecurity expert warns.
By JO NESBO. Read by PATTI SMITH.
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON
Jo Nesbo's latest protagonist is a contract killer with a problem.
On Poetry
By DAVID ORR
Shouldn't it be easier to listen to poetry?
By AMANDA FILIPACCHI. Read by CHRISTINA DELAINE.
Reviewed by SARAH LYALL
The heroine of this novel must deal with a beauty so extreme that she must conceal it.
By LARRY KRAMER
Reviewed by JOHN SUTHERLAND
H.I.V. has been with us all along, and is even a character in Larry Kramer's novel of American history.
By RENATA ADLER
Reviewed by EMILY WITT
Over three decades of Renata Adler's essays, criticism and long-form journalism.
By BRUCE BARCOTT
Reviewed by P. J. O'ROURKE
More than 40 years after Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, America is rethinking its relationship to marijuana.
By AMIT CHAUDHURI
Reviewed by MICHAEL GORRA
Strolling in London with his uncle offers a student an escape from loneliness.
By ANDREA GILLIES
Reviewed by DYLAN LANDIS
A woman loves the men she grew up with and marries one.
By STEVEN MILLHAUSER
Reviewed by TANIA JAMES
Ordinary lives are touched by myth in Steven Millhauser's tales.
By LANGDON HAMMER
Reviewed by JAY PARINI
A biography of James Merrill looks at the work that grew from his life, and at his literary collaboration with a longtime partner.
By PETER LONGERICH. Translated by ALAN BANCE, JEREMY NOAKES and LESLEY SHARPE.
Reviewed by JAMES J. SHEEHAN
The implausible career of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, who followed the Führer even in death.
By DAN POPE
Reviewed by LAUREN ACAMPORA
A move to the suburbs sets off a spate of reckless behavior.
By KARL TARO GREENFELD
Reviewed by J. ROBERT LENNON
Debt and bad credit doom two families to a life of squatting.
By KEVIN M. KRUSE
Reviewed by MICHAEL KAZIN
A historian considers how and why Americans make such a conspicuous display of their faith.
Crime
By MARILYN STASIO
Mosley breaks every rule in the private-detective-story stylebook in his new mystery
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