HAMNET: A Novel of the Plague, by Maggie O’Farrell. (Vintage, 320 pp., $16.95.) At the center of this National Book Critics Circle Award winner — one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2020 — is the question of why Shakespeare may have titled his most famous play for his son, who died at age 11. According to our reviewer, Geraldine Brooks, O’Farrell’s novel is at once about “the transfiguration of life into art” and a “master class” in how the author herself does it.
ONE MIGHTY AND IRRESISTIBLE TIDE: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965, by Jia Lynn Yang. (Norton, 336 pp., $17.95.) Yang, now The Times’s national editor, chronicles the long, hard road to passage of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, which opened America’s doors to Asian immigrants like her father.
EXERCISE OF POWER: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World, by Robert M. Gates. (Vintage, 464 pp., $18.) Director of the C.I.A. under George H. W. Bush and secretary of defense under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Gates offers, as our reviewer, Gideon Rose, put it, “the most accurate record available of recent American security policy, the most incisive critique of that policy and the most sensible guide to what should come next.”
IN PRAISE OF WALKING: A New Scientific Exploration, by Shane O’Mara. (Norton, 224 pp., $15.95.) Regular walking benefits society as well as individuals, the professor of experimental brain research argues. By improving our mood, clarity of thought and creativity, it enhances our connection to the “social, urban and natural worlds.”
THE MOMENT OF TENDERNESS, by Madeleine L’Engle. (Grand Central, 336 pp., $15.99.) Our reviewer, Heidi Pitlor, referred to these short stories — written before “A Wrinkle in Time” and among 40 found by L’Engle’s granddaughter after her death — as “postcards” from L’Engle’s “artistic, spiritual and emotional evolution.” The paperback edition features one additional never-before-published story.
ALL THE WAY TO THE TIGERS: A Memoir, by Mary Morris. (Anchor, 240 pp., $17.) The question Morris asks of her life — “How do we walk a thin line between sane and savage, between wild and tame?” — is the “beating heart” of this travel memoir that “whizzes” between America and India. In our reviewer Deborah Levy’s words, it suffers only from being “gently prodded” rather than “ripped out,” still “pulsing and warm.”
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