The New York Times Book Review

................. in the Book Review

'Falling Out of Time'

By DAVID GROSSMAN. Translated by JESSICA COHEN.
Reviewed by EDWARD HIRSCH

David Grossman's book in verse is an intimate study of grief and mourning.

'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'

By PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURT

Patricia Lockwood's second poetry collection continues her interrogation of gender, nature and sexuality.

Essay

Sing to Me, O Muse (But Keep It Brief)

By DAVID LEHMAN

Thoughts on the state of poetry in the age of Twitter.

Bill Hader: By the Book

The actor and comedian, a star of the forthcoming "The Skeleton Twins," likes reading Dostoyevsky: "I didn't really go to college, which is probably why I enjoy reading the classics."

·         By the Book: Archive

'Friendship'

By EMILY GOULD
Reviewed by KATIE ARNOLD-RATLIFF

Young women grapple with jobs, men and each other in the blogger Emily Gould's first novel.

'Fear'

By GABRIEL CHEVALLIER. Translated by MALCOLM IMRIE.
Reviewed by THOMAS KENEALLY

Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel about serving on the front lines of World War I.

'Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce'

By SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS
Reviewed by MAUREEN DOWD

A second volume of the life of Clare Boothe Luce: playwright, screenwriter, editor, ­congresswoman, ambassador and presidential adviser.

'Midnight in Europe'

By ALAN FURST
Reviewed by CHARLES FINCH

The hero of Alan Furst's new espionage novel risks his life for the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.

'The People's Platform'

By ASTRA TAYLOR
Reviewed by TIM WU

The Internet was hailed as a digital democracy, but has resulted in inequities and concentrations of power.

Open Book

A Century of Verse

By JOHN WILLIAMS

Will the work of today's bards age as well as the last century's best?

Sketchbook | Grant Snider

The Writers' Retreat

A tour of the aspiration tower, the brainstorm rotunda and other hot spots.