In keeping with the theory of focusing upon a single opponent, Golwalkar made Muslims the grotesque projection of all imaginable vices and dreads, the cause of tyranny in the past and a threat to ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Formed by New Orleans expatriates in Los Angeles in the 1990s, the Drifters’ multiple singers and songwriters crafted four ...