Books

Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance

A new adaptation of the Mo Willems book “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” uses animation and rock songs to tell a story about self-expression and acceptance.

Newly Published, From Yan Lianke to Hurricane Maria

A selection of books published this week.

Fiction

How Would Your Life Change if You Knew When It Would End?

In Nikki Erlick’s debut novel, “The Measure,” all adults can find out how much time they have left.

Fiction

In a Remote Society, Motherhood Is Both Prize and Peril

Like her first novel, “Saint X,” Alexis Schaitkin’s “Elsewhere” circles around the theme of female disappearance.

The Disrupter’s Disrupter Tells Us to Ignore Our Instincts

James Bridle’s “Ways of Being” encourages readers to look for intelligence outside the brain box.

The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read

The author Cory Silverberg bucks decades of conventional wisdom on how to teach kids about intimacy.

Nonfiction

A True-Crime Story That Pits Polygamists Against Drug Lords

In her ninth book, “The Colony,” the veteran journalist Sally Denton takes readers across the border to a Mormon sect in Mexico.

Fiction

The Dystopia Has Just Arrived

Davey Davis’s new novel, “X,” is a queer noir set in a near-future world full of inexplicable violence, “exported” undesirables and an encyclopedia’s worth of sexual deviance.

Over Decades, Three Friends Learn the Value of Selfishness

Tomi Obaro’s debut novel, “Dele Weds Destiny,” follows the intersecting lives of three very different women from college to middle age.

Nonfiction

Necromancers, Killers and Presidents, Summoned From the Pages of History

Did Abraham Lincoln, like John Wilkes Booth, ever find solace in spiritualism?