Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis. By Kevin Peraino ...

Ian Buruma begins with a good question. The Dutch intellectual, now living and teaching at Bard College in New York, wonders why so many Americans, but so few Europeans, see religion as a boon to ...

Susan Sheehan won the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” When an author uncovers a ­half-century’s worth of hidden correspondence between his ...