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• Books: “What It Is Like to Go to War.”

Marlantes brings candor and wrenching self-analysis to bear on his combat experiences in Vietnam, in a memoir-based meditation whose intentions are threefold: to help soldiers-to-be understand what they’re in for; to help veterans come to terms with what they’ve seen and done . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Dexter Filkins: Endgame

In the ten years since American soldiers first landed in Afghanistan, their official purpose has oscillated between building and destroying. The Americans initially went in to defeat Al Qaeda, whose soldiers had attacked the United States, and to disperse the Taliban clerics who had given the terrorist group a home . . ....

• Books: “The Lieutenant”

Grenville’s novel, based on the true story of William Dawes, who was among the soldiers accompanying the first prisoners sent to Australia, concerns Daniel Rooke, a lonely, introverted sort whose skill as an astronomer earns him a privileged position in the first colonial mission sent to New South . . ....

• Rolf Potts: The U.S. military’s reading lists.

When allegations surfaced that details in Greg Mortenson’s memoir “Three Cups of Tea” had been fabricated, some reports noted that the book, a best-seller about doing good works in Central Asia, is “required reading” for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. These reports were referring . . ....

• Michael Schulman: Staging Perry v. Schwarzenegger testimony, California Proposition 8.

Last week, as gay soldiers celebrated the demise of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the New York City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, celebrated her engagement to her longtime girlfriend at a party hosted by Cindy Adams, a smaller victory for gay rights went mostly unnoticed. Judge . . ....

• Books: Lizzie Collingham’s “The Taste of War” review.

War, Collingham writes, makes a country hungry: active-duty soldiers and defense workers have higher than normal caloric requirements, at the very moment when fighting disrupts food production. Combatants in the Second World War chose to “export wartime hunger”; some twenty million people died of starvation, often far . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Jon Lee Anderson: Sri Lanka’s brutal victory over its Tamil insurgents.

1. THE BEACH The mobile-phone video clip shows a pair of soldiers pushing a naked, blindfolded man into the frame. His hands are tied behind his back. One soldier, dressed in the uniform of the Sri Lankan Army, forces him into a sitting position on the ground, kicks him . . . (Subscription required.)...

• John Lahr: A heroic “Hamlet” and musings on mortality.

At the finale of the last “Hamlet” to be seen in New York (the 2008 Public Theatre production in Central Park), Fortinbras called for a hero’s cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark—“Go, bid the soldiers shoot”—only to have . . ....

• Goings on About Town: Dance

goatTitle-->MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY The troupe soldiers on in its quest to “contextualize” the works of Martha Graham. Performances at the Joyce will include a short narrated film filled with archival footage, the focus of which is Graham’s interest in excavating the human psyche . . ....

• Books: “True Compass”

It’s hard to pinpoint the moment in this memoir when Ted Kennedy first seems like a grownup. It’s later than it ought to be—well after his election to the Senate. You think he’s there when he’s the one who must . . ....

• Books: “Don Juan.”

In this quick and airy fantasia, the quintessential womanizer becomes instead a sad and mostly passive man, possessing a certain magnetism but emphatically not a seducer, who feels pursued by time itself. Handke’s multilayered structure has a sympathetic narrator relaying Don Juan’s account of travel through . . ....

• How to Beat Your Age With Testosterone Treatment

If you're a man, testosterones are what make your world go round. They're the amazing little soldiers in your body that help you feel and look young....

• Nick Laird: “Epithalamium.”

You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit. I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational. If I’m iniquity then you’re theft. One of us is supercalifragilistic. If I’m the most insane disgusting filth you’re hardly curiosa. You&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Nick Laird: “Epithalamium.”

You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit. I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational. If I’m iniquity then you’re theft. One of us is supercalifragilistic. If I’m the most insane disgusting filth you’re hardly curiosa. You&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish,” review.

Coming of age in Milwaukee as a young Muslim, Hayat Shah experiences a spiritual and sexual awakening when Mina, his mother’s bewitching and devout best friend, comes to stay with the Shah family after a brutal divorce. Confused and jealous, Hayat leaves his mark on Mina as well . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Ripple Effect.”

In this account, the author patiently lays out the staggering extent of the world’s water problems. Sewage, fertilizers, industrial chemicals, plastics, paint, drugs, and hand soap, among other contaminants, find their way into the world’s rivers every day. They affect our drinking water in ways that . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Blood’s a Rover”

The final novel of Ellroy’s “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy, following “American Tabloid” and “The Cold Six Thousand,” is a fittingly crazed and violent account of the years 1968 to 1972. Alternating chapters follow three henchmen with ties to a labyrinth of interconnected schemes . . ....

• Books: “Parisians.”

Robb’s zesty chronicle of the City of Light is neither a people’s history nor a prince’s. Told in layers through the eyes of the metropolis’s citizens, it encompasses Proust and Pompidou, Hitler and Napoleon, architects and bohemians, alchemists and prostitutes. Throughout, the . . ....

• Books: “[sic]” review.

Intended as a “riposte to the literature of disease”—inspirational stories in which illness presents an opportunity to discover how beautiful life actually is—Cody’s memoir is a manic and often dispiriting account of a young Manhattan composer’s struggle with cancer. Drawn . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “[sic]” review.

Intended as a “riposte to the literature of disease”—inspirational stories in which illness presents an opportunity to discover how beautiful life actually is—Cody’s memoir is a manic and often dispiriting account of a young Manhattan composer’s struggle with cancer. Drawn . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Fiction Ruined My Family” review.

Darst’s father spent his entire life planning to write a novel, and made a career of avoiding steady work, leaving his family in relative poverty. This memoir is a darkly comic account of a childhood spent in the shadow of a well-meaning father’s literary aspirations . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Roger Crowley’s “City of Fortune,” review.

Crowley, a historian of Mediterranean conflicts, offers a brisk account of the rise of the Venetian Republic, which in the Middle Ages was “a shifting, supple matrix of interchanging locations, flexible as a steel net.” Venice’s power, at its height, extended along both shores of the . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Changeling.”

Oe’s latest novel to be translated into English is an essayistic, and often frankly autobiographical, examination of the narrator’s relationship with his brother-in-law Goro, a filmmaker, and the emotional aftermath of Goro’s suicide. (Oe’s brother-in-law, the famous Japanese . . ....

• Books: “Caleb’s Crossing.”

In previous novels, Brooks has conjured Restoration England, Civil War America, and Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. Here she filters the early Colonial era through the eyes of a restless minister’s daughter growing up on the island known today as Martha’s Vineyard. Despite her father&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Reviewers’ favorites from 2010.

NONFICTION <!-- When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, by Gal Beckerman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $30). Soviet Jewry’s underground support networks. <!-- The Icarus Syndrome, by Peter Beinart (Harper . . ....

• Books: “Princess Noire.”

8220;Princess Noire” was the original, unused title of Nina Simone’s autobiography, and Cohodas duly appropriates it for her account of the singer’s life and career. Simone, born Eunice Waymon and nurtured as a child prodigy, devoted her early years to classical piano. After a . . ....

• Books: “Hell”

Hatcher McCord is a news anchor with an unusual assignment: to ask Hell’s tortured celebrity denizens, “Why do you think you’re here?” In this compelling surrealist romp, McCord is chauffeured through Hell’s sulfurous streets by Richard Nixon in Satan’s own . . ....

• Silvia Killingsworth: Tortilleria Nixtamal, in Queens.

8220;You can’t get good Mexican food in New York” is a common refrain in this city, and, for the most part, it’s true—you can get Mexican food that isn’t very good, or good food that isn’t very Mexican . . ....