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• Books: “Curfewed Night.”

Peer’s memoir of Kashmir chronicles a “fairy-tale childhood of the eighties”—samovars of kahwa tea drunk in paddy fields beneath the Himalayas—that gives way to “the horror of the nineties”: India’s rigging of the 1987 state elections and . . ....

• James Wood: Teju Cole’s prismatic début novel, “Open City.”

Publishers now pitch their books like Hollywood concepts, so Teju Cole’s first novel, “Open City” (Random House; $25), is being offered as especially appealing to “readers of Joseph O’Neill and Zadie Smith,” and written in a prose that “will remind . . ....

• Books: “Jealousy.”

Millet’s previous memoir, “The Sexual Life of Catherine M.,” was a graphic résumé of her history in libertinism, including trysts with, by her own count, at least forty-nine partners. This follow-up is a chronicle of the “irreversible unravelling of my . . ....

• Hilton Als: Diane Keaton’s “Then Again.”

Part of what makes Diane Keaton’s memoir, “Then Again,” truly amazing is that she does away with the star’s “me” and replaces it with a daughter’s “I.” Writing in a collaboration of sorts with her late mother, Dorothy . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Feeding on Dreams” review.

This latest memoir by the Chilean-American author and former Allende adviser resumes the tale of his countless “dislocations” since fleeing Chile, in 1973. Dorfman shuttles among three continents and two languages, adrift in “an eternal victimhood of regret.” The resulting “wrath” may help . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Jeanette Winterson’s “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” review.

Winterson’s memoir relays the lesson, learned early, that a mother is “labyrinth-like and vengeful.” Her birth mother abandoned her; her adoptive mother chided, “The Devil led us to the wrong crib.” A harrowing childhood followed: nights locked out of the house, a three . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Jeanette Winterson’s “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” review.

Winterson’s memoir relays the lesson, learned early, that a mother is “labyrinth-like and vengeful.” Her birth mother abandoned her; her adoptive mother chided, “The Devil led us to the wrong crib.” A harrowing childhood followed: nights locked out of the house, a three . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Bird Cloud.”

Proulx’s memoir chronicles her years-long quest to build a “final home” in the harsh Wyoming landscape that has provided a setting for much of her fiction. The project is plagued by obstacles, and Proulx’s enthusiasm is fickle. “I still do not know . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Bird Cloud.”

Proulx’s memoir chronicles her years-long quest to build a “final home” in the harsh Wyoming landscape that has provided a setting for much of her fiction. The project is plagued by obstacles, and Proulx’s enthusiasm is fickle. “I still do not know . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Verdi’s Shakespeare” review.

In the essays collected here, Wills examines how Verdi—who, though he did not read English, “adored Shakespeare”—composed and staged “Macbeth,” “Otello,” and “Falstaff,” all “solid masterpieces,” and the latter two “arguably the greatest things he . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Lit”

This affecting memoir—the third in a series that includes “The Liar’s Club” and “Cherry”—documents Karr’s alcoholism, the breakdown of her marriage, and the unlikely redemption she finds in the Catholic Church. Chased out of Texas by the memories . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “The Future,” “Another Earth,” and “Cowboys & Aliens.”

To call a movie “The Future” is, if you think about it, inspired. In any city where the film is playing, people will say to one another, “Have you seen ‘The Future’? ” If the title is doomed to cause misunderstanding, that is part of . . ....

• Mike Peed: “Edi & the Wolf,” in the East Village.

paragraph class="noindent">At this new Austrian tavern, wedged into an increasingly companionable stretch of Alphabet City, “Edi” is pronounced “Eddie” and “the Wolf” does not refer to Harvey Keitel’s character in “Pulp Fiction.” These are the nicknames of the . . ....

• Books: “Townie.”

This charged memoir by the author of “House of Sand and Fog” begins as his parents’ marriage unravels, and his father, an acclaimed writer, leaves his mother struggling to support four kids. Living in poor towns in northern Massachusetts, Dubus and his siblings “roamed the neighborhoods . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “William Golding.”

Carey’s thorough and illuminating biography, the first of Golding, also serves as a crucial introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s output. Golding’s novels, which include “The Inheritors,” “Pincher Martin,” and “Darkness Visible,” have always stood in the . . ....

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Christopher Noxon: Flynn McGarry, 13 year-old chef.

One recent Friday afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, Flynn McGarry crept into a neighbor’s yard. McGarry, who is thirteen, was on an urgent mission. “Rosemary flowers,” he said. “I saw them growing there and I knew they’d be amazing in my farro . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “A Voice from Old New York.”

Auchincloss’s posthumous book returns to the childhood territory covered in his classic memoir “A Writer’s Capital.” The short chapters on genealogy (his father was a third cousin of F.D.R.), education (Groton, Yale), and occupation (his mother discouraged him from writing) make up a mosaic . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “A Voice from Old New York.”

Auchincloss’s posthumous book returns to the childhood territory covered in his classic memoir “A Writer’s Capital.” The short chapters on genealogy (his father was a third cousin of F.D.R.), education (Groton, Yale), and occupation (his mother discouraged him from writing) make up a mosaic . . . (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: “[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.)...

• Richard Brody: Jia Zhangke’s “24 City” and the Dardennes’s “Lorna’s Silence.”

paragraph class="noindent">There’s a crisis of naturalism in the contemporary cinema, resulting from the presumptively objective, quasi-documentary style with which politically engaged filmmakers have been getting their messages out. The Chinese director Jia Zhangke—as seen in his latest film, “24 City” (Cinema . . ....

• Books: “Young Romantics.”

Hay examines the “turbulent communal existence” of the English Romantic poets, astutely parsing the intricate circumstances that led to this network’s distinctive creative output; she shows, for instance, that “Frankenstein” emerged not merely out of fireside “conversations about ghosts and galvanism” but . . ....

• Books: Victor Cha’s “The Impossible State” review.

8220;Industrialized,” “urbanized,” and “high tech” are not words one typically associates with North Korea. Yet, in the wake of the Second World War, as China and the U.S.S.R. vied for influence in the Korean peninsula, it was just that. Since then, political paranoia, economic . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks

goatTitle-->“WORD FOR WORD” Bryant Park’s reading series continues with Samantha Bee, a correspondent for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” who will be discussing her memoir, “I Know I Am, But What Are You?” (Sixth Ave. at 42nd St. For more . . ....

• David Denby: Sidney Lumet’s “Prince of the City”

Of Sidney Lumet’s trilogy of films about police corruption in New York—“Serpico” (1973), “Prince of the City” (1981), and “Q. & A.” (1990)—the middle film (screening on July 24 at Film Society of Lincoln Center) is probably the . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “City Boy”

White’s second volume of memoirs covers the sixties and seventies, when living in New York was “something like a religious vocation, full of obvious penances and rarefied rewards.” White relished the artistic and social freedom afforded by the city’s isolation from the rest of . . ....