By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Roszak popularized the term “counterculture” in referring to a generation that rebelled against war and sought new ways of thinking.
By CHARLES McGRATH
Donald Ray Pollock has followed his 2008 short-story collection, “Knockemstiff,” with a novel, also set in the Ohio town of that redolent name.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
By JASON ZINOMAN
Reviewed by TY BURR
“Shock Value” tells the story of how the seminal shockers of the late 1960s and early ’70s came to be and how a handful of films and filmmakers brought the scary horror movies back to life.
By JULIE BOSMAN
Rock ’n’ roll memoirs are selling well for publishers and bring large advances for their authors.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
By PETER MANSO
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
The writer Peter Manso recounts a Cape Cod murder case that wound up involving him.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
A show at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington traces the veneration of First Folios as much as objects as literature.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
By WILL LAVENDER
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
In Will Lavender’s second novel, “Dominance,” a Vermont college becomes the setting for a copycat murder.
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
Four new picture books about the sometimes difficult realities of caring for a pet.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
By BARRY ESTABROOK
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
In “Tomatoland,” Barry Estabrook delivers a withering criticism of the tactics of the tomato industry in South Florida, where the soil is as devoid of plant nutrients as a pile of moon rocks.
By LARRY ROHTER
Yoani Sánchez, a 35-year-old writer in Havana, has increasingly drawn attention as a chronicler of daily life under Castro.