Welcome to Sunday. Spend a little time with some of the best book reviews and features of the past week.

A tour of the Book Review

July 20 marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the moon, an event that has inspired books ever since, including at least a dozen coming out this year. Ahead of the official commemoration, the historian Jill Lepore reviews seven of these books on our cover this week, looking into the context of the moon landing at the time, as well as the reverberations of that achievement today.

Lepore is on the podcast this week, along with Julie Satow, who talks about her new book about the history of the Plaza Hotel.

Also in this issue, new fiction from Karen Russell, Randy Boyagoda, Leah Hager Cohen and Elias Khoury.

The news of the week

The advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Donald J. Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in her new book, “What Do We Need Men For?,” due out next month. Carroll spoke about her decision to make her allegations public: “I just thought, it’s time, I owe it to my beloved readers. I can’t keep up this facade.”