In “Scarred,” Sarah Edmondson — once a high-ranking Nxivm member — describes her years in the group.
“Guts,” Raina Telgemeier’s warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home for parents and children trying to climb out of the abyss of worry.
In “Red at the Bone,” the effects of an unplanned teenage pregnancy ripple through three generations of a Brooklyn family.
The terror doesn’t come from ghosts or fiends or clowns — it’s ordinary people, folks just like you and me, who are the evil ones.
In “An American Sunrise,” Joy Harjo draws on her Muscogee Creek heritage to celebrate indigenous traditions and to mourn their passing.
For the characters in Edwidge Danticat’s new story collection, “Everything Inside,” the pull of their native land is as complex as it is strong.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk about their new book, “She Said,” and Ian Urbina discusses “The Outlaw Ocean.”
“The Outlaw Ocean,” the journalist Ian Urbina’s chronicle of offshore crime, ranges from Somalia to the Philippines to the Antarctic.
Miller’s latest historical novel, “Now We Shall Be Entirely Free,” plunges readers deep into the 18th-century England of the Peninsular War.
The scholar and author, whose new book is “Breathe: A Letter to My Sons,” is “not engaged by books which I think of as ‘parlor people’ literature.”
Higher education was meant to be a great equalizer. Paul Tough’s “The Years That Matter Most” suggests that colleges and universities are exacerbating inequality, not reducing it.
Petina Gappah’s novel “Out of Darkness, Shining Light” is narrated by the Africans who carried the explorer’s corpse to the coast, a journey of 1,500 miles.
In her evocative memoir, “Homesick,” Jennifer Croft recalls, in words and images, her troubled childhood and the solace she found in language.
In his new essay collection, “We Are the Weather,” Jonathan Safran Foer turns his attention to the climate crisis. Mark Bittman weighs in.
Four poetry collections — “Be Recorder,” by Carmen Giménez Smith; “Odes to Lithium,” by Shira Erlichman; “Grief Sequence,” by Prageeta Sharma; and “Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers,” by Jake Skeets — explore narratives of belonging and identity.
The Canadian poet Steven Price has written a novel, “Lampedusa,” about the creation of one of Italy’s iconic works of fiction, “The Leopard.”
In new books, Naomi Klein and Jeremy Rifkin take very different approaches to A.O.C.’s progressive climate proposal.
In “Coventry,” the British author of the widely admired “Outline” trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision.
In Stella Tillyard’s novel “Call Upon the Water,” a 17th-century Dutch engineer sets out to drain the English fenlands, but finds his spirit drained instead.
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A new account by the New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly reinvestigates the allegations of sexual misconduct against the justice.
She found inspiration in her Georgia upbringing and in Atlanta’s evolution into a major postwar city.
Twenty-one years ago, Dr. Seuss’ widow discovered some unpublished manuscripts, including one that has become “Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum,” illustrated by Andrew Joyner.
In Laurel Snyder’s “My Jasper June,” the truth is complicated, but the lifesaving power of friendship never flickers.
