In Max Porter’s “Lanny” — equal parts fairy tale, domestic drama and fable — a mischievous little boy goes missing.
The young heroine of Dylan Meconis’s graphic novel “Queen of the Sea” learns how suddenly, and ruthlessly, fortune can turn a queen into a pawn.
“The Porpoise,” with a nod to Shakespeare and the Greeks, updates the legend of Apollonius with a new focus on the story’s women.
Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes” is a modern morality tale, a creepy, scary novel about the corrosive effects of money and power.
Claire Lombardo’s debut, “The Most Fun We Ever Had,” follows a family of four daughters through the decades.
Anita Anand’s “The Patient Assassin” documents the life of a peripatetic Indian laborer who waited decades for a chance to kill an official of the Raj.
Murdoch was the rare kind of great, buoyant, confident writer who was in touch with both animal and intellectual instincts.
A selection of recent books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
E. Jean Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine, said in a CNN interview on Monday that she fought back when Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room.
After a new round of talks broke down, one of the major talent agencies sued the writers’ over their decision to fire their agents.
In a two-part memoir, “My Parents/This Does Not Belong to You,” Aleksandar Hemon shows how Bosnia and its wartime strife have shaped a life of exile.
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
Juliet Escoria’s “Juliet the Maniac” sees the life of a bipolar teenager in gut-wrenching fragments.
Michael Bennet’s “The Land of Flickering Lights” is a call to end the partisan stalemate in Washington.
She published her first novel at 50, and her heroines were invariably rich, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful.
Big chains once posed a threat, but independents are thriving by hosting events, adding nonbook merchandise and becoming community hubs.
Carl Hulse’s “Confirmation Bias” recounts the recent battles to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat.
Revisiting the moon landing ahead of its anniversary, the return of Jackson Brodie and more.
President Trump said he had “no idea” who Ms. Carroll was in comments to reporters outside the White House on Saturday.
In her forthcoming book “What Do We Need Men For?,” the Elle advice columnist says the president assaulted her in the 1990s.
Lepore discusses several new books about the Apollo 11 mission, and Julie Satow talks about the history of the Plaza Hotel.
We all have, because few things are as magnetic as a pair of close companions.
Readers respond to recent reviews in the Sunday Book Review about domestic violence, the state of conservatism in America and more.
Mr. Weissmann appears to be the first prosecutor on the special counsel’s team to agree to write a book, though it is not clear how much he will reveal.
The author Carlos Ruiz Zafón offers a travel guide to his hometown with a darker spin on some familiar spots.
The illustrator Tamara Shopsin offers her take on lines from the poetry of David Berman.
Claire Lombardo, whose debut novel “The Most Fun We Ever Had” follows a family shaken by secrets, talks about shifting from social work to fiction and how she wrote about what she doesn’t know.
Sometimes kids need stories about the stuff they know already: how — and why — to hold hands. How — and why — to read books. How to be a good friend.
“The White Devil’s Daughters,” by Julia Flynn Siler, recounts the story of the crusading women (and a few men) who helped rescue thousands of young Chinese slaves between the 1870s and the 1930s.
Can moral philosophy teach us the best way to live?
A quartet of first fiction offers a range of experiences: urban rambles, immigrant strife, wartime drama and the unraveling of a mysterious crime.
“Sisters and Rebels” by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall delivers a nuanced portrait of the Lumpkin sisters, who responded to their Southern family history in powerful and public ways.
Her latest novel, “Big Sky,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. Rounding out the group: a Japanese puzzle mystery and Gothic and summer resort thrillers.
In his latest book, “Children of the Ghetto,” Elias Khoury explores the ways an original trauma of dislocation and death has shaped Palestinian identity.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“More Than Enough,” a memoir from the “Project Runway” judge and former Teen Vogue editor in chief, debuts on the nonfiction list this week at No. 11.
In “The History of Living Forever,” by Jake Wolff, a teenager’s first love affair becomes entangled with a quest for immortality.
The two discuss their collaboration, which introduces a new villain, Cadaverous, and how the project came to be.
“In West Mills,” by De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and “The Gone Dead,” by Chanelle Benz, serve up timeless Southern stories.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The New York Times Magazine writer reflected on how journalism prepared her to write a novel.
The Scottish crime writer, whose new book is “Conviction,” is drawn to “flawed characters asking big questions and taking action. … That said, I will read, literally, anything.”
The annual literary festival, which takes place in September, announced its initial roster of participating writers.
Society generally considered women to be women and men to be men in early-20th-century France. Cahun’s work protested gender and sexual norms, and has become increasingly relevant.
“My Parents: An Introduction” and “This Does Not Belong to You” are two memoirs in one volume, covering Hemon’s youth in Yugoslavia and his parents’ immigration to Canada.
He chaperoned the works of dozens of writers at Alfred A. Knopf for almost 40 years. “Bill and Knopf,” a colleague said, “were entirely synonymous.”
The Oklahoma-born writer, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American to hold the post.
A Wisconsin judge ruled that it was defamatory to publish a book that said Leonard Pozner faked his son’s death certificate.
“The Dry Heart” presents a troubled marriage and a murder, and “Happiness, as Such” is about a man who flees home, leaving chaos in his wake.
Mona Awad, whose novel “Bunny” is out this month, shares her more interesting alternative to oatmeal.
“The Capital,” by the Austrian novelist Robert Menasse, depicts an E.U. bureaucracy rived by conflict and infighting and ripe for satire.
The Darra Adam Khel Library, less than a year old and with more than 2,500 books, offers residents a respite from the arms bazaar that dominates local life.
A selection of recent poetry books; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Julie Salamon’s “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer” recounts an episode that introduced Americans to terrorism long before 9/11.
She was a keen observer of what she called the “essential tension in the American appetite,” a reflection of the country’s cultural conflicts.
Mr. Sparks apologized for comments he made in emails released as part of a lawsuit that claims he spread a rumor an ex-employee had Alzheimer’s.
He was a Yale Law School professor when he embraced the counterculture in a 1970 book that became a best seller and brought him rock-star-level fame.
The writing in Reines’s new collection is queer and raunchy, raw and occult and vulnerable as she moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self.
Dreary scores and tasting notes are of little long-term use to consumers. What they need most are inspiration and liberation.
In her Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new works from Mark Alan Stamaty and Jaime Hernandez that each grapple with urban existence.
Human trafficking lies somewhere beneath the polite socializing in Kate Atkinson’s latest Jackson Brodie mystery, “Big Sky.”
For a brief period in the mid-1960s, the author, artist and fashion designer was a children’s book critic for The Times.
Suzanne Collins’s dystopian trilogy about children fighting to the death, later adapted as a series of blockbuster movies, is getting a prequel.
A National Book Award winner, he explored the seminal political events of the last century, including the Depression and World War II.
The new Showtime series sets a procedural against the backdrop of a particularly fraught era in the city’s history.
She had been a member of its literary circles since joining it as an intern under its editor George Plimpton.
Poets have always been writing while disabled. Here is new work by seven of them.
In “Picnic Comma Lightning,” Laurence Scott combines a memoir about grief with an investigation into the ways technologies blur the line between public and private.
Larry Diamond’s “Ill Winds” warns that American freedom is threatened from both inside and out.
The recording artist headlines Madison Square Garden, a play plumbs the gay experience in Uganda and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist anchors a new documentary.
“Running to the Edge,” by Matthew Futterman, recounts the story of the legendary coach Bob Larsen and his record-breaking runners.
Robert Macfarlane talks about “Underland: A Deep Time Journey,” and Julia Phillips discusses “Disappearing Earth.”
He was an uncontainable writer (novelist, essayist, biographer and more), started magazines with Bellow and died almost a year ago, to little public notice.
“Fall; or, Dodge in Hell” is a staggering feat of imagination, intelligence and stamina.
His 19-book series featuring an intelligence analyst named David Audley drew comparisons to John le Carré.
Jill Lepore explores the many new accounts of the Apollo 11 mission on its 50th anniversary, including Douglas Brinkley’s “American Moonshot.”
Machado de Assis Real, developed by a Brazilian university and an ad agency, shows the 19th-century writer in color, challenging some long-held ideas about him in the process.
Before Woolf settled on the unique perspective for her modernist masterpiece, she had a more expansive, though traditional, book in mind — “The Hours.”
Readers respond to the June 9 issue of the Sunday Book Review.
Sara Paretsky takes issue with a roundup in our Summer Reading issue. And other features provoke responses from various correspondents.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Ali Benjamin’s new novel and a sparkling debut from Laura Tucker are among four books about relocation and the promise of new beginnings.
In “The Death of Politics,” Peter Wehner explores what politics has done to Christian witness and despairs about the allegiances of the Trump era.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said that “new questions have arisen” about the author’s forthcoming book “Outrages” and that it would delay publication.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker,” the essayist casts herself as equal parts victim of online cancel culture, and predator.
His screenplays displayed an affinity for the mythology and history of his native state, and he and his wife started an archive devoted to Texas writers.
These books include ones focused on the Central Park Five and others exploring issues of racism and criminal justice that Netflix’s mini-series raises.
“I’ve had a lot of young women tell me my books were a friend in high school when they didn’t have many,” Dessen says. “Man, I know that feeling.”
The novelist and journalist, whose most recent book is the memoir “Places and Names,” thinks Vronsky gets a bad rap in “Anna Karenina”: “I believe that he loved Anna, in his strange broken way.”
In “The Dreamt Land,” Mark Arax chronicles California’s attempt to control its greatest natural resource, often to detrimental effect.
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s second novel “Patsy” follows a Jamaican woman as she begins a new life in Brooklyn, leaving her child behind.
Linda Hirshman’s new history traces a line from sexual harassment lawsuits in the 1970s to the arraignment of Harvey Weinstein.
Psychedelics are back, now in the language of health and wellness. Michael Pollan, Ayelet Waldman, and T.C. Boyle weigh in.
Matthew Futterman, the Times's deputy sports editor and an avid marathoner (23 and counting), reflects on the role that running plays in his writing and editing.
In 1964, her book about a decade-long affair with the legendary artist was a succès de scandale. Now, it’s back in print.
A.K. Benjamin’s magnificently unsettling new book is about the “unraveling minds” of his patients, and his own history of mental illness.
Blake Crouch’s alternate-reality thriller, “Recursion,” explores identity, memory and the very things that make us human.
With her debut novel, Taffy Brodesser-Akner updates the midlife malaise story, starring a left-behind husband who suddenly becomes a single parent.
A new novel and a restoration of the film “A Bigger Splash” expand our definition of art biography.
In “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems,” Campbell McGrath celebrates chain restaurants, rock music and the joyful raucous stupidity of pop culture.
On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn’t return home for 11 days. Here’s how her disappearance played out.
“The Body in Question,” a mordantly intelligent novel by Jill Ciment, features a sensational crime, a sequestered jury and a torrid love affair.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Herman Koch’s “The Ditch” uses an insecure mayor’s doubts about his marriage to probe larger cultural uncertainties in the “civilized” Netherlands.
Robert Menasse’s new novel, set in Brussels, makes infighting at the European Union not just interesting but funny.
Oscar Cásares’s “Where We Come From” avoids easy stereotypes to offer a story about an immigrant teenager trying to reunite with his father.
Tim Bouverie’s “Appeasement” describes the many ways the British government avoided standing up to Hitler.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of “BoJack Horseman,” makes his book debut with “Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory.”
A Penguin Random House imprint ended its relationship with the prosecutor-turned-novelist after “When They See Us” drew attention to her role in the case.
I wanted to tell a story about the life she really lived. All of it.
“It’s really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story,” Jeffrey Goldberg said in an interview about writers who can produce marquee magazine pieces. He said his comments were misconstrued.
Rachel Louise Snyder talks about “No Visible Bruises,” and Josh Levin discusses “The Queen.”
The bookstore chain’s future was the subject of speculation for months before the hedge fund said it would buy it for $638 million.
The graphic novelist Peter Kuper offers a comic about his love of Kafka’s more humorous side.
The characters in Ryan Andrews’s “This Was Our Pact” and Kayla Miller’s “Camp” learn to master the mysterious codes of conduct and ever-changing loyalties of middle school.
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love,” the novelist and journalist chronicles her journey across Italy, India and Indonesia.
Robert Macfarlane’s “Underland” explores ancient forests, urban catacombs and buried rivers to probe the secrets of man’s often malign influence on the earth.
Three comic novels (H.M. Naqvi’s “The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack,” Sloane Tanen’s “There’s a Word for That” and Evan James’s “Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe”) feature protagonists on the other side of their prime.
Lucy Ives’s debut novel, “Loudermilk,” satirizes both “bro” culture and the culture of creative writing programs in one fell swoop.
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
Readers respond to Joseph J. Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming.”
John Okada’s 1957 novel about a Japanese-American draft resister has been republished by Penguin Classics, raising questions over its ownership.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
These books — some classics, some published this year — tell the stories of the soldiers and spies who fought to defeat the Axis forces.
At times it caused suffering, but it also gave me a passion for words and language.
The magazine, which will publish its final issue this month after 20 years, set out to become a home for underrepresented voices in the literary landscape.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Matthew Lopez’s drama, inspired by the novel “Howards End” and presented in two parts, won this year’s Olivier Award for best new play.
Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.”
“The Ministry of Truth,” by Dorian Lynskey, is a “biography” of the 1949 novel, an enduring icon of state power devoid of moral principle and human concern.
A leading librarian who championed high tech, she dueled with preservationists like Nicholson Baker over how best to protect the written word for posterity.
We’ve revisited the books that defined the season over the past 50 years — and what they reveal about the country at a particular moment.
Wolf’s study of the criminalization of same-sex relationships in the Victorian era is the latest work by her to run afoul of fact-checkers.
In “The Pandemic Century” Mark Honigsbaum covers nine outbreaks that shaped how we think and respond to diseases.
Alexandra Popoff has written a biography of Vasily Grossman, the Soviet writer whose masterpiece, “Life and Fate,” compared Stalin’s regime to Hitler’s.
His new novel, “This Storm,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. To recover, she sends readers to Cara Black’s Paris and Martin Walker’s Périgord.
In his new book, Suketu Mehta, who came to the United States from India as a child, delivers a deeply felt corrective to the public rhetoric on immigrants — who they are and why they come.
Tim Bouverie’s riveting account shows why the lead-up to World War II wasn’t as inexplicable as hindsight might have us believe.
The semiautonomous Chinese city has long been a keeper of the memories of the crackdown, but growing mainland influence is making it harder.
The beloved British humorist — the creator of Wooster and Jeeves — was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in custody. Here’s how his story unspooled in The Times.
Dominic Smith’s novel “The Electric Hotel” unveils the tragic history of a film that undid its maker — and his love for its temperamental star.
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Clay Risen’s “The Crowded Hour” describes the campaign that turned a politician into a legend.
Three eloquent new French novels explore the relationship between creativity and affairs of the heart.
The heroine of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel “My Life as a Rat” is only 12 when she’s cast out after betraying her violent family’s code of silence.
In his latest book, the acclaimed English nature writer Robert Macfarlane goes beneath forest floors, and into sea caves and sinkholes, among other subterranean adventures.
The suicide earlier this year of Princeton economics professor, Alan B. Krueger, colors the reading of his final book: a highly personal exploration of the economics of creativity.