NYT Books

For the first time, a young heroine from the toy juggernaut is at the center of a book for adults, written by a novelist who admires her pluck.

Richard Cooke’s book, “The Last Best Place on the Internet” retells the history of Wikipedia with an emphasis on the human. Jennifer Szalai, a New York Times book critic, reviews the book.

A jaunty new history recounts how the online encyclopedia turned the promise of collective creation into a global juggernaut.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.

The “Bojack Horseman” designer Lisa Hanawalt bridles at glib therapists and is hot to trot for Mister Rogers in her new graphic memoir.

K-Ming Chang’s “Needlemouth” blends body horror with feminist allegory in the story of three cousins grappling with their inherited trauma.

David McCloskey, a C.I.A. analyst turned spy novelist, has just released his fifth book, “London Station.”