NYT Books

The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.

“Men Like Ours,” a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.

With the help of a forensic artist, Amitav Ghosh puts a face to the name of Varsha Gupta, the central figure of his new novel, “Ghost Eye.”

Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.

Three new books — a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir and a dual biography — provide divergent views on the business of buying and selling, and they are out just in time for New York Art Week.

In John Lanchester’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” a widow is unnerved when a hit TV series airs details from her marriage a little too closely.

In the powerful and surprising “John of John,” Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he’d left behind.

Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.

The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.

Rita Collins had a dream for her retirement: bringing books and people together all over the country. Behind the wheel of a van she’s making it happen.