NYT Books

The wildly popular fiction genre allows readers to talk openly about yearning, sex and desire. And it’s spilling over into their bedrooms.

Jan Kerouac’s 1981 novel “Baby Driver” chronicles a fearless and windblown life entirely distinct from her famous parent’s.

With “Lovers and Haters,” Gilbert Hernandez expands on the surreal storytelling and bosomy B-movie film stars of his beloved long-running series.

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive.

Our columnist on three novels thrumming with menace.

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

In “The Fire,” the reporter Cecilia Sala travels to Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan and follows her generation into the fray.

The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture.

In “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb provides a biography both vivid and authoritative.