NYT Books

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A biography of Joni Mitchell, two hotly anticipated horror novels, a behind-the-scenes exposé about Donald Trump’s years on “The Apprentice” and more.

How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.

Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.

A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.

A maid resists her employers; citizens resist their country.

The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem.”

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.