NYT Books

Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer.

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.

Our columnist on four stellar new releases.

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book “The Truth in the Light.” Here are some of them.

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.

New festive stories center the many ways people celebrate the season, and each other.