NYT Books

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women.

Cait Corrain, a debut fantasy author, admitted to creating fake accounts on Goodreads to bolster her own book and tank the ratings of others.

A writer and artist finds a path out of pain in the stacks of a library.

The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end.

Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard’s debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger.

Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.

One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries.

“Going Infinite” may have missed the big takeaway, but it offers at least one undeniable pleasure: deep access.

In Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel, “The Glow,” read by Gabra Zackman, a P.R. rep immerses herself in the woo-woo world of a cultlike “spiritual retreat,” and its enigmatic leader.

Our critic recommends “Hermit of Peking,” by Hugh Trevor-Roper, and “A Morbid Taste for Bones,” by Ellis Peters.