NYT Books

Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.

Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox News-watching parents, “It’s like they were possessed.” That’s what inspired him to write “Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.”

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.

Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.

These culinary coming-of-age tales are movable feasts for the gluttonous listener.

After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and other services.

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.”

In “The Interpretation of Cats,” Claude Béata helps explain the inscrutable behavior of our feline companions.