NYT Books

In “Empire of Ink,” Alex Wright describes how newfangled technologies and disruptive personalities have regularly unsettled the American media.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s new book, “Something We Said,” is at once a memoir and a history of a racial slur.

In “They All Fall in Love at the End,” a young Black woman navigates taboo attractions and a contentious political environment while working toward a creative writing degree.

In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.

In “Drayton and Mackenzie,” two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.

Kate Milford’s cozy mystery is set at an abandoned amusement park, while Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer’s horror satire unfolds at a malevolent sleepaway camp.

In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.

In her lyrical new biography, “This Dark Night,” Deborah Lutz shines light on the most enigmatic of the literary, secluded Brontë sisters.

In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years.

In her new history, “Cocked and Boozy,” Brooke Barbier illuminates the pervasive role that alcohol played throughout the colonial era.