NYT Books

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky’s “Mock Heart” show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.

In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.

In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.

Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.

In “Money to Burn,” William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.

In “All the Presidents’ Wars,” the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.

In “The Living Realm,” an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.