NYT Books

Barbara Trapido’s 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.

Tom McCarthy’s new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.

Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.

In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.

A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.

Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.

On “The Book Review” podcast, Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko” and “American Hagwon,” explains how losing social safety nets after 1997 reshaped Korean culture into an intense educational race.

In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.

In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.

In “The Havana Syndrome,” Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados make the case that a mysterious Russian weapon has been used to target American intelligence agents.