NYT Books

A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.

In “America, U.S.A.,” Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.

In “Dekonstructing the Kardashians,” MJ Corey takes America’s most famous TV clan seriously.

In “The Danger to Be Sane,” the journalist Rosa Montero delves into the connections between psychic turbulence and creative work — including her own.

In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.

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

The two-time National Book Award winner collects essays, profiles and appreciations in a new book, “On Witness and Respair.”

In her ingenious “Dog Days,” Emily LaBarge writes about a terrifying event without resorting to “the trauma plot.”

Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.

A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.