NYT Books

Your burning questions about the postal service are answered in Stephen Starring Grant’s lively memoir.

A new book investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.

Hannah Pittard goes back to the tale of her busted marriage in a comic novel about a claustrophobic literary milieu — and a talking cat.

“Pan,” by Michael Clune, details a year in the life of a suburban adolescent who can’t shake his panic attacks.

The author of the Divergent series recommends books that explore human nature and disintegrating reality.

In Dan Fesperman’s new novel, the C.I.A. tries celebrity diplomacy to infiltrate a dictatorship.

Examining artifacts from the archive of British Romanticism, a scholar finds evidence of intimate, if often overlooked, connections to slavery.

Two darkly amusing graphic novels for kids pit machine learning and rocket science against good old-fashioned humanity.

“Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.