NYT Books

Benjamín Labatut’s novel “The Maniac” examines the dawn of the nuclear age and the brilliant, sometimes troubled minds behind it.

As autoworkers strike across the country, “Hillbilly Highway” and “Black Folk” offer two views of the search for a better life by working-class migrants in the middle of the 20th century.

In his latest book, the German historian Volker Ullrich describes a nation buffeted by poverty, hyperinflation and political extremism, but managing — for the moment — to thwart Hitler’s ascent.

“The End of Eden” is Adam Welz’s moving, chilling elegy for biodiversity as we know it.

“The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, examines a plagiarism case and the place of African literature in the West.

The new book by Adam Nagourney offers an in-depth look at how a newspaper navigated reporting challenges, financial crises and the transition to the digital era.

In Lisa M. Hamilton’s new book, a Hmong refugee turns a patch of arid farmland into a kingdom.

Ben Fountain’s new novel, “Devil Makes Three,” is a study of opportunism and deception during a political crisis.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.