NYT Books

Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic.

“Piglet,” by Lottie Hazell, is a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the power of appetite.

In “Strong Passions,” the historian Barbara Weisberg tells the story of an explosive, lurid 1860s case that still resonates today.

In a posthumous collection, “The Bloodied Nightgown,” Joan Acocella pays tribute to her many and varied interests.

Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”

Two new books about the platform chronicle its leadership under first Jack Dorsey and now Elon Musk, portraying a site reeling from user disaffection and gross mismanagement.

In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.

A new biography chronicles this essential American writer’s complicated love life, celebrated career and singular talents.

In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.