NYT Books

Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” and Heather Cox Richardson’s “Democracy Awakening” follow plots against America hatched by homegrown autocrats.

In Molly McGhee’s debut, “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,” debt-laden citizens are recruited to “audit” others’ dreams — all in the name of productivity.

In her vivid second novel, “My Work,” Olga Ravn evokes the disorientation of new parenthood.

Lisa Tuttle’s “My Death” is short, uncanny, provocative, and pays tribute to a body of forgotten literature.

In “The Upside-Down World,” Benjamin Moser roams the galleries of the Netherlands in search of clues to the artists’ biographies.

A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.

The filmmaker’s new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” prompts a critic’s incredulity.

“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?

A new collection of her novels and stories is a showcase for a science fiction pioneer.

Justin Torres’s genre-defying new book, “Blackouts,” explores what it means to be erased and how to persist after being wiped away.