NYT Books

In “The Indispensable Right,” Jonathan Turley argues that the First Amendment has been deeply compromised from the start.

In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”

A comprehensive new biography, by Michael Nott, lays bare the tragic circumstances behind a brilliant iconoclast’s life and work.

In Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “Little Rot,” two exes trying to recover after a breakup inadvertently stumble into a dark, disturbing and dangerous side of Nigeria.

In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life, work and influence.

Justice, feminism, freedom and cheap horror thrills make for an exciting month of reading.

The second novel from the co-host of the “Who? Weekly” podcast follows a West Village writer in the early 1990s and today.

A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him?

Kids don’t need to know what zydeco is, or that Mandy and the Meerkats are a nod to Diana Ross and the Supremes, to dig this spoof of vintage vinyl.

In “The Fall of Roe,” Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer explain exactly how Roe v. Wade was made — and unmade.