NYT Books

In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.

Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?

In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.

In “Worry,” Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions and maladjustments of adulthood.

In “Age of Revolutions,” the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present.

Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.

Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.

In Ferdia Lennon’s charming debut, “Glorious Exploits,” Athenian prisoners stage Euripides for their wine-swilling, foul-mouthed captors.

After his partner, Molly Brodak, died by suicide, Blake Butler found painful truths in her journals and personal items.

In “Long Live Queer Nightlife,” the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.