NYT Books

In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

Two families navigate a pivotal holiday season that transforms their lives.

For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing grueling testimony about the 2015 massacre at the concert hall and other venues in the city.

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.

Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase him.

“Lazarus Man” follows several characters in Harlem in the wake of a building collapse.