NYT Books

In “Three or More Is a Riot,” the Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb collects his writings on race and culture for The New Yorker.

In “Devils’ Advocates,” the New York Times journalist Kenneth P. Vogel wades into the murky world of Washington lobbyists working for foreign interests.

In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.

Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.

Megha Majumdar’s new novel follows two disastrously entangled lives in a famine-ridden future.

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war.

Gabrielle Hamilton’s new memoir, “Next of Kin,” lacks the visceral shock and searing vision of her prior work.

In “The Unveiling,” a tortured film location scout is haunted by a traumatic past and a supernatural present.

The devil, Prada-clad or not, stays on the periphery of Caroline Palmer’s “Workhorse,” a novel about an ambitious assistant at a Vogue-like publication.