NYT Books

Ben Fountain’s new novel, “Devil Makes Three,” is a study of opportunism and deception during a political crisis.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

Her new novel, “Night Watch,” is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia mental institution.

A prolific feminist turns her sights to the opposite sex.

Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.

Isle McElroy’s second novel, “People Collide,” puts a pair of bored newlyweds in each other’s shoes.

The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

In Eliza Clark’s novel “Penance,” a 16-year-old becomes more fascinating in death than she was in life.

In Nora Fussner’s new novel, the jaded producers of “Searching For … the Invisible World” are pulled into a haunted story they initially refuse to believe.