NYT Books

In a new memoir, the rock luminary details his long career and the music that shaped him.

“Let Us Descend,” by the two-time National Book Award-winning novelist, takes its title from the “Inferno” and its subject from American history.

Candid memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos reveal how lucky breaks — and Yale training, and a curling iron — made them into household names.

In “Ours Was the Shining Future,” the New York Times writer David Leonhardt dissects the country’s record on prosperity, arguing that progressive policies are best suited for achieving our ideals.

The third book by K-Ming Chang is a coming-of-age story mired in body horror, feminism, rot and decay.

Authorized by the Orwell estate, “Julia,” by Sandra Newman, revisits the events of the dystopian classic, this time as seen by Winston Smith’s love interest.

Michael MacCambridge’s “The Big Time” rewinds to the ’70s, when showy personalities and compelling rivalries turned sports into mass entertainment.

Tim O’Brien’s manic satire follows a disgraced journalist on a criminal road trip through a myth-addled nation.

In “Endangered Eating,” the food historian Sarah Lohman explores the onetime staples disappearing from our tables.

In “Opposable Thumbs,” Matt Singer recalls the risky business of putting newspaper movie critics on TV — and the “combustible chemistry” that made it a hit.