NYT Books

In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.

With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.

“Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

In “The CIA Book Club,” Charlie English tells the story of America’s war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.

A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.

Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs.

In “The Beast in the Clouds,” Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow.

A childhood friendship in upper-class Beijing is tested by envy, ambition and relentless materialism.

Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.

André Breton’s 1928 novel “Nadja” pays homage to a great love and to a great city.