NYT Books

“The Vaster Wilds” follows a girl’s escape from a nameless colonial settlement into the unforgiving terrain of America.

In Claudia Dey’s novel “Daughter,” Mona’s adulterous father claims her as his sole confidante, with dire consequences.

In her latest book, “Doppelganger,” Naomi Klein investigates an online underworld of conspiracies and misinformation, showing how its rise has inadvertently been fueled by political progressives.

In “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy,” Robert P. Jones explores the harmful legacy of a 15th-century Christian doctrine used to justify expansion and colonization in the New World.

Tracy Daugherty’s new biography is the first comprehensive account of the prolific novelist who brought us “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and more.

Oksana Vasyakina’s first novel is a family history and a reflection on womanhood.

In “Beyond the Wall,” the historian Katja Hoyer draws on archives and interviews to bring the eastern half of Germany back into the postwar picture.

Five yearning Tokyo readers get life advice with their borrowed volumes in Michiko Aoyama’s “What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.”

Sean Michaels’s “Do You Remember Being Born?,” about a poet who is asked to collaborate with an A.I., explores the dangers and opportunities of incorporating technology into art.

Inspired by events in East Anglia, England, in 1645, “The Witching Tide,” by Margaret Meyer, evokes the climate of fear and accusation that grips a town with the arrival of a “witchfinder.”