NYT Books

A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.

In “America, U.S.A.,” Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.

In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.

The two-time National Book Award winner collects essays, profiles and appreciations in a new book, “On Witness and Respair.”

In her ingenious “Dog Days,” Emily LaBarge writes about a terrifying event without resorting to “the trauma plot.”

Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.

A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.

The fast success of this play, about the children’s author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.

In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.