NYT Books

In her second memoir, the author of “Maid” recounts the struggle of getting educated in America below the poverty line.

In a chatty and candid new memoir, Barbra Streisand talks about her early determination to be famous and tallies the hurdles and helpers she met along the way.

In Rob Copeland’s “The Fund,” we learn about the notorious hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio — and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he has presided.

In Jonathan Evison’s new novel, “Again and Again,” a curmudgeonly old man in an elder-care facility finds an unlikely connection as he recounts the stories of his past lives.

Naomi Alderman’s new novel imagines an end of the world that only the wealthiest can survive — or can they?

In “Sins of the Shovel,” Rachel Morgan describes the dark, chaotic early days of American archaeology.

In “Baumgartner,” a professor contends with mortality and the haunting memory of his wife.

In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.

Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.

Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”