NYT Books

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is taking a break from the future to examine his past — and mulling where the billionaires now fit in.

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, fashion and more.

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding.

“Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age.

In “Talk,” Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?

In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left behind.

Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Good Dirt” weaves together grief, suspense and the story of a jar made by an enslaved potter generations earlier.

Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day.

In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.