NYT Books

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.”

In “Time’s Echo,” the classical music critic Jeremy Eichler examines the life and work of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Fran Littlewood’s debut novel, “Amazing Grace Adams,” takes readers on a tour of a mother’s darkest hour.

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief.

From Michael Jordan to Russell Westbrook, Dennis Rodman to LeBron James, “Fly” traces the looks that have defined basketball style from the beginning.