NYT Books

Julie Buntin’s novel “Famous Men” complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent.

“Cloudthief,” by Nathaniel Rich, follows a dispirited writer into a scheme to get rich and find romance along the way.

A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder’s campaign to promote conservative Christian values.

In “Every Inch a Lady,” Audrey Smaltz shares her incredible story — if not her inimitable voice.

Her first collection of short fiction, “It Will Come Back to You,” is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.

From assisted living to elder activism and her own experience as a caregiver, Lucy Schiller investigates aging’s myriad challenges in her first book.

Han Ong’s barbed, irreverent portrait of identity, class envy and flimflam deception in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan still resonates.

A group of artists gathered at a hotel on the Côte d’Azur in 1937. A new book by Anna Thomasson captures the art and escapades the holiday inspired.

William T. Vollmann’s fascinating, wildly ambitious text interweaves a family saga with a history of the American war machine since Vietnam.

In Daniel Mason’s charming “Country People,” a stuck father and his happier family are tempted, and changed, during a stint on a bucolic campus.