NYT Books

Olivie Blake’s darkly comedic campus novel “Girl Dinner” explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.

In “Winston and the Windsors,” the prolific biographer Andrew Morton, perhaps inevitably, tackles two British behemoths.

“Every Day Is Sunday,” by a New York Times reporter, tracks the dominant influence of Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft and Roger Goodell.

In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.

In Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel, a young woman responds to her husband’s infidelities in creative ways.

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history.

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.

Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.

James Van Der Zee’s baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.

In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience.