NYT Books

Mike Mignola’s “Bowling With Corpses” is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.

Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.

In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history.

Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.

In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.

Tom Lamont’s debut novel, “Going Home,” considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it.