NYT Books

“Bonding,” by Mariel Franklin, is a love story charged by the absurdities of a market-driven culture.

In Kerry Cullen’s uncanny debut, “House of Beth,” a queer 20-something finds that “straight” life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached.

In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching,” a graduate student stumbles into a haunting conspiracy while researching a cult writer.

In “The Club,” Jennifer Dasal investigates a refuge for (some) expat artists in the City of Light.

The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after the fall of communism.

In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot’s marriage to “the publishing world’s P.T. Barnum.”

Kashana Cauley’s novel “The Payback” imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they’re into reiki.

In “Nothing More of This Land,” the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island’s Indigenous history.

A harrowing new book tells the story of the women determined to learn the fates of the babies born to their pregnant daughters in captivity.

Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in “Culpability.”