NYT Books

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

Janet Fash’s memoir is both a sunny coming-of-age story and an exposé of corruption, understaffing and unnecessary deaths at Rockaway Beach.

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence.

In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood.

In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.

Amy Griffin contended that she was defamed when a former classmate accused her in a lawsuit of appropriating parts of her story of being sexually abused for “The Tell.”

The stories in her new collection deal in jagged emergencies and in wounds both physical and psychic.

In “Empire of Ink,” Alex Wright describes how newfangled technologies and disruptive personalities have regularly unsettled the American media.