NYT Books

Caryl Phillips’s new novel, “Another Man in the Street,” follows an immigrant who arrives in 1960s London.

“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion.

In her lively debut novel, “How to Sleep at Night,” Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay couple dials up the campaign rhetoric.

In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an asylum lawyer and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a women’s retreat.

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.

Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.

Karissa Chen’s debut, “Homeseeking,” follows two childhood sweethearts who meet in Shanghai, and whose lives are upended by the forces of history.