NYT Books

Mo Ogrodnik’s novel, “Gulf,” follows characters from different countries and classes confronting the region’s forced stratification into oppressor and oppressed.

As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural.

The media mogul publicly addressed being gay for the first time, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. “Today he opened to the world,” she said.

In “The Manor of Dreams,” two sets of women navigate both a contested inheritance and paranormal activity after a devastating death.

A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.