NYT Books

Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.

“A Marriage at Sea” tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.

Sarah MacLean’s “These Summer Storms” is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.

“2024,” a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.

“Vera, or Faith” follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.

In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.

With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.

“Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

In “The CIA Book Club,” Charlie English tells the story of America’s war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.

A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.