NYT Books

In “Bear Witness,” Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.

In the searing “Dirty Kitchen,” Jill Damatac tells the story of a fight for survival and culture in America.

In “The Art Spy,” Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland.

The National Book Award-winning author shows young readers a humane political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate.

A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global financial order.

“Original Sin,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, depicts an aging president whose family and aides enabled his quixotic campaign for a second term.

In Kevin Wilson’s novel “Run for the Hills,” half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.

Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.

A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.