NYT Books

Jonathan Mahler’s new book portrays the city’s rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division.

“The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter,” by Peter Orner, revives an unsolved mystery involving Chicagoland royalty.

A new book by the veteran correspondent Jon Lee Anderson captures a long war’s noble goals and crippling missteps.

“Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.

Tochi Eze’s novel, “This Kind of Trouble,” circles between the 1900s and the 2000s, and between Atlanta and Nigeria, in a sweeping story of colonialism and its aftershocks.

In her second essay collection, “Sloppy,” the writer and social media personality Rax King embraces the mess of living imperfectly.

In “Friends Until the End,” James Grant explores the political passions and inspiring oratory of the British parliamentarians Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.

In C. Mallon’s novel, a teenager’s night out with friends dissolves into a collision of catastrophes.

In Emily Adrian’s “Seduction Theory,” two married creative writing professors have parallel affairs, with very different outcomes.

In “The Hounding,” by Xenobe Purvis, the atmosphere of paranoia and bloodthirsty groupthink in 18th-century England might feel uncomfortably familiar.