NYT Books

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

“The Next One Is for You” chronicles the effects of the Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.

A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood.

A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.

In Lawrence Wright’s new thriller, an Arab American F.B.I. agent and an Israeli cop take on an intractable conflict.

Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.

In a new essay collection, A. Kendra Greene translates her experiences of our bizarre and marvelous world.

“The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.

In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden.