NYT Books

In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.

Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird’s satirical novel, “The Nimbus,” strains for the heavenly.

In “Make It Ours,” Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer’s short, historic career.

In Leila Mottley’s new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to support one another.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.

In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.

8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.

The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.