NYT Books

In “Whistler,” a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of two lives.

As presented in Andrea Wulf’s new biography, “The Traveler,” George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.

In “The Wreck of the Mentor,” the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.

Josh Weil’s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, “Land” is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland’s long struggle against British rule.

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.

In “1873,” the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects.

In “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” a white neighborhood’s local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.

In Sonia Feldman’s novel, “Girl’s Girl,” the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.