NYT Books

Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.

In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.

In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”

In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party.

Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.

In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due.

In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of her own.