NYT Books

The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?

In “Private Revolutions,” Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.

In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.

In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.

Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.

J. Courtney Sullivan’s “The Cliffs” is a haunted house mystery steeped in historical context.

Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.

Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.

The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.