NYT Books

A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.

From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”

In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.

A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.

“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”

In “Framed,” an advocate for the wrongly accused joins forces with John Grisham to tell stories of justice denied.

Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.

The 2008 coal ash spill was among the biggest industrial disasters in U.S. history. In a new book, Jared Sullivan recounts the accident, the lawsuits and the lasting damage.

“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.

Two new books explore the messy business of uncovering Russian interference in American elections.