NYT Books

Pam Muñoz Ryan’s “El Niño” combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales.

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of internationalism and commitment to the common good.

In “I Seek a Kind Person,” Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.

In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.

Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.

“Poet in the New World” introduces readers to the often overlooked early work of the Polish master Czeslaw Milosz.

In “Precious Rubbish,” Kayla E. turns to midcentury children’s comics to help tell her shattering story.

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring power of the Virgin of Fatima.

In his new book, “The Illegals,” Shaun Walker studies the Russian agents who worked deep undercover as Americans for decades.

In Sean Hewitt’s novel, “Open, Heaven,” two isolated boys develop an intense, undefined relationship.