NYT Books

Jesse Ball’s Kafkaesque novel imagines a legal system that deploys a shockingly personal device.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.

For the first time in the award’s 55-year history, five of the six nominated titles are by female authors.

In “Defectors,” the journalist Paola Ramos interviews MAGA supporters, Proud Boys and others to investigate a constituency long thought reliably Democratic.

In “Lucky Loser,” two investigative reporters illuminate the financial chicanery and media excesses that gave us the 45th president of the United States.

In Rumaan Alam’s new novel, “Entitlement,” giving away a fortune isn’t as easy as it sounds.