NYT Books

MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.

In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.

Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.

In “Money to Burn,” William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.

In “All the Presidents’ Wars,” the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.

In “The Living Realm,” an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.

“Taipei Story,” R.F. Kuang’s seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.

In “Living With Freddie,” Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her “to be human.”

In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.

Barbara Kingsolver remembers the man she counted among her most important literary mentors.