NYT Books

A new photo book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist.

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course.

In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat.

Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths.

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

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.