NYT Books

“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.

In “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Susan Minot once again explores female desire, staging a romantic collision between a divorced mother and a much younger musician.

The new story collection by Mark Haddon takes inspiration from Greek myths, H.G. Wells and Snoopy.

In his memoir, “Unleashed,” the former prime minister is “optimistic” about the possibility that Donald J. Trump could regain the White House.

Daniel M. Lavery’s debut novel collects vignettes from inside the Biedermeier, a second-rate, rapidly waning establishment in midcentury New York City.

The protagonist of Eva Baltasar’s novel “Mammoth” contains multitudes, and that’s the way she likes it.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.

Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.