NYT Books

Our columnist reviews this season’s new books.

In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

In essays and books, he explored physical landscapes and the terrain of his own life, up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”

Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.

Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.

He wrote a history of the Irish Republican Army and directed a project that secretly collected oral histories of paramilitary fighters.

In her new book, “We Fell Apart,” the young adult novelist returns to Martha’s Vineyard — and teen friendship — for the third time.

The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.

He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He became a professor and historian in Britain.