NYT Books

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

Rachel Cusk’s newest novel, “Life of M,” arrived in a pile of old-fashioned gossip. Alexandra Jacobs, a New York Times book critic, reviews the author’s latest novel.

With a Netflix adaptation now streaming, Rachel Kushner, Héctor Tobar, Zoe Kazan and others share why Steinbeck’s operatic family saga has stayed with them.

In six major books, John Iliffe centered his research not on kings, dictators and guerrilla chiefs but rather on ordinary African citizens. He has died at 87.

Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.

John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.

Ben Sevier, who has led the publishing house’s Grand Central division since 2017, will succeed chief executive David Shelley in January.

“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.

On the novel’s 50th anniversary, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the story behind the story.