NYT Books

The year is nearly halfway over. Here’s what we’ve been listening to.

Our critic on four terrific new mysteries.

New fiction from Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and much more.

Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.

Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.

Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.

The writer and illustrator William Steig lived several lives before his book about a surly ogre became a Hollywood hit.

The author of the InvestiGators series recommends books from his childhood as well as more recent faves.

As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.

“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”