NYT Books

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a “literary phenomenon.”

A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the American Revolution.

Drawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales.

The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.

He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.

In “King of Ashes,” the novelist again returns to rural Virginia as a setting, with a hero who has to face the family he once fled.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

In the novel “Peachaloo in Bloom,” the selfishness belongs to one man. In the picture book “The Wanting Monster,” it belongs to us all.

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.