NYT Books

Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.

In “Feast While You Can,” two women who have long been nemeses rely on each other to face an ancient terror that has re-emerged.

“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

The series is the third production linked to the author to face turmoil after allegations made by five women surfaced this summer.

An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.

In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.