NYT Books

Colin Barrett’s first novel, “Wild Houses,” follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.

When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.

Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate.

His popular manga inspired numerous television, film and video game adaptations, reaching fans far beyond Japan’s borders.

Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic style.

Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York where he tended bar and appeared in soap operas and, with his family, scattered “Angela’s Ashes.”

Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.

Colum McCann and Diane Foley, James’s mother, came together to question one of his kidnappers and write a book that delves into the lives of both men.

Nicolas Mathieu’s novel “Connemara” illuminates a clash of values and visions in contemporary France.

In “The Trading Game,” Gary Stevenson spills secrets of the City.