NYT Books

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”

In “One Leg on Earth,” a young college grad’s idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.

In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.

In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul neighborhood to better understand Turkey’s hard-right turn.

Fonda Lee’s “cyberpunk samurai in space” novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.

The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.

In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.

Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.

Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.

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