NYT Books

“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances.

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

“John Lewis” and “Medgar and Myrlie” tell the stories of activists who struggled with when to push and when to compromise and build coalitions.

“The Freaks Came Out to Write” is an oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly.

In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.

In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.

In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still married. What now?

With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details.

The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.

On the 25th anniversary of the director’s death, two film scholars have published “Kubrick: An Odyssey.”