NYT Books

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define anything at all.

Yann Martel’s “Son of Nobody” joins many recent books that reimagine the classics, but offers a Nabokovian twist.

In his free time, Jeff Martin mobilized best-selling authors to travel to sold-out events in his hometown. He will soon expand his horizons.

What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break.

With “Transcription,” the writer makes a case for the vitality of the form.

The Book Review editors discuss fiction and nonfiction that caught their eye. Plus, Ada Limón on the power of poetry.

“The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.

Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to.

Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.