NYT Books

From Michael Jordan to Russell Westbrook, Dennis Rodman to LeBron James, “Fly” traces the looks that have defined basketball style from the beginning.

“I’m no longer a leader in the fight,” says Sergio Ramírez. “Now I’m just an author being punished for the words he writes.” His latest crime tale is out in English.

In four new picture books, lions, tigers and house cats stand in for young children as they rein in wild emotions or finally let out a roar.

His new novel, “Holly,” charges into thorny contemporary debates with a pair of unassuming fiends.

As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.

Sometimes our reflections have nothing to do with us; sometimes they’re “the hide to our seek.”

In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.

A selection of recently published books.

Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”

Across Korea and Canada and the Midwest, these lonely protagonists guide us through ennui, delusion and even the afterlife.