NYT Books

The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

Katie Mitchell’s photo book “Prose to the People” visits stores around the United States, from the 19th century to today.

Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.

In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.

The latest in the author’s Acoustic Rooster franchise, a PBS Kids special and series aim to teach children the beauty of collaboration and improvisation.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.

Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.”