NYT Books

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse.

In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s new novel, “Small Worlds,” a young South Londoner manages pressures from his family and community.

In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come.

Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field’s ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.

In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people.

In “Under the Eye of Power,” Colin Dickey unearths the long, disturbing history of fearmongering in American politics and culture.

He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.

Khaled Khalifa’s new novel follows two friends through disaster and religious tension in early-20th-century Syria.

“Vanishing Maps” returns to the del Pino family, now spread across three continents and four generations.