NYT Books

Our critic on the best new books this month.

Our critic on the best new books this month.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.

Hannah Pittard goes back to the tale of her busted marriage in a comic novel about a claustrophobic literary milieu — and a talking cat.

“Pan,” by Michael Clune, details a year in the life of a suburban adolescent who can’t shake his panic attacks.

A novel of adolescent friendship; a brooding celebrity memoir.

The author of the Divergent series recommends books that explore human nature and disintegrating reality.

In Dan Fesperman’s new novel, the C.I.A. tries celebrity diplomacy to infiltrate a dictatorship.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.