NYT Books

As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored.

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.

“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.

In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.

His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.

“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.

“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.

In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.