NYT Books

“Cloudthief,” by Nathaniel Rich, follows a dispirited writer into a scheme to get rich and find romance along the way.

Julie Buntin’s novel “Famous Men” complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent.

A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder’s campaign to promote conservative Christian values.

In “Every Inch a Lady,” Audrey Smaltz shares her incredible story — if not her inimitable voice.

Her best-known work, “Women Without Men,” was longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year.

Her first collection of short fiction, “It Will Come Back to You,” is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.

From assisted living to elder activism and her own experience as a caregiver, Lucy Schiller investigates aging’s myriad challenges in her first book.

Homer’s “Odyssey” has been translated into English countless times, with versions ranging from contemporary and accessible to highly poetic. A.O. Scott, critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three translations and explains

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?

Han Ong’s barbed, irreverent portrait of identity, class envy and flimflam deception in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan still resonates.