NYT Books

In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.

The popular children’s television show has returned, with Mychal Threets trying to recapture the magic of the original show for a streaming audience.

“When those bugs are crawling on Kate Capshaw in ‘Temple of Doom,’ I’m having the time of my life,” the actress and author said.

His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades.

The Fort Lauderdale museum, one of the country’s oldest L.G.B.T.Q. institutions, is looking to its rich archives for lessons in how to survive a crisis. Here’s a look inside its collection.

A new reissue of Siegfried Kracauer’s 1928 novel “Ginster” offers a darkly humorous window into one German conscript’s inglorious journey.

Over nearly a half-century, he wrote 10,000 epigrams, none longer than 17 words, and printed them on postcards, T-shirts, mugs and other products.

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.