NYT Books

A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.

Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.

In “Playmakers,” Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)

As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.

In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.

Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.

She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.

An adaptation has a twist that doesn’t track, and songs that benefit from an excellent cast, including Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.

Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin’s iconic paperback series.