NYT Books

In “Beyond the Wall,” the historian Katja Hoyer draws on archives and interviews to bring the eastern half of Germany back into the postwar picture.

Five yearning Tokyo readers get life advice with their borrowed volumes in Michiko Aoyama’s “What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.”

New books by Zadie Smith, Alice McDermott and Stephen King; family sagas by Ayana Mathis and Jesmyn Ward; and more.

Memoirs by Barbra Streisand, Patrick Stewart, Jada Pinkett Smith; hotly anticipated books on Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried; and plenty more.

Sean Michaels’s “Do You Remember Being Born?,” about a poet who is asked to collaborate with an A.I., explores the dangers and opportunities of incorporating technology into art.

Our crime columnist recommends four September books.

Inspired by events in East Anglia, England, in 1645, “The Witching Tide,” by Margaret Meyer, evokes the climate of fear and accusation that grips a town with the arrival of a “witchfinder.”

The Peloton instructor and author of “XOXO, Cody” is a big believer in the power of a cold plunge and sticking with therapy even when things are going well.

In “Time’s Echo,” the classical music critic Jeremy Eichler examines the life and work of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Fran Littlewood’s debut novel, “Amazing Grace Adams,” takes readers on a tour of a mother’s darkest hour.