NYT Books

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in novel-memoirs like “Other People’s Houses.”

Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.

A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.

In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.

An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.

John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.

In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.

Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.