NYT Books

Wenyan Lu’s novel, “The Funeral Cryer,” explores a Chinese tradition through a modern, more personal lens.

Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.

In Heidi Reimer’s novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who happily mines her life for material.

She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, “Real Americans,” while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.

The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is such a thing as publishing too soon.

New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

“Lublin,” a novel by Manya Wilkinson, brings together a quest fable and a dark history with disarming humor.

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.