NYT Books

The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.

Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.

An indefatigable gardener, she was one of the first nutritionists to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers’ health.

In a new essay collection, A. Kendra Greene translates her experiences of our bizarre and marvelous world.

“The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.

Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books.

Her “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,” a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.

A memoir of Italy; notes on Canada.

In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories.