NYT Books

Naomi Alderman’s new novel imagines an end of the world that only the wealthiest can survive — or can they?

In “Sins of the Shovel,” Rachel Morgan describes the dark, chaotic early days of American archaeology.

In “Baumgartner,” a professor contends with mortality and the haunting memory of his wife.

Yarros drew on her experience with chronic illness and life in a military family to write “Fourth Wing,” a huge best seller that spawned a spicy fantasy series.

Yarros drew on her experience with chronic illness and life in a military family to write “Fourth Wing,” a huge best seller that spawned a spicy fantasy series.

In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.

Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.

Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”

In 44 years at Knopf, she shepherded history books that won a raft of Pulitzers — seven in all — as well as Bancrofts, although one recipient set off a furious debate.

One of the few women at the top of her field in book and magazine publishing, she was also a champion of her fellow professionals.