NYT Books

Our columnist on the month’s best books.

If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.

Philip Stead’s “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” gleefully ignores all the storytelling rules.

Scouring estate sales, eBay and family basements, Rhae Lynn Barnes amassed a disturbing collection to write “Darkology,” her groundbreaking new book.

Her deceased loved ones are characters on a hit TV show, her name is in the Epstein files and she’s returning to “Real Housewives.” What does she make of it all?

Just in time for the start of the season, Robert Coover’s prescient 1968 novel is back in print.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.

In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become.

The author Elizabeth Arnott recommends thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.

Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.