NYT Books

Our columnist on the month’s standout books.

What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway? Luke Evans transforms in five-inch heels and an endless supply of glitter.

“Riverwork,” by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.

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The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.

On Wednesday, the queen of Britain presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.

“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”

“The Family Man,” by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.

Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark’s “The Hill” portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother’s jail cell and the world outside.

In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.