NYT Books

“The Upstairs Delicatessen,” a memoir by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, traces his life’s twin passions.

For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.

The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.

A selection of recently published books.

In her most recent book, “The Comfort of Crows,” Renkl puts her admirable powers of perception to use, offering readers respite, and reason for hope, in a turbulent world.

Some Jane Austen and a tennis rom-com are just right the right relief when news of fighting and war takes a toll.

“Roughing the Princess,” an erotic e-book inspired by an actual relationship, veered too close to reality for many of Taylor Swift’s fans.

In “The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived,” Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman show how Oedipal battles fueled the company’s technological triumphs in the 1960s and beyond.

In a new memoir, the rock luminary details his long career and the music that shaped him.

She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.