NYT Books

Our columnist on the month’s new releases.

In “The Secret Public,” Jon Savage traces how music helped popularize queer culture, from the 1950s through the heyday of disco.

After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.

He took a dry topic and made it entertaining, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the way cities are built.

A study of human fatigue; a cranky travel memoir.

In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice.

The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.

The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book.

An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.

In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin.