NYT Books

Our critic on the month’s most notable releases.

Nadine Gordimer’s stories; Margaret Atwood’s sketches.

The novelist Robyn Gigl picks her favorite courtroom dramas and legal whodunits — some of which may surprise you.

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.

The director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel.

Two new books grapple with the questions of who we are, what we are, whether we are — and what we can do for one another.

In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human.

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

These steamy reads bring the emotion and the heat.

Eighteen books in (the latest is “Every Tom, Dick & Harry”), she still recalls an editor’s note urging more action: “Could someone here please pass the potatoes?”