NYT Books

A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.

It’s time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can’t stop thinking about.

The picture books “Bored” and “Endless Afternoons” are odes to the joy of having nothing to do.

There’s nothing like hearing a famous person’s life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, who met when their fathers were in Congress, make a case for bipartisanship in a picture book about dogs working together.

Pliny’s “Natural History” is meant for “skimming and skipping,” she says. Her own new (one-volume) road-trip novel is “Beginning Middle End.”

Our columnist on three of the year’s most anticipated books.

Caitlin Mullen drew on eerie expeditions to the Pine Barrens for her new mystery novel, “Heather.”

In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.