NYT Books

The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky’s “Mock Heart” show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.

The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.

New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.

In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.

In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.

Her new album, “Good Grief,” mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel. She’s also adapting the Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings” into a musical.

Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.

Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.