NYT Books

Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

John Birdsall’s “What Is Queer Food?” and Erik Piepenburg’s “Dining Out” both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.

“Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President” includes reflections on being asked to testify about her sex life, as well as the thrill of winning two lawsuits.

The culture critic Brian Raftery, who wrote about “Jaws” for the Book Review last year, discusses the movie’s anniversary with Gilbert Cruz.

Two children’s novels take a gimlet-eyed look at the price of gifts with “no strings attached.”

Archival photographs, fashion layouts and anecdotes from celebrity clients: A new book is devoted to all things Valentino.

In V.E. Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil,” three women turned into vampires are thrown into a centuries-long drama of love, power and hunger.

In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.

In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.

In Jess Walter’s new novel, “So Far Gone,” a retired environmentalist turned recluse comes out of isolation to find his grandchildren.