NYT Books

“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it. I just typically can finish writing a single poem faster than I can an entire narrative book!”

“Accidental Gods,” by Anna Della Subin, is about “men unwittingly turned divine,” including Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Douglas MacArthur and others.

Gorman’s latest poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” offers reverence and effervescence, gravity and impishness, and poems that are focused, pithy and playfully heretical.

“Where You Come From,” by Sasa Stanisic, is an autobiographical novel about a life uprooted by war.

“The Women I Love,” by Francesco Pacifico, finds a writer of bawdy satires in a more contemplative mood.

Beginning with an acclaimed erotic novel, she became what the prime minister called “one of the most important writers of our time.”

Our critic recommends old and new books.

Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir, “Lucky.” Its publisher said Tuesday that it would stop distributing the book.

It’s unclear who checked out “New Chronicles of Rebecca” by Kate Douglas Wiggin from a library in Boise, or who had it all these decades. But the book remained in immaculate shape.

“In Case of Emergency,” a novel by Mahsa Mohebali, offers an antic portrait of a mind on edge in contemporary Iran.