NYT Books

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.

“Journalism is essential, but it can’t get at certain levels of experience — so I wrote a fable,” he says of “The Emergency,” his first novel in more than 25 years.

A novelist and biographer, she was also a preservationist, and her meticulous investigations of houses, villages and cities revealed intricate histories.

With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre’s hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here’s where to start.

“Black Arms to Hold You Up,” the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.

The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 2 to 4.

Twelve recommendations for fans of the Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club series.

Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.

His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.