NYT Books

Three new story collections explore the vagaries of daily struggles.

The first book in A.F. Steadman’s middle grade fantasy series will enthrall young readers who are ready to put away childish things.

The physicist ranges widely — from black holes to Buddhism to climate change — in his new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.”

In “William Blake vs. the World,” John Higgs examines the visionary poet’s relevance to modernity.

In “True Biz,” the author, who is deaf, conjures the characters she wishes she’d known as she lost her hearing.

In Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, a boy from rural India becomes a tech mogul in a world consumed by Big Tech. What seemed impossible, she said, has become real, in life and in technology.

In Julie Phillips’s group portrait, Alice Neel, Doris Lessing, Ursula Le Guin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Angela Carter take on making art while parenting.

Ari Rabin-Havt’s “The Fighting Soul” provides a rare close-up of Bernie Sanders.

The author, whose second job was at a Barnes & Noble, has always found comfort on the page.

In the name of personal branding, influencers might be paying someone to make them look like readers. But does a novel deserve more respect than a handbag?