New York Times Book Reviews

Ben Macintyre’s new book, “The Spy and the Traitor,” recounts the extraordinary stories of the Soviet Oleg Gordievsky and the American Aldrich Ames, spies who betrayed their countries.

A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

Steven Johnson’s “Farsighted” looks at those fork-in-the-road moments that can forever alter the future.

Fiction, both imaginative and realist, rooted in a powerful sense of place.

In new books from Daniel José Older, M.T. Anderson and more, readers can root for orphans, apprentices, elves and goblins as they battle evildoers.

Paige Williams tells a panoramic story that has, at its center, a man who tried to sell a stolen Tyrannosaurus skeleton from Mongolia.

To write “American Prison,” the prizewinning reporter Shane Bauer spent four months undercover at a privately run Louisiana prison. What he found was shocking.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Rebecca Traister‘s writing has placed her at the center of the feminist conversation for years. Her new book on women’s rage should keep her there.

“The Piranhas” follows a group of teenage thugs terrorizing the streets of Naples.

Why does Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part epic share a title with Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”? “The payoff is in volume 6,” says Daniel Mendelsohn.

Three collections introduce three new fiction writers — Rita Bullwinkel, Mark Leidner and Kim Magowan — to the literary scene.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Deborah Harkness, a professor who studies the history of magic and alchemy, spins her research into novels like “Time’s Convert.”

An earlier version of Oscar Wilde’s controversial novel contains homoerotic undertones which he edited out for the final book.

Amitava Kumar’s “Immigrant, Montana” tells of the acculturation of a young Indian man looking to find his way in America.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Ernesto Montenegro on “Desolación,” by Gabriela Mistral.

“Presto and Zesto in Limboland,” a collaboration with the writer and director Arthur Yorinks, weaves a zany tale out of 10 inimitably Sendakian images.

In Kate Walbert’s “His Favorites,” a woman once groomed by her charismatic prep-school English teacher decides to reckon with the relationship.