New York Times Book Reviews

The author, most recently, of the Virgil Flowers novel “Holy Ghost” devotes specific spots to reading: “I like a good light, a good chair and a good book more than anything I can think of, except my wife.”

The judges called the novel an “exquisitely written and deeply humane exploration of grief.”

The late actor delivers the 20th-century author’s prose like you’ve never heard it before.

Hear from the firefighters, the residents and the scientists trying to find solutions.

The first lady’s memoir arrives just ahead of her multicity arena tour.

Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama cabinet member, reviews Ed Morales’s new book on the diversity and hybridity of Latino identity.

Filled with food, music and hard toil, selections of the two-time poet laureate’s work are brought together in “Monument.”

Andrew Roberts’s “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” tells the full story of an extraordinary life.

Kiese Laymon’s memoir, “Heavy,” is a son’s unflinching portrait of a mother whose violent love and exacting expectations were meant to protect him from harm.

Five new books touch on American Jewish identity and what will sustain it into the future.

In “Accessory to War,” the astrophysicist offers a history of space exploration and the ways it has been aided and abetted by warfare and its needs.

From 1969 to 1995, he tackled two or three books a week, making and breaking literary careers.

In “Becoming,” she talked about suffering a miscarriage, relying on IVF to conceive and the challenges of being the first African-American first lady.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert Scholes’s on Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”

A cross-cultural romance, a love triangle, a fake relationship and a girl in search of her birth mom in the latest realistic Y.A. fiction.

Why do critters feature in so many memorable kids books? Novels by Sharon Creech, Carl Hiaasen and more show once again how animals help us understand the world.

The latest from Jon Agee, Matthew Cordell and more present table-turning children, pants-wearing vegetables and even a touch of gastrointestinal humor.

David W. Blight talks about “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” and Bob Spitz talks about “Reagan: An American Journey.”

Finding and losing, playing and working, caring and staying true — dog books teach us about all those things while tugging at our heartstrings.