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In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House. By Fintan O’Toole In “Presence,” the historian Erin ...

As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black. By Richard Sandomir In books like “The ...

FSG lands Raven Leilani’s sophomore novel about women artists, Del Rey snags one of the buzziest books from this year’s London Book Fair, and more.

May 19, 2026 • A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking ...