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Aug 27, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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Aug 27, 2026
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn's protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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Aug 27, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Aug 27, 2026
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes you to her favorite bookstores in Park Slope/Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This tour offers readers a variety of genres, new books and used books.
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Aug 26, 2026
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," a butler in "Clue" or a singing King Arthur in "Spamalot."
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Aug 26, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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Aug 26, 2026
Susan Sontag gave that high praise to "A Book of Memories" (1986), a labyrinthine chronicle of life under Communism.
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Aug 26, 2026
The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast "Killer in the Code." But despite critics' skepticism, he finds the evidence "completely convincing."
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Aug 26, 2026
The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast "Killer in the Code." But despite critics' skepticism, he finds the evidence "completely convincing."
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Aug 26, 2026
The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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Aug 26, 2026
Novels by Marlon James, Emma Cline, Hernan Diaz and John Green; nonfiction by Emily Wilson and Robert Kolker; and more.
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Aug 26, 2026
A new book of essays by the celebrated classicist captures her excitement for her subject matter and the surprising range of her references.
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Aug 26, 2026
Novels by Marlon James, Emma Cline, Hernan Diaz and John Green; nonfiction by Emily Wilson and Robert Kolker; and more.
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Aug 26, 2026
How Peter Grainger, an English mystery writer, self-published his way into prominence.
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Aug 25, 2026
An economic historian and political maverick, he was a sometimes polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.
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Aug 25, 2026
In an evocative new memoir, the journalist Wilbert L. Cooper explores the history, and paradoxes, of race and policing in Cleveland, his hometown.
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Aug 24, 2026
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.
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Aug 24, 2026
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.
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Aug 24, 2026
Our columnist on three of the month's best releases.
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Aug 24, 2026
I traveled around the country to find out if "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" still has a place in the classroom.
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Aug 24, 2026
In "The Time Tax," the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.
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Aug 24, 2026
In Jennifer Hillier's new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her seaside town.
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Aug 23, 2026
In "Up on Cove Mountain" Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.
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Aug 23, 2026
Four authors grapple with the fight over American identity, from the colonial era to the modern day.
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Aug 22, 2026
The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.
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Aug 22, 2026
In "The Great Wherever," generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.
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Aug 22, 2026
"The Anniversary," a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.
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Aug 22, 2026
Our columnist on four of the month's best releases.
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Aug 21, 2026
William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.
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Aug 21, 2026
She published two books about her famous mother but didn't fully embrace the family business until her late 50s, when she began writing "Dear Prudence" for Slate.
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Aug 21, 2026
He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.
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Aug 21, 2026
In Kurt Andersen's new novel, "The Breakup," a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.
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Aug 21, 2026
Works by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.
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Aug 21, 2026
Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, "Life of M" remains chilly and abstract.
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Aug 20, 2026
"Lots of white space on a page. Short paragraphs that move." This month Apple TV airs Season 2 of a series based on his 2016 sci-fi thriller "Dark Matter."
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Aug 19, 2026
Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.
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Aug 19, 2026
In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.
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Aug 18, 2026
In "The Book of Chuck," clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.
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Aug 18, 2026
In "Range," by the Danish writer Dorthe Nors, a misfit astrophysicist lives alone in the wilderness, struggling to connect.
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Aug 17, 2026
In Edwidge Danticat's new novel, "Dèy," a Haitian American mother in Miami experiences the numbing aftershocks of a random act of violence.
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Aug 17, 2026
A terrifying personal experience inspired Edwidge Danticat's fifth novel, which is set in Miami and Brooklyn, but with Haiti always in mind.
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Aug 16, 2026
A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.
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Aug 16, 2026
Are the 30-somethings in Katy Simpson Smith's "The Maltese Version" in love? That depends on how you define it.
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Aug 15, 2026
In "Days of Miracle and Wonder," Ashley Kahn revisits the "trials and triumphs" of Paul Simon's "Graceland."
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Aug 14, 2026
Mr. Arday resigned last week after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.
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Aug 14, 2026
The British police said a man had been found dead at a home linked to Mr. Arday, who resigned after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.
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Aug 14, 2026
From carefree dabblers to book group die-hards, everyone, it seems, has an opinion. Just don't tell them theirs is wrong.
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Aug 14, 2026
New works cover everything from dreams to gods to insomnia.
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Aug 14, 2026
Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times's "50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century" list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.
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Aug 13, 2026
From "Slow Horses" to "Big Little Lies," our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.
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Aug 13, 2026
The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.
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Aug 13, 2026
The eminent critic Harold Bloom called his 1981 book "Little, Big" a "neglected masterpiece" and one of the best novels of the 20th century.
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Aug 13, 2026
"The Revolution of Everyday Life," published in 1967, was his cri de coeur against mindless work, materialism and authority.
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Aug 13, 2026
The chance to see the hideaway from the hit queer hockey romance lured me to Canada's cottage country. But it was the glistening lakes and weep-worthy sunsets that won me over.
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Aug 12, 2026
She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.
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Aug 12, 2026
An ungainly new biography by the German philosopher Thomas Meyer purports to situate Arendt in the context of her own era.
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Aug 12, 2026
Paul Theroux traced the British coastline in 1982 for his book ‘The Kingdom by the Sea.' This year he walked parts of the new King Charles III England Coast Path, a continuous route along the country's seashore.
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Aug 12, 2026
The best-selling author Hannah Whitten recommends thrillers, horror, fantasy novels and more about the misdeeds of the ultrawealthy (and their comeuppance).
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Aug 11, 2026
He spent decades as a magazine editor and wrote an acclaimed history of small-town America, as well as biographies of the novelists Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.
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Aug 11, 2026
In "Sunrise," Téa Obreht mashes up Western gothic, murder mystery and survival saga.
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Aug 11, 2026
In his new book, Chang-rae Lee follows a 10-year-old into the social powder kegs of schoolyards and summer camps.
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Aug 11, 2026
In Richard Russo's new novel, "Under the Falls," a singer reckons with his troubled past and the community he left behind.
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Aug 10, 2026
The former president will discuss works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson, among others, in a podcast that will premiere in September.
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Aug 10, 2026
The British scholar resigned from Cambridge after the university, which made him its youngest Black professor in 2023, began investigating his academic qualifications.
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Aug 10, 2026
In his new book, Joby Warrick traces the rise and fall of Carlos the Jackal, the notorious terrorist-for-hire.
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Aug 09, 2026
Julie Kliegman's thorough biography of the transgender tennis player is fascinatingly complicated by her changed stance on gender and sports.
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Aug 09, 2026
Is it shameful, or sensible, to put down a book you don't enjoy? Three little letters, and social media, have turbocharged a longstanding debate.
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Aug 08, 2026
A superfan of thrillers recommends some of her favorites.
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Aug 08, 2026
"A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving," by Virginia Eubanks, is a memoir of what happened after her partner survived a brutal attack — and her own will to endure.
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Aug 07, 2026
After 20 years in the C.I.A., he emerged as an outspoken critic of the agency and as a leader of the election-denial movement in Pennsylvania.
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Aug 07, 2026
In "The Responsible Party," a novel by Claire Carusillo, a woman named Claire Carusillo vapes her way through her wild family history.
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Aug 07, 2026
A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles's architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.
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Aug 07, 2026
These recommendations should tide over fans of Jeff Kinney's laugh-out-loud illustrated novels until the next installment.
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Aug 07, 2026
These recommendations should tide over fans of Jeff Kinney's laugh-out-loud illustrated novels until the next installment.
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Aug 06, 2026
In his groundbreaking "La Technique," Jacques Pépin showed Americans how to do everything from carving swans out of apples to breaking down lamb.
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Aug 06, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 06, 2026
A new animated special, "The Day You Begin," based on the best-selling picture book, emphasizes the richness that diversity brings to a community.
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Aug 06, 2026
The director of slasher films that defined horror from the 1970s through the '90s realizes his latest work, "Cathedral," as both a graphic novel and a hard-rock album.
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Aug 06, 2026
His 2023 thriller "The Only One Left" has been on the best-seller list there for nearly a year. "The Unknown," his 10th novel, is out this month.
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Aug 06, 2026
Our critic on four terrific new releases.
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Aug 05, 2026
Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.
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Aug 05, 2026
"Stones From the River," her best-known work and an early Oprah's Book Club selection, was set in a fictional German town in the early 20th century.
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Aug 04, 2026
Kimon de Greef's "The Ego Trip" is an enthralling, galling journey into the deeply weird underbelly of the psychedelic renaissance.
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Aug 04, 2026
Claudia Rankine's latest autobiographical work, "Triage," asks how best to effect change in the world.
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Aug 04, 2026
In "Don't Be Evil," Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
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Aug 04, 2026
The Italian best seller "All That Is Left of Life" is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980.
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Aug 03, 2026
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig's head outside his parents' door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he's been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
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Aug 03, 2026
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig's head outside his parents' door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he's been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
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Aug 03, 2026
Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.
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Aug 03, 2026
Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. "Voices From the Kitchen" highlights workers who get far less attention.
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Aug 03, 2026
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose "A People's History of the United States" has sold millions of copies.
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Aug 03, 2026
In Fiona Mozley's novel "Awake Awake," a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas.
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Aug 02, 2026
Millions look to Nicole LePera for advice on how to achieve contentment and maintain healthy relationships. But her own story is complicated.
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Aug 02, 2026
In "The Story of Your Life," Kathryn Jezer-Morton explores, without castigating, the wish to present a curated version of experience via social media.
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Aug 02, 2026
Paul Yoon's deeply moving novel "Etna" explores the aftermath of war with an unconventional narrator.
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Aug 02, 2026
Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.
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Aug 01, 2026
"Plant Lady," by the Korean novelist Minyoung Kang, imagines an urban haven for women who need an escape from dangerous men.
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Aug 01, 2026
In Riley Sager's "The Unknown," actresses on a research trip stumble into a paranormal mystery.
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Jul 31, 2026
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and '60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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Jul 31, 2026
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.
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