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Jul 01, 2025
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.
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Jul 01, 2025
In "The CIA Book Club," Charlie English tells the story of America's war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.
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Jul 01, 2025
A childhood friendship in upper-class Beijing is tested by envy, ambition and relentless materialism.
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Jul 01, 2025
Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.
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Jul 01, 2025
In "The Beast in the Clouds," Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow.
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Jun 30, 2025
Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.
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Jun 30, 2025
Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more.
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Jun 29, 2025
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.
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Jun 29, 2025
Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should have dealt with it sooner.
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Jun 29, 2025
Our critic on the month's best new books.
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Jun 28, 2025
Our columnist on some stellar recent releases.
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Jun 28, 2025
André Breton's 1928 novel "Nadja" pays homage to a great love and to a great city.
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Jun 27, 2025
He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality.
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Jun 27, 2025
Virginia Woolf's classic novel, celebrating its 100th anniversary, is the topic of this month's discussion.
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Jun 27, 2025
He walked away from his family's hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
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Jun 27, 2025
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss "The Catch," a psychological thriller about twin sisters and their mother, whom they had presumed dead.
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Jun 27, 2025
"Mansfield Park" continues to complicate the writer's legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel's dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.
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Jun 26, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 26, 2025
Her 76 books included "Life as We Knew It," a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.
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Jun 26, 2025
The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.
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Jun 25, 2025
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
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Jun 25, 2025
He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point.
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Jun 25, 2025
A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.
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Jun 25, 2025
A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.
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Jun 25, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you've saved most to your reading lists.
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Jun 25, 2025
The award-winning mystery novelist's new book, "Ecstasy," is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides' play "The Bacchae."
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Jun 25, 2025
"No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate," says the fantasy writer, whose new book is "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil."
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Jun 24, 2025
Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird's satirical novel, "The Nimbus," strains for the heavenly.
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Jun 24, 2025
Along with some 100 images of everyday objects and scenes, "Point Blank" will include vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton.
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Jun 24, 2025
"The Compound" takes place on the set of a deeply twisted reality TV show.
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Jun 24, 2025
In "Make It Ours," Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer's short, historic career.
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Jun 24, 2025
John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, "Cemeteries and Galaxies," are full of reflection and digression and probing.
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Jun 23, 2025
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
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Jun 23, 2025
Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe's licentious, ultraliberal capital.
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Jun 23, 2025
In Leila Mottley's new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to support one another.
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Jun 22, 2025
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.
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Jun 22, 2025
Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.
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Jun 21, 2025
An architect, he wrote in his book "Lost New York" about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city's landmarks preservation law.
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Jun 21, 2025
In "Everything Is Now," J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the '60s.
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Jun 21, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.
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Jun 21, 2025
Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.
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Jun 20, 2025
8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.
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Jun 20, 2025
And A.O. Scott on the joys inherent in giving poems a close read.
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Jun 20, 2025
A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.
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Jun 20, 2025
In his candid memoir "Comedy Samurai," the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end.
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Jun 20, 2025
Amy Bloom's "I'll Be Right Here" zigzags between Paris and Poughkeepsie as it shares the saga of Algerian siblings and their chosen family.
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Jun 20, 2025
The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.
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Jun 20, 2025
Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha's Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.
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Jun 19, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 19, 2025
With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel "The Palm-Wine Drinkard."
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Jun 19, 2025
Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.
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Jun 19, 2025
"I try to fight this lamentable tendency," he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. "Odyssey" is the fourth in his series on Greek mythology.
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Jun 18, 2025
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
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Jun 18, 2025
Heather Clark's debut novel, "The Scrapbook," considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.
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Jun 18, 2025
In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.
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Jun 18, 2025
In Karim Dimechkie's "The Uproar," the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.
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Jun 17, 2025
Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In "The Sisters," Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.
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Jun 17, 2025
He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society's marginalized.
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Jun 17, 2025
Her lawyers urged that she keep her testimony short. With legal victories in hand, she's sharing her life story, and what it was like on the stand.
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Jun 17, 2025
In her new book, "Toni at Random," Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer's time working in publishing.
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Jun 17, 2025
In Heather Clark's novel, "The Scrapbook," an American girl meets a German boy and falls head over heels — and headfirst into a history of fascism.
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Jun 17, 2025
"Fox" details the devastation wrought by a manipulative English teacher who sexually abuses his students.
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Jun 16, 2025
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.
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Jun 16, 2025
Michelle Huneven's novel "Bug Hollow" begins with a tragedy in 1970s California. The ramifications are felt across three countries and five decades.
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Jun 16, 2025
Leigh Claire La Berge's memoir looks back at her stint as a consultant for a Fortune 500 company at the turn of the millennium: "Is this how companies are put together?"
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Jun 16, 2025
Joe Westmoreland captures the pleasures and pains of American wanderlust in his forgotten classic "Tramps Like Us."
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Jun 16, 2025
The technology's ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?
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Jun 16, 2025
Dennard Dayle's satirical new book, "How to Dodge a Cannonball," follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier.
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Jun 15, 2025
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women's health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.
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Jun 15, 2025
Catherine Lacey's "The Möbius Book" is both an elliptical novella and a seething memoir. Decoding the connections is at once frustrating and exhilarating.
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Jun 14, 2025
A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.
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Jun 14, 2025
That is, until war breaks out. "Endling," by Maria Reva, is an ambitious whirlwind of a novel, set in Ukraine on the brink of disaster.
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Jun 14, 2025
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.
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Jun 14, 2025
John Birdsall's "What Is Queer Food?" and Erik Piepenburg's "Dining Out" both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.
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Jun 14, 2025
John Birdsall's "What Is Queer Food?" and Erik Piepenburg's "Dining Out" both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.
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Jun 13, 2025
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded, and deceived, SS officer.
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Jun 13, 2025
"Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President" includes reflections on being asked to testify about her sex life, as well as the thrill of winning two lawsuits.
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Jun 13, 2025
The culture critic Brian Raftery, who wrote about "Jaws" for the Book Review last year, discusses the movie's anniversary with Gilbert Cruz.
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Jun 13, 2025
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.
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Jun 13, 2025
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.
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Jun 13, 2025
Two children's novels take a gimlet-eyed look at the price of gifts with "no strings attached."
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Jun 12, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 12, 2025
Archival photographs, fashion layouts and anecdotes from celebrity clients: A new book is devoted to all things Valentino.
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Jun 12, 2025
Now attached to Bard College, the literary journal is about to publish new commentary and a popular historical feature. Next year: the print magazine.
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Jun 12, 2025
Plus: a cliff-top hotel in Brittany, dynamic sculptures at New York's Japan Society and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Jun 12, 2025
In "Submersed," Matthew Gavin Frank takes on the undersea universe of amateur submarine enthusiasts — and one obsession turned deadly.
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Jun 12, 2025
His go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires "Brothers and Keepers" and "The New Jim Crow" on incarceration. "The River Is Waiting" is his new novel.
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Jun 12, 2025
Looking for a swoony, feel-good read? Our romance columnist will be updating this list all year.
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Jun 11, 2025
Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.
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Jun 11, 2025
Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him carried it forward.
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Jun 10, 2025
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.
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Jun 10, 2025
In a scrappy new memoir, Jeff Weiss blurs fact and fancy as he recounts his stint as a bit player in the celebrity-industrial complex.
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Jun 10, 2025
In V.E. Schwab's "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil," three women turned into vampires are thrown into a centuries-long drama of love, power and hunger.
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Jun 10, 2025
In S.A. Cosby's new book, "King of Ashes," a wealthy investment manager must return to his crumbling hometown and protect his family from a bloodthirsty gang.
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Jun 10, 2025
In today's overtouristed world, should a professional traveler broadcast his discoveries or hide them away?
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Jun 09, 2025
He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.
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Jun 09, 2025
He wrote best-sellers like "The Day of the Jackal" and "The Dogs of War," often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.
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Jun 09, 2025
Thomas Mallon looks back on the AIDS crisis, the heyday of magazines and an exhilarating city in "The Very Heart of It."
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Jun 09, 2025
A collection of Quino's translated works will provide new audiences a taste of the satirical comic compared to "Charlie Brown with socialism."
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Jun 09, 2025
Looking for a Father's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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