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Dec 09, 2018
A Brooklyn novelist's annual trip to the Chilean countryside fuels daydreams of permanently moving. But peace and quiet can be so, well, exasperating.
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Dec 08, 2018
By the end of a typical year, hundreds of thousands of books in various styles, genres and subject areas are published. These three lists are meant to help you make sense of it all.
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Dec 08, 2018
Antonio Scurati, the author of "M," sees his book as an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel. Others disagree.
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Dec 07, 2018
Molly Stern will be replaced by David Drake. Gillian Blake will leave Henry Holt for Crown. The changes reflect a cyclical shift in the industry.
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Dec 07, 2018
Alan Wolfe discusses "The Politics of Petulance," and Nadja Spiegelman talks about two books by Lucia Berlin.
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Dec 07, 2018
Harper Lee's estate objected to elements of Aaron Sorkin's early stage adaptation. Now it arrives on Broadway with concessions from both sides.
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Dec 07, 2018
With "Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster," Stephen L. Carter celebrates his extraordinary grandmother.
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Dec 07, 2018
In "We Begin in Gladness," the poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher considers poets from W.S. Merwin to francine j. harris, in light of changes in their language and their influence on one another.
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Dec 07, 2018
"Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know" recounts the lives of the fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce — and the chaos they created.
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Dec 07, 2018
In two books he wrote about rudeness and how to avoid it. He also started a program to encourage the practice of good manners.
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Dec 07, 2018
There's nothing like the bond between grandparent and grandchild. New books by Tomie dePaola, Cecilia Ruiz and more show it in many forms.
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Dec 07, 2018
A nod to the classic English bildungsroman "Great Expectations," first serialized in December 1860.
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Dec 07, 2018
Four collections, in settings that range from Glasgow to an island in the Pacific Northwest, sketch troubled lives and a yearning for better times.
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Dec 07, 2018
Four collections, in settings that range from Glasgow to an island in the Pacific Northwest, sketch troubled lives and a yearning for better times.
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Dec 07, 2018
Richard Brookhiser's "John Marshall" looks at the accomplishments of the legendary chief justice and draws lessons for today.
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Dec 07, 2018
Alan Wolfe's "The Politics of Petulance" and Lawrence Lessig's "America, Compromised" offer differing diagnoses of the condition of the country.
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Dec 07, 2018
"Those Who Knew," a new novel by Idra Novey, takes place on an unnamed island, but in a world beset by problems unnervingly like our own.
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Dec 07, 2018
A.L. Kennedy's novella "The Little Snake" conjures the story of a young girl's friendship with a strangely powerful creature and how it will shape her life.
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Dec 07, 2018
It turns out that people have liked to give books as gifts for a long time. Here's a peek at how tastes have changed over the years.
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Dec 07, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Dec 06, 2018
The former first lady's long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family's trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago's South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.
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Dec 06, 2018
In William Boyd's novel of desire and deceit, a hunky Scottish piano tuner falls for a sexy Russian soprano.
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Dec 06, 2018
The best-selling writer of "Prep," "Eligible" and other novels edited "Atomic Marriage" with audio in mind.
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Dec 06, 2018
In "Interior States," Megan O'Gieblyn reconsiders her evangelical upbringing, and in "What if This Were Enough?" Heather Havrilesky renounces the "enforced cheer" of American culture.
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Dec 06, 2018
The former first lady's long-awaited new memoir, "Becoming," recounts with insight, candor and wit her family's trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago's South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.
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Dec 06, 2018
On the anniversary of the beloved holiday classic, we look back at some of The Times's coverage of the book and its author, Charles Dickens.
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Dec 06, 2018
On the anniversary of the beloved holiday classic, we look back at some of The Times's coverage of the author and his story over the years.
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Dec 06, 2018
The former first lady, whose new memoir is "Becoming," admires Zadie Smith's novel "White Teeth" for its complexity and humor: "Even if a book takes on serious topics, I think it should still be fun to read."
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Dec 05, 2018
At a time when many of the Soviet Union's greatest authors left the country, he stayed, despite sometimes incurring official wrath.
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Dec 05, 2018
In "Bringing Down the Colonel," Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry.
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Dec 05, 2018
The elder Bush died on Friday, and the public is now reckoning with his legacy.
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Dec 05, 2018
Donald and Patricia Oresman's 550-piece art collection was auctioned recently. Every piece had one thing in common: people were reading in them.
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Dec 05, 2018
The second and final volume of Zachary Leader's "The Life of Saul Bellow" is a portrait of a writer struggling to contend with the consequences of fame.
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Dec 04, 2018
Scholastique Mukasonga's newly translated memoir is about the impact of the Rwandan genocide, during which 37 of her family members were killed.
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Dec 04, 2018
In her memoir, "Why Religion?," Elaine Pagels tells the story of her own deep loss and her search for answers in faith and spirituality.
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Dec 04, 2018
Life is hard enough. Baking doesn't have to be. Our three favorite books inspire but don't intimidate.
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Dec 04, 2018
In "Evening in Paradise," a volume of short stories, and "Welcome Home," a memoir unfinished at her death, the cult writer cements her status as a revered chronicler of America's lost corners.
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Dec 04, 2018
The Times's staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
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Dec 04, 2018
The Times's staff critics talk with each other about the wide variety of reading they did in 2018.
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Dec 04, 2018
The former staff critic and frequent contributor to The Times writes about her best reading experiences of the year.
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Dec 03, 2018
The beloved independent shop with 18 miles of books says that landmark status for its building could be a death blow.
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Dec 03, 2018
The cookbook "Avocaderia" contains multiple recipes for avocado toast, plus ideas for pancakes, drinks and desserts starring the avocado.
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Dec 03, 2018
The beloved independent shop with 18 miles of books says that landmark status for its building could be a death blow.
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Dec 03, 2018
What's it like seeing your misunderstood profession onstage, with Daniel Radcliffe as a version of you?
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Dec 03, 2018
In Anna Burns's novel, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, an unnamed girl is menaced by a political dissident's affections.
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Dec 03, 2018
The Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma recalls how his father's gift for storytelling led his son to discover the worlds between covers.
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Dec 03, 2018
In his new collection of essays, "The End of the End of the Earth," Franzen complains about groups that emphasize climate change at the expense of conservation.
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Dec 02, 2018
Marina Benjamin's lyrical look at sleeplessness asks philosophical and psychological questions about the inability to get a good night's rest.
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Dec 01, 2018
Regional productions of the Broadway hits are the subject of a legal dispute between competing theater operators.
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Dec 01, 2018
In "Congo Tales," a new book about the second-largest tropical forest in the world, the story of a people and their home comes alive.
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Nov 30, 2018
In "Beastie Boys Book," Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz gather their memories, mementos and a lot more to offer a celebration of their band.
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Nov 30, 2018
In "Beastie Boys Book," Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz gather their memories, mementos and a lot more to offer a celebration of their band.
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Nov 30, 2018
The parade of rock memoirs continues, but "Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite" is a really good one.
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Nov 30, 2018
He survived the Great Depression. He fought the Nazis in World War II. And at 87 he turned to writing and agitating, and acquired a loyal following.
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Nov 30, 2018
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year's outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
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Nov 30, 2018
The anthology comic book, first created to aid those affected by the June 2016 attack at the Pulse nightclub, is now benefiting the Trevor Project.
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Nov 30, 2018
Fans of Netflix's hit supernatural mystery will find all kinds of clues to the show's third season in a new companion book.
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Nov 30, 2018
In "The Grandmaster," Brin-Jonathan Butler covers the 2016 World Chess Championship, which pit Norway's Magnus Carlsen against Russia's Sergey Karjakin.
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Nov 30, 2018
Think of Ben Schott's "Jeeves and the King of Clubs" as "Downton Abbey" with a laugh track.
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Nov 30, 2018
With "Heresy," Melissa Lenhardt has delivered an all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West.
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Nov 30, 2018
John Strausbaugh's "Victory City" describes a time of great heroes, and great villainy too.
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Nov 30, 2018
In Samantha Harvey's immersive new novel, "The Western Wind," the village priest spends four days unraveling a local murder.
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Nov 30, 2018
A book on the Weavers and another on protest songs examine the connections between music and politics.
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Nov 30, 2018
Miranda Seymour's dual biography, "In Byron's Wake," chronicles the lives of his widow, Annabella Milbanke, and his daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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Nov 30, 2018
The fans of her two series — the Inheritance trilogy and the Broken Earth trilogy — will find much to love in her new collection, "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?"
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Nov 30, 2018
"Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly," by Joshua Rivkin, the first biography of the artist, is a deeply personal work — as much about the biographer as his subject.
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Nov 30, 2018
"City of Light," by Rupert Christiansen, recounts Georges-Eugène Haussmann's swift modernization of Paris in the mid-19th century.
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Nov 30, 2018
"The Last Poets," by Christine Otten, is a novelized account of the radical Harlem spoken-word group whose style and themes paved the way for contemporary rappers.
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Nov 30, 2018
Massive and lavish boxed sets give Bridget Riley and Lucian Freud their due.
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Nov 30, 2018
With seven hit novels, now the basis of a blockbuster TV show, Volker Kutscher has helped ignite a debate in Germany about whether history is repeating itself.
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Nov 30, 2018
With seven hit novels, now the basis of a blockbuster TV show, Volker Kutscher has helped ignite a debate in Germany about whether history is repeating itself.
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Nov 30, 2018
Jason Lutes's "Berlin," over two decades in the making, explores a society on the verge of collapse. One of two books reviewed in Ed Park's Graphic Content column.
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Nov 30, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 30, 2018
Ahead of the fifth and final season of "Broad City," its co-creator and co-star leaves New York to see the country, finding herself (and some good laughs) along the way.
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Nov 30, 2018
Ahead of the fifth and final season of "Broad City," its co-creator and co-star leaves New York to see the country, finding herself (and some good laughs) along the way.
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Nov 30, 2018
Our romance columnist, Jaime Green, picks her fall favorites.
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Nov 30, 2018
As the weather grows wetter and colder, it's an excellent time to hole up with fantastical new fiction.
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Nov 30, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: a vintage review of holiday books.
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Nov 30, 2018
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nov 30, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 30, 2018
A graphic gift guide revealing what every reader truly wishes for during the holidays.
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Nov 30, 2018
Greg Boehm, who owns some 3,000 vintage books on mixology and drinking culture, has made his collection of rare recipes public. Here he discusses the evolution of cocktail culture in the city, which he describes as "a tricky place right now."
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Nov 30, 2018
A kid-friendly guide to great art from David Hockney, an illustrated update of "The Jungle Book," a travel book for fearless young explorers and more.
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Nov 30, 2018
Hilary Spurling's "Anthony Powell" relates the life of an author who is overlooked except for one major work, the multivolume "A Dance to the Music of Time."
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Nov 30, 2018
"Battlefields," by Yan Morvan, "Bears Ears," by Stephen E. Strom, and Peter and Beverly Pickford's "Wild Land" transport readers, through stunning images, to the farthest corners of our planet.
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Nov 30, 2018
Ruth Reichl retrieves memories of her own childhood as she reviews Nina Stibbe's guide to making it through the holidays, "An Almost Perfect Christmas."
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Nov 30, 2018
In a new book about the history of the famous role-playing game, a group of authors present hundreds of visual artifacts.
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Nov 30, 2018
Both Turner's "My Story," a sequel to 1986's "I, Tina," and "Anything for a Hit," from the music scout Dorothy Carvello, expose the sleazy power dynamics of the rock 'n' roll business.
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Nov 30, 2018
Ravens, love affairs and, yes, dirty laundry all shed light on the comings and goings of British royalty.
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Nov 30, 2018
Readers will delight in the unexpected characters in three new mysteries, from the female police cadet in Louise Penny's new book to a crime-solving cub reporter down on his luck.
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Nov 30, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 30, 2018
The author, whose 1980 novella "Nightflyers" has been adapted into a series by Syfy, discusses the series and his "Game of Thrones" prequel.
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Nov 29, 2018
Novels, stories, mystery series and memoirs by female authors paint a variegated portrait of the Pine Tree State.
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Nov 29, 2018
In "The Indispensable Composers," the New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini chooses the best of the bunch.
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Nov 29, 2018
After a backlash, the Mystery Writers of America will not honor Linda Fairstein, a former city prosecutor turned author, as one of its Grand Masters.
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Nov 29, 2018
After a backlash, the Mystery Writers of America will not honor Linda Fairstein, a former city prosecutor turned author, as one of its Grand Masters.
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Nov 29, 2018
This week in El Espace: tension at the Mexican border, why Latino Jews are moving to Spain and more.
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Nov 29, 2018
Anna Burns, who for the last four and a half years has suffered from debilitating back pain and spent much of that time relying on state benefits, talks about the future.
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Nov 29, 2018
These five new volumes investigate some of the most basic issues raised by wine, while posing new questions and inspiring thirst.
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Nov 29, 2018
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
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