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Jul 04, 2020
A leading historian, he wrote and taught in defense of the French language and its heritage and against "globish English."
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Jul 04, 2020
These journeys of the imagination explore what it means to be human.
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Jul 03, 2020
A longtime sportswriter, he collaborated with Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson and Mike Piazza on their autobiographies. "I was there," he once said, "to make the subject more literary."
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Jul 03, 2020
His coming-of-age novel "Bless Me, Ultima" reframed the way many in New Mexico viewed their own history, even as school districts tried to ban it.
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Jul 03, 2020
Feiffer talks about his new picture book and more, and Steve Inskeep discusses "Imperfect Union."
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Jul 02, 2020
A graphic review of Karl Polanyi's seminal work "The Great Transformation," which charted the social effects of capitalism.
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Jul 02, 2020
Irving Howe wrote for the Book Review about American literature — "moving from visions to problems, from ecstasy to trouble, from self to society" — on July 4, 1976. "Land of the free? Yes, but also home of the exploited."
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Jul 02, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 02, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 02, 2020
"Let Them Eat Tweets," by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, examines the ways in which the wealthy control the Republican Party.
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Jul 02, 2020
In "14 Miles," his exploration of life on the border, DW Gibson reveals the reality and fantasy of the president's desired wall.
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Jul 02, 2020
With a fresh voice and a winning cast, this Netflix update of the popular book series is the throwback that 2020 needs.
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Jul 02, 2020
One hundred years after the 19th Amendment, suffragists' descendants consider how far we've come and how far we still have to go.
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Jul 02, 2020
How do you write about Hollywood's most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.
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Jul 02, 2020
Christopher Buckley's "Make Russia Great Again," Jessica Anthony's "Enter the Aardvark" and the anthology "The Faking of the President" all have fun with American politics.
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Jul 02, 2020
At this crucial time of reckoning in American racial justice, this poem asks "What work … besides witness?"
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Jul 02, 2020
This author and illustrator is a mainstay across multiple categories. She hopes her work broadens the horizons of young readers.
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Jul 02, 2020
"Years ago I read everything by Hemingway and Raymond Carver. It's a different experience to read Elif Shafak and Lauren Groff."
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Jul 01, 2020
"Becoming Duchess Goldblatt" is a memoir by the writer behind a beloved fictional character whose fans include Lyle Lovett and Celeste Ng.
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Jul 01, 2020
An author, literary agent, marketer, publicist, editors and booksellers talk about how race affects their careers — and the books you read.
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Jul 01, 2020
The wildly popular series was marketed to girls. But its nuanced depiction of friendship provided a 9-year-old boy with an education that "boy books" did not.
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Jul 01, 2020
David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" recounts a little-remembered event and traces its significance to the politics of the present day.
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Jun 30, 2020
An excerpt from "Blue Ticket," by Sophie Mackintosh
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Jun 30, 2020
An excerpt from "Rigged," by David Shimer
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Jun 30, 2020
In Brian Castleberry's "Nine Shiny Objects," a broad cast of characters seek a different way of life in 20th-century America.
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Jun 30, 2020
Sophie Mackintosh's "Blue Ticket" imagines a dystopian world in which a girl's fate is chosen for her.
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Jun 30, 2020
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jun 30, 2020
David Shimer's "Rigged" provides the history and context behind Moscow's interference in the 2016 election.
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Jun 30, 2020
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s book, combining elements of biography, criticism and memoir, looks to Baldwin for instruction and guidance.
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Jun 29, 2020
Stefano Massini's "The Lehman Trilogy," a novel in verse related to his play of the same name, covers 160 years in the life of the Lehmans and their business.
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Jun 29, 2020
Mr. Sant'Anna wrote novels and poetry, but was most famous for stories that used a sardonic humor to skewer the fractures within Brazilian society. He died of the coronavirus.
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Jun 29, 2020
Amid the most profound social upheaval since the 1960s, these novelists, historians, poets, comedians and activists take a moment to look back to the literature.
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Jun 29, 2020
The actor's novel, "Memoirs and Misinformation," written with Dana Vachon, uses details from Carrey's life and career to tell a fictional tale of apocalypse and rebirth in Hollywood.
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Jun 28, 2020
"Sex and Vanity," Kwan's new novel, updates E.M. Forster's classic with a multinational cast and a lot less restraint.
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Jun 28, 2020
His novel was turned into an era-defining movie and made him a lot of money. But he was never comfortable with its success, and he chose to live in poverty.
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Jun 27, 2020
In Jenny Torres Sanchez' "We Are Not From Here," three Guatemalan teenagers embark on a harrowing journey through Mexico to the U.S. border.
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Jun 27, 2020
Erin Entrada Kelly's "We Dream of Space" follows three siblings, adrift in a dysfunctional family, as they await the shuttle Challenger's liftoff.
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Jun 27, 2020
"I'm done with shame," says Lacy Crawford, the author of the memoir "Notes on a Silencing."
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Jun 26, 2020
Richard Haass talks about his new primer on global affairs, and Abhrajyoti Chakraborty discusses translated novels.
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Jun 26, 2020
Looking for something to read this summer? Here are suggestions to entertain you, offer escape and stretch your horizons this season.
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Jun 26, 2020
In an influential book, he defied the idea that being gay, as he was, is an illness, and took on psychiatry's "history of homophobia." He died of the coronavirus.
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Jun 26, 2020
Katherine Hill's novel "A Short Move" follows a professional linebacker whose stardom on the field comes at a cost.
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Jun 26, 2020
In these four deeply unsettling novels, nothing is as it seems.
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Jun 26, 2020
She made daring arguments in "SCUM Manifesto," her case for a world without men. But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by one violent act.
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Jun 26, 2020
Authors aren't allowed mutual reviews in the Book Review anymore, but in the 1950s there was a moment of kismet.
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Jun 26, 2020
"Friends and Strangers," a new novel by J. Courtney Sullivan, examines the complex dynamic between a young mother and the college student who cares for her new baby.
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Jun 26, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 26, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 25, 2020
A scholar of European fascism (and a bomb attack target), he feared ultranationalism in Israel and saw West Bank settlements as "a cancer."
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Jun 25, 2020
Her novel "The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena," based on a real-life figure, chronicled a black woman's struggle under apartheid. Ms. Joubert had Covid-19.
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Jun 25, 2020
Amid the most profound social upheaval since the 1960s, these novelists, historians, poets, comedians and activists take a moment to look back to the literature.
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Jun 25, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 25, 2020
"I was actually quite pleased."
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Jun 25, 2020
"Korean Art From 1953," a lavish new book, is the most significant English-language overview yet of modern and contemporary art on the peninsula.
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Jun 25, 2020
"Aunt Nellie's Diary" was penned by the famous author when she was only 17. It has been published for the first time in The Strand Magazine.
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Jun 25, 2020
You can read or write a book from home just fine. Publishing one, however, remains a very social activity.
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Jun 25, 2020
The best-selling author and former minority leader for the Georgia House of Representatives has a lot going on, but she still makes time for fiction.
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Jun 25, 2020
The best-selling author and former minority leader for the Georgia House of Representatives has a lot going on, but she still makes time for fiction.
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Jun 25, 2020
Why the great Russian novelist's critique of state-sponsored violence bears thinking about now.
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Jun 25, 2020
We're being collected somewhere on video and in memory — and maybe we want to be.
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Jun 24, 2020
In "Muddy Matterhorn," Heather McHugh embraces puns, anagrams and other wordplay in the service of philosophical inquiry.
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Jun 24, 2020
His books about Thoreau, Emerson and William James won him national awards — and a fan letter from the celebrated author who would become his wife.
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Jun 24, 2020
This fantasy series clearly won't write itself.
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Jun 24, 2020
His new memoir "Lot Six" traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.
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Jun 24, 2020
His monumental dictionary, after years of fieldwork, documented Tzotzil in southern Mexico. But that was just the start of his efforts to preserve the culture.
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Jun 24, 2020
A memoir from the poet Natasha Trethewey; "Hamnet," Maggie O'Farrell's novel about Shakespeare; and "Too Much and Never Enough," an exposé about President Trump by his niece.
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Jun 24, 2020
Diane Johnson's "The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith" is a seething, stylish reclamation of Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith.
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Jun 23, 2020
"We are running as fast as we can," a Boston shop told customers who are clamoring for antiracism books that are soaring in popularity but hard to keep in stock.
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Jun 23, 2020
Amy Sherald, Michael R. Jackson and others discuss the challenges and opportunities of cultivating black audiences and dismantling historically white institutions.
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Jun 23, 2020
With her strident, pro-sex views, Despentes upsets people on the left and right. After years of being ignored and derided, she is finally being welcomed by France's literary establishment.
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Jun 23, 2020
An excerpt from "Love," by Roddy Doyle
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Jun 23, 2020
An excerpt from "The Biggest Bluff," Maria Konnikova
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Jun 23, 2020
The author of "The Power" went back and forth on whether she could keep writing fiction that suddenly seemed too close to reality.
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Jun 23, 2020
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jun 23, 2020
In "The Biggest Bluff," Maria Konnikova uses her own experience learning to beat the odds at poker to examine how much of life is chance and how much self-determined.
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Jun 23, 2020
In "Death in Her Hands," the latest book by the much admired author, a woman who may or may not be mad tries to solve a murder that may not have occurred.
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Jun 23, 2020
Susan Burton's memoir, "Empty," plumbs the depths of her adolescent anorexia and bingeing.
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Jun 23, 2020
"What's Left of Me Is Yours," a debut novel by Stephanie Scott, is inspired by the events surrounding an unlikely murder that occurred in Japan.
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Jun 23, 2020
Works by Yu Miri, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Adania Shibli and Nathacha Appanah examine inequality and political upheaval.
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Jun 22, 2020
Elizabeth Alexander reflects on her seminal Rodney King essay, the George Floyd killing and how the videos of police brutality exacerbate black grief.
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Jun 22, 2020
White supremacists saw his 1973 novel, "The Camp of the Saints," about a dark-skinned "invasion," as portending the end of Western civilization.
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Jun 22, 2020
In Roddy Doyle's novel "Love," a pair of lifelong drinking buddies reconnect to discuss life's amusements and regrets.
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Jun 21, 2020
Her writing paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.
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Jun 20, 2020
A story within a story that begins in a mysterious place known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, it is one of the most successful Spanish novels ever published.
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Jun 20, 2020
For children who have been indoors for a long time, these five picture books about the wonders of the natural world will be a breath of fresh air.
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Jun 20, 2020
The current protests are unprecedented in their number, scope and impact, but their newness is built on a long past, one that scholars have grappled with for decades.
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Jun 20, 2020
With two books in the works but all plans on hold, the writer is pacing New York City and destroying his Fitbit friends.
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Jun 19, 2020
His best-selling "Bible Code" books claimed that historical and future events were encoded in the Old Testament, although he couldn't explain how or why.
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Jun 19, 2020
The writer reflects on her seminal Rodney King essay, the George Floyd killing and how the videos of police brutality exacerbate black grief.
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Jun 19, 2020
In "Death in Her Hands," a 72-year-old widow finds a menacing note in the woods and tries to piece together what might have happened to a woman named Magda.
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Jun 18, 2020
Marilyn Stasio investigates summer's newest mysteries.
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Jun 18, 2020
Two new books, Masha Gessen's "Surviving Autocracy" and Eric A. Posner's "The Demagogue's Handbook," assess what we do — and don't — know about the president.
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Jun 18, 2020
In a long career with both DC and Marvel, Mr. O'Neil became best known for writing superhero comics that addressed social issues.
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Jun 18, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 18, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 18, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 18, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 18, 2020
Talley talks about his new memoir; Claudia Rankine and Jericho Brown read new poems; and Megha Majumdar discusses her debut novel, "A Burning."
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Jun 18, 2020
The last surviving sibling in a family that wrote itself into U.S. history, she was the first Kennedy woman of her generation to take on a serious political role.
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Jun 18, 2020
The last surviving sibling in a family that wrote itself into U.S. history, she was the first Kennedy woman of her generation to take on a serious political role.
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