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Oct 22, 2018
A slew of ghosts in recent books are a vessel for the country's collective terror and guilt.
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Oct 21, 2018
She is a sociologist, poet, Twitter maven, Chicago cultural celebrity and newly minted Marvel Comics writer. But don't ask Dr. Ewing about her superpowers.
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Oct 21, 2018
In "University of Nike," Joshua Hunt examines the University of Oregon and Nike as a case study for the relationship between public institutions and corporate benefactors.
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Oct 20, 2018
Books on Saudi Arabian history and politics shed light on the Saud family's reign.
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Oct 19, 2018
Ms. Anthony was one of the few women to explore the espionage genre. "I am basically an entertainer, and I'm very proud of it," she said.
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Oct 19, 2018
Translating is "like acting," said Ms. Bell, the rare practitioner who became a well-known name in her own right.
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Oct 19, 2018
Orlean discusses "The Library Book," about a 1986 blaze in Los Angeles that damaged or destroyed more than a million books.
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Oct 19, 2018
"Unsheltered," a big, gripping, emotionally complex novel on the same scale as "The Poisonwood Bible," explores what it means to have a safe place in the world.
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Oct 19, 2018
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's debut story collection has been compared to works by literary masters like Isaac Babel, Ralph Ellison and Anton Chekhov.
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Oct 19, 2018
Some of New York City's most sumptuous and meticulously designed homes are celebrated in a new book.
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Oct 19, 2018
The graphic artist Kristen Radtke recalls the influence that a book about the seas had on her young imagination.
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Oct 19, 2018
Nate Chinen on "jazz for the new century"; Wendy Lesser's biography of a great choreographer; and the most entertaining theatrical rivalry ever.
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Oct 19, 2018
Sibling truces, outrageous wordplay, being a kid in Beijing and more in the latest delights for the smallest readers and listeners.
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Oct 19, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Oct 19, 2018
Derek Leebaert's "Grand Improvisation" tells a complicated story of post-World War II Europe with Washington often operating in a fog.
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Oct 19, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Oct 19, 2018
An intercontinental romance ends in tragedy in Heather Taylor-Johnson's debut, "Jean Harley Was Here."
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Oct 19, 2018
Imogen Hermes Gowar's historical novel sets a sharp-clawed sea creature adrift on the raucous social tides of 18th-century London.
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Oct 19, 2018
James Patterson offers movie reviews; John Sandford provides statistics on his use of profanities; Tana French promises readers something remarkable.
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Oct 19, 2018
Marilyn Stasio's Crime column sets readers on the trail of stalkers and sleuths, from Iceland to Denmark to an archaeological museum in Chicago.
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Oct 19, 2018
Lars Petter Sveen's "Children of God," his first novel to be translated into English, presents a problematic portrayal of Jesus Christ.
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Oct 19, 2018
"One Part Woman," by the Tamil novelist Perumal Murugan, imagines the pain of childlessness for a rural Indian couple during the colonial era.
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Oct 19, 2018
Jane and Dorothy wed in the last installment (for now) of Paige Braddock's 20-year-old strip.
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Oct 18, 2018
The merger comes at a moment when big publishing houses are still adapting to the shift toward online retail and marketing.
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Oct 18, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 18, 2018
Suzanne Collins's lead character in The Hunger Games trilogy is a timely reminder to all who care to heed it: Teenage girls are powerful and courageous and capable of great rage.
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Oct 18, 2018
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first book in the trilogy, here is an excerpt from an interview between the publisher and the author.
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Oct 18, 2018
There is some cozy reading in store for those who like to stay steeped in the city's sociopolitical history, including tales of war heroes and mob bosses.
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Oct 18, 2018
The film, directed by Paul Dano and starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, is a domestic drama both sad and terrifying.
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Oct 18, 2018
Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man" argues that despite some expedient compromises, the Constitution's writers were careful to plant the seeds of abolition.
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Oct 18, 2018
The singer, whose memoir "My Love Story" has just been published, wishes Mick Jagger would write an autobiography: "He can outtalk anyone on the planet. That's the book I want to read, and so will everybody else. Mick?"
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Oct 18, 2018
"Rationalization was much easier than recognizing the gravity of what was lost: an innocent, healthy childhood and an introduction to sexuality on my terms."
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Oct 17, 2018
Her previous memoirs delved into her parents' traumatic influence. Now, in "On Sunset," she introduces the beloved Old World grandparents who raised her.
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Oct 17, 2018
Young adult and middle grade fiction to educate children in the vast terrain of Native American history.
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Oct 17, 2018
David W. Blight's "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" is an ambitious and empathetic biography of a major American life.
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Oct 17, 2018
"Her hovering is so fierce that it penetrates the walls," said Sonny Mehta, the company's chairman and editor in chief.
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Oct 17, 2018
The Library of Congress says it has digitized the largest collection of Theodore Roosevelt's papers in the world.
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Oct 17, 2018
Judith Newman's latest Help Desk column ventures into the minefield of marriage, dating, desire — and divorce.
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Oct 16, 2018
The judges cited her use of dark humor to explore tribalism, state-sponsored terrorism, social division and sexual and political oppression.
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Oct 16, 2018
In Perumal Murugan's "One Part Woman," a religious festival allows childless women to sleep with men other than their husbands, in the hope of becoming pregnant.
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Oct 16, 2018
In "The Poison Squad," Deborah Blum tells the story of the early-20th-century U.S.D.A. inspector who changed the way we think about food.
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Oct 16, 2018
Marielle Heller directs a true story of literary fraud, set amid the bookstores and gay bars of early '90s Manhattan.
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Oct 16, 2018
Jenkins talks about his adaptation of James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk," and Wolitzer discusses the adaptation of her novel "The Wife."
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Oct 16, 2018
Writing into her 90s — her last book was published last month — Dr. Midgley challenged with wit and verve the primacy of science as arbiter of reality.
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Oct 16, 2018
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the relationship between science and war, what he would do with a $700 billion research budget and why he's in favor of a space force.
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Oct 16, 2018
"CoDex 1962," by the Icelandic cult writer Sjon, is a trippy, philosophical, shaggy-dog novel combining a love story, a crime mystery and a science-fiction thriller in one.
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Oct 16, 2018
The Japanese novelist's latest book, "Killing Commendatore," features a stymied artist, a haunted painting and a host of paranormal mysteries.
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Oct 16, 2018
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Oct 16, 2018
New books by Jose Antonio Vargas, José Olivarez and Julissa Arce explore what being part of mixed-status families, in which either they or their relatives were undocumented, has meant to them.
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Oct 15, 2018
A journalist's traumatic story of epilepsy and his struggle to have it treated seriously, and properly, in his college years.
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Oct 15, 2018
Professor Lobel was among the first historians to explore the economic and social elements of city life in the 19th century through the lens of eating.
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Oct 15, 2018
"Unsheltered" threads the story of a present-day family struggling in New Jersey with that of a 19th-century science teacher who had lived on the same property.
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Oct 15, 2018
The message here: A library is much more than its books.
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Oct 15, 2018
Susan Orlean's "The Library Book" is an absorbing account of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Central Library and a homage to libraries everywhere.
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Oct 14, 2018
Jill Soloway is building a gender-free empire.
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Oct 14, 2018
Jessie Greengrass discusses her first novel, about a woman remembering her mother and grandmother as she decides whether to have children herself.
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Oct 14, 2018
She read 171 books for the prestigious literary prize. "On Oct. 17, I'm going to sit down and read a book I have no obligation to read," she said.
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Oct 12, 2018
Los Angeles has long been the perfect backdrop from crime writers. This map of the city will help you find the setting for nine books, classic and new.
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Oct 12, 2018
"It wouldn't have been exciting before Trump," Michael Lewis says of "The Fifth Risk." "I think Trump's electrified all the material."
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Oct 12, 2018
Tyson's new book shows how the technologies that advanced our knowledge of the universe were designed with military advantage in mind.
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Oct 12, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Paula Giddings on Steven R. Carter's "Hansberry's Drama.
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Oct 12, 2018
New novels about road trips, summer jobs and first love as well as darker realities: mental illness, body issues, the threat of gun violence.
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Oct 12, 2018
In "If You Love Me," Maureen Cavanagh chronicles her family's journey through her daughter Katie's heroin addiction.
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Oct 12, 2018
Alethea Black's memoir, "You've Been So Lucky Already," traces her journey from grief to religious faith.
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Oct 12, 2018
From Henry James's " The Turn of the Screw" to Stephen King's "The Shining," the haunted house is a staple of horror novels.
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Oct 12, 2018
Ms. Condé is the author of "I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem," "Segu," "Windward Heights" and other emotionally complex novels that reach across history and cultures.
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Oct 12, 2018
Fiction from and about our northern neighbors revealing parents and children in turmoil.
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Oct 12, 2018
Luce D'Eramo's incredible tale of bravery or insanity, described in "Deviation," has been translated into English for the first time.
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Oct 12, 2018
In her column, Hillary Chute explores work from Riad Sattouf, Don Brown, Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham.
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Oct 12, 2018
In "Patient X," David Peace explores the conflicted career of the great Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who committed suicide when only 35.
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Oct 12, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Oct 11, 2018
Stephen Elliott has filed a lawsuit against the people behind a crowdsourced document that listed men said to be guilty of harassment and assault.
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Oct 11, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 11, 2018
Christian Wiman's strangely powerful new book, "He Held Radical Light," argues for the inherent holiness of art.
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Oct 11, 2018
This highly original feature is technically in English, but it might as well be in liberal-arts-speak.
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Oct 11, 2018
The author, most recently, of "The Library Book" says visitors might be surprised to see a copy of "Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition" on her shelves: "I recommend it over the third edition."
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Oct 11, 2018
Michael Beschloss's "Presidents of War" looks at the pressures on chief executives when they make the ultimate decision to risk American lives.
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Oct 10, 2018
Lauren Groff, Rebecca Makkai and Sarah Smarsh are among the 25 shortlisted books in five categories.
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Oct 10, 2018
The Japanese author's intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, between regular life and irregular happenings.
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Oct 10, 2018
Orlean's latest, inspired by the mystery of a fire that destroyed and damaged more than a million books in Los Angeles, is also a tribute to public libraries.
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Oct 10, 2018
In "The Witch Elm," squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.
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Oct 10, 2018
Norwegian authorities refused to identify the suspects or discuss the evidence. They filed charges two days before a deadline that would have forced them to drop the case.
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Oct 10, 2018
In "The Nickel Boys," the author of the award-winning "Underground Railroad" explores the dark history of a segregated Florida reform school
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Oct 10, 2018
Ramachandra Guha's "Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948" takes Gandhi on his own terms but does not gloss over the flaws.
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Oct 09, 2018
The C.I.A. tried to quash one book, to the point of buying up all the copies. But the publisher said it would just print more. It became a best seller.
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Oct 09, 2018
A comic strip depicting children who were victims of a school shooting resonated with readers and hearkened back to the magazine's glory days as a cultural provocateur.
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Oct 09, 2018
In Sarah Perry's new novel, a wraith condemned to wander the world tempts the lonely to join her for mysterious ends.
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Oct 09, 2018
Pamela Paul and two other editors of The New York Times Book Review explain how they use the section's long tradition as a "political Switzerland" to try to bring conversations to the center.
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Oct 09, 2018
She was a woman on a mission. An inane, pathetic mission, but a mission nonetheless: Get enough points to qualify for the ‘A' List.
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Oct 09, 2018
"Your Duck Is My Duck" offers six new stories filled with Eisenberg's trademark style, blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong.
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Oct 08, 2018
Our critic calls John Wray's new novel, which is loosely based on the story of the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, "a significant literary performance."
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Oct 08, 2018
Most of us own books we've read and books we haven't. Kevin Mims considers the importance of owning books we'll never get around to finishing.
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Oct 08, 2018
A new book explores the nightcap's many possibilities and asserts only a single rule: Keep it to one drink.
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Oct 08, 2018
Pamela Paul and two other editors of The New York Times Book Review explain how they use the section's long tradition as a "political Switzerland" to try to bring conversations to the center.
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Oct 08, 2018
"The Fifth Risk" examines the crucial, often life-or-death, work done by officials in three government agencies.
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Oct 08, 2018
"Every Day Is Extra" is the memoir of an eyewitness to some of the most dramatic changes in American political history.
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Oct 08, 2018
A growing canon of female-centered science fiction looks at questions of gender inequality, misogyny and institutionalized sexism.
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Oct 08, 2018
Time realists look at a task and break down the math of it. Julie Morgenstern will teach you how.
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Oct 07, 2018
In French's new novel, a young man struggles to make sense of his own memory and identity after barely surviving an attack.
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Oct 05, 2018
Mr. Radunsky harnessed a multitude of artistic styles for different narrative effects in books about subjects including Albert Einstein and a rapping dog.
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