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Aug 14, 2018
Sink your teeth into three tasty new food memoirs — Rick Bragg's "The Best Cook in the World," Edward Lee's "Buttermilk Graffiti" and Lidia Bastianich's "My American Dream."
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Aug 14, 2018
Olga Tokarczuk's novel, the winner of this year's International Man Booker Prize, is full of bizarre and harrowing stories that blend fiction and fact.
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Aug 14, 2018
The festival also announced a period drama with Chris Pine as its opening night film.
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Aug 14, 2018
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Aug 14, 2018
C.J. Chivers's "The Fighters" provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East
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Aug 14, 2018
Sloane Crosley makes the case for a nontraditional, at-home alternative to the Dewey Decimal System.
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Aug 14, 2018
From Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield to Yiyun Li and Heidi Julavits, Do Diarists Ever Truly Reveal Themselves?
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Aug 13, 2018
Charles S. Cockell's "The Equations of Life" argues that physics constrains evolution so that life is not endlessly variable, but actually quite predictable.
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Aug 13, 2018
In "Playing Changes," Nate Chinen argues that we're living in a brilliant new phase of jazz, and offers an annotated guide to his favorite performers.
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Aug 13, 2018
She helped shape new ways of thinking about Jewish identity, including challenging the Zionist notion that Israel must be honored as the homeland.
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Aug 13, 2018
"A Bite-Sized History of France" covers wines, cheeses and the invention of canned food preservation.
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Aug 13, 2018
David Quammen has written a sprawling history of evolutionary genetics, "The Tangled Tree," that complicates familiar notions of how species evolved.
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Aug 12, 2018
Sales are falling and critics say the company lacks a direction, sometimes seeming to give priority to sales of gifts and tchotchkes over books.
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Aug 12, 2018
In "I Can't Date Jesus," Michael Arceneaux writes with humor about his Catholic childhood in Houston and his struggles coming to terms with his sexuality.
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Aug 12, 2018
Naipaul, who died at 85 on Saturday, was a self-styled heir to Joseph Conrad, and a legitimate one.
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Aug 11, 2018
Mr. Naipaul, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, wrote about the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean, where he was born.
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Aug 11, 2018
Plus, another that looks at the state of the economy and a satire that offers a wacky solution.
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Aug 10, 2018
"My joy exists with pain," Ms. Silver wrote. Her poems moved in a new direction after she received a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2004.
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Aug 10, 2018
Our map of crime novels and detective fiction offers far-flung suggestions for your summer reading.
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Aug 10, 2018
"Everything's so outrageous now in the public sphere," Ms. Millet says. "You can't really be more absurd or more fictional than real life is right now."
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Aug 10, 2018
In August, the best-seller lists here don't change much. So we decided to look elsewhere — Germany, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands.
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Aug 10, 2018
The well regarded science writer took up poker while researching a book. Now she's on the professional circuit.
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Aug 10, 2018
In "My Family Divided," the "Orange Is the New Black" star tells the story of coming home at age 14 to find her parents gone, taken by immigration authorities.
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Aug 10, 2018
An author and publisher with an eclectic bent, she was a founder of Academy Chicago, which sold feminist, mystery, literary and children's books.
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Aug 10, 2018
Elizabeth Partridge's "Boots on the Ground" includes some disturbing images and facts. But today's activist teenagers can handle a fuller account of American conduct during the war.
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Aug 10, 2018
A room of one's own? The cartoonist Grant Snider thinks a writer needs a lot more than that.
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Aug 10, 2018
The daughter of Persian immigrants, Nur Jahan became the favorite wife and the co-ruler of Emperor Jahangir. Ruby Lal's "Empress" tells her story.
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Aug 10, 2018
Nico Walker's Autobiographical novel "Cherry" traces his descent into addiction and crime. It's being called the first great novel of the opioid crisis.
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Aug 10, 2018
Nico Walker's Autobiographical novel "Cherry" traces his descent into addiction and crime. It's being called the first great novel of the opioid crisis.
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Aug 10, 2018
Roger Scruton's "Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition" is intended not only for the author's political allies but for liberals too.
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Aug 10, 2018
Glynnis MacNicol's smart, pithy memoir, "No One Tells You This," celebrates women who buck cultural norms.
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Aug 10, 2018
Adam Tooze's "Crashed" examines "how a decade of financial crises changed the world."
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Aug 10, 2018
England and Russia figure in two recent novels, while in the New World, historical fiction revisits the 19th-century Caribbean and the American West.
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Aug 10, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Aug 10, 2018
In "Playthings," Alex Pheby tells the story of Daniel Paul Schreber, a German judge who described his own struggles with mental illness.
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Aug 10, 2018
As Jane O'Connor, the author of the Fancy Nancy books, ends her series, she reflects on the intimate connections she's fostered with young readers.
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Aug 10, 2018
The young Russian-American protagonist of Keith Gessen's new novel returns to the country of his birth and discovers both misery and magic.
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Aug 10, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Aug 09, 2018
She and her husband founded Academy Chicago, which sold feminist, mystery, literary and children's books and jousted in court with John Cheever's family.
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Aug 09, 2018
She and her husband founded Academy Chicago, which sold feminist, mystery, literary and children's books and jousted in court with John Cheever's family.
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Aug 09, 2018
It is not her only novel to be translated into English, but it is the first one to establish her reputation beyond her native Poland.
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Aug 09, 2018
The characters in Lydia Millet's new linked collection, "Fight No More," yearn to understand the fractures in their lives.
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Aug 09, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 09, 2018
New books featuring prominent sites, proposed walks and maps cover subjects like rock ‘n' roll, architecture, the history of Harlem and pop culture.
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Aug 09, 2018
Back in 1911, The Times discovered a trove of literary criticism inside one of the state's most notorious prisons — but couldn't figure out who the author was. 107 years later, we've solved the mystery.
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Aug 09, 2018
In "Famous Father Girl," Jamie Bernstein is a warm, wry observer, peeking from the wings as her father glories, sifting through the jumbo pill box when he falls apart.
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Aug 09, 2018
The biographer and journalist, whose latest book is "The Husband Hunters," avoids thrillers: "I get all the mayhem I want in the newspapers."
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Aug 09, 2018
How a random late-night online search led to new discoveries about the poet's birth and early years.
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Aug 08, 2018
Back in 1911, The Times discovered a trove of literary criticism inside one of the state's most notorious prisons — but couldn't figure out who the author was. 107 years later, we've solved the mystery.
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Aug 08, 2018
In Darnell L. Moore's memoir, "No Ashes in the Fire," he describes a brutal childhood in Camden, N.J., and the struggle to fully accept his identity.
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Aug 08, 2018
Adam Tooze shows how the financial crisis radiated outward, shaping not only the new economic order but the ensuing political free-for-all.
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Aug 08, 2018
Casey Legler, a former Olympic swimmer, recounts her unlikely rise and fall in a new memoir, "Godspeed." And that's only half the story.
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Aug 08, 2018
In "Hits & Misses," Simon Rich dissects his generation's culture with humor and empathy. A review by Nate Dern.
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Aug 07, 2018
In "The Tangled Tree," Quammen tells the story of a groundbreaking idea in biology, and of the scientists who discovered and explained it.
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Aug 07, 2018
After apprenticing in a Gascon village, Camas Davis returned home with an appreciation of "life, death and dinner." "Killing It" tells her story.
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Aug 07, 2018
In Olen Steinhauer's "The Middleman," a revolutionary anticapitalist movement seeks to unite the disaffected of America's red and blue states.
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Aug 07, 2018
David D. Kirkpatrick's "Into the Hands of the Soldiers" describes the heady days when democracy seemed a possibility in Egypt.
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Aug 06, 2018
Randi Hutter Epstein's "Aroused" looks at the history of hormone research and the many missteps along the way.
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Aug 06, 2018
Claire Tomalin, the acclaimed biographer of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others, recounts her own rich story in "A Life of My Own."
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Aug 06, 2018
James Freeman and Vern McKinley's "Borrowed Time" takes a close look at the government bailout of Citigroup.
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Aug 06, 2018
In his two-volume "Carbon Ideologies," the writer examines from many angles what we are doing to the earth.
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Aug 05, 2018
Jeffrey Lewis's first novel, a speculative work of fiction, has a harrowingly plain title: "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States"
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Aug 04, 2018
Stopping to smell the flowers with the last great intellectual talk-show host.
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Aug 04, 2018
Stopping to smell the flowers with the last great intellectual talk-show host.
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Aug 03, 2018
No fairy tales, thank you: Her many books dealt with death, war, slavery and other harsh realities and looked at history from contrasting viewpoints.
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Aug 03, 2018
Predictions and solutions in these books drawing on scientific research and social policy.
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Aug 03, 2018
Mr. Lee was a Catskills fixture whose reputation as an angler spread far and wide. He once took Jimmy Carter fishing and wrote a whole book on a knot.
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Aug 03, 2018
"We're all connected, we're all at risk of this," Macy says about what she has learned reporting on the opioid crisis. "It's everywhere."
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Aug 03, 2018
Alan Gratz's middle-grade novels — like the best-selling ‘Refugee' — often deal with war, asylum seekers and Jewish history.
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Aug 03, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist."
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Aug 03, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Aug 03, 2018
Edward Sorel illustrates the great turn-of-the-century author's fumbling foray into the theater.
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Aug 03, 2018
In fantasies by K. Sello Duiker and Jaleigh Johnson, children use magic to navigate the streets of a South African township and a hostile world called Tallhaven.
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Aug 03, 2018
Three books relate the individual accounts of people caught up in events larger than themselves.
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Aug 03, 2018
Instructions to help you find and subscribe to the series.
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Aug 03, 2018
Paul French's "City of Devils" is a narrative fiction of the "tawdry city" Shanghai before World War II.
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Aug 03, 2018
Matthew Kneale's "Rome: A History in Seven Sackings" narrates the city's past through the marauders who have devastated it.
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Aug 03, 2018
Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother and wrote a book about it. Now he's on trial for murder, and she's in hiding.
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Aug 03, 2018
In "The Mere Wife," by Maria Dahvana Headley, the epic poem is reimagined as an imaginative tale of class conflict.
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Aug 03, 2018
For the 200th anniversary of "Frankenstein," the poet Fiona Sampson has written a new biography of its author: "In Search of Mary Shelley."
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Aug 03, 2018
This week's mysteries move from a New Hampshire boarding school to a London rowhouse, with stops in New York City and a ramshackle shed in Oakland.
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Aug 03, 2018
In his new novel, "Metamorphica" — the title is a nod to Ovid's epic poem — Zachary Mason reworks and respins ancient Greco-Roman myths.
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Aug 03, 2018
In her brilliant new novel, "Spinning Silver," Naomi Novik riffs on a number of fairy tales, including the straw-into-gold classic.
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Aug 02, 2018
"A Girl Stands at the Door," by the Rutgers historian Rachel Devlin, shows how the work of desegregation was done disproportionately by a young population that felt called to action.
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Aug 02, 2018
As a woman of the 1950s, she said, she felt "presumptuous" about wanting a writing career, but overcame her qualms to carve out a successful one.
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Aug 02, 2018
Chibundu Onuzo's novel "Welcome to Lagos" sets its runaway characters adrift in the swirl of metropolitan life, where it may be impossible to hide.
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Aug 02, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 02, 2018
In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote five short stories about World War II, including "A Room on the Garden Side," saying they could be published after he died. Three remain.
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Aug 02, 2018
"Kissinger the Negotiator," by James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin, presents diplomacy as the art of influencing friends and adversaries.
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Aug 02, 2018
Sophie Hannah, whose Hercule Poirot novel "The Mystery of Three Quarters" will be published this month, is addicted to self-help: "Write a book and call it something like ‘The Five Secrets of Badass Kickassery' and I will buy it immediately."
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Aug 01, 2018
His satires were not well received by the Soviet authorities, and in 1980 he thought it best to live in the West until things thawed out.
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Aug 01, 2018
Lesley Nneka Arimah's debut short story collection is our August pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read This."
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Aug 01, 2018
Things are worse than ever, Roy Scranton insists in "We're Doomed. Now What?" They always have been, Eugene Thacker says in "Infinite Resignation."
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Aug 01, 2018
"A Girl Stands at the Door," by the Rutgers historian Rachel Devlin, shows how the work of desegregation was done disproportionately by young black women.
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Aug 01, 2018
A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman's memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.
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Aug 01, 2018
After a white poet's use of African-American vernacular was criticized for being offensive, the magazine's poetry editors apologized.
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Aug 01, 2018
Things are worse than ever, Roy Scranton insists in "We're Doomed. Now What?" They always have been, Eugene Thacker says in "Infinite Resignation."
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Aug 01, 2018
In her new novel, "Clock Dance," a staid retiree plunges into the off-kilter lives of a single mother and her daughter.
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Aug 01, 2018
Jeff Smith, the creator of Bone, the graphic novel series, is going after younger readers.
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Aug 01, 2018
Jeff Smith, the creator of Bone, the graphic novel series, is going after younger readers.
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