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Sep 11, 2026
A book influencer shares her most anticipated fall reads. Plus, things to do this weekend that don't involve curling up with a book.
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Sep 11, 2026
In "Dressing the Queen" the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the image.
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Sep 11, 2026
His moody portrait became the album cover for "Kind of Blue." Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.
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Sep 11, 2026
If you're tempted to ghost someone, try a "connected goodbye" instead.
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Sep 11, 2026
A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.
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Sep 10, 2026
Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.
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Sep 10, 2026
"I haven't finished it yet," she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, "Otherwhere," collects 50 years of her poetry.
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Sep 10, 2026
The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky's "Mock Heart" show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.
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Sep 10, 2026
The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.
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Sep 09, 2026
In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.
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Sep 09, 2026
Her new album, "Good Grief," mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel "The Interestings" is about finding a different kind of fulfillment in a creative life than you'd once imagined, which Bareilles knows something about.
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Sep 09, 2026
Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.
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Sep 08, 2026
MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.
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Sep 08, 2026
In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.
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Sep 08, 2026
In "Money to Burn," William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.
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Sep 08, 2026
The author describes the main character of her new novel, "Exit Party," to a forensic sketch artist.
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Sep 08, 2026
The experiences Ms. Kuang had during a summer spent studying Mandarin in the Taiwanese capital helped her shape her newest novel, "Taipei Story."
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Sep 08, 2026
Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.
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Sep 08, 2026
New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.
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Sep 07, 2026
The author behind the cult-classic movie is back with a new series about the power of female friendship — and witches.
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Sep 07, 2026
"Taipei Story," R.F. Kuang's seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.
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Sep 06, 2026
His colloquial language, emotionality and gay topics brought him widespread praise, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and other literary honors.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Living With Freddie," Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her "to be human."
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Sep 06, 2026
In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline's new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Tower Hill," the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.
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Sep 05, 2026
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology "Sisterhood Is Powerful," led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Sep 05, 2026
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "All the Presidents' Wars," the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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Sep 05, 2026
Even a very successful thriller writer fights self-doubt. His new tough-talking writing guide doubles as a memoir that explains why, and how to beat it.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "The Living Realm," an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.
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Sep 04, 2026
Barbara Kingsolver remembers the man she counted among her most important literary mentors.
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Sep 04, 2026
From horror to history to literary fiction, the Book Review editors discuss 31 titles that deserve a look.
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Sep 04, 2026
Meg Howrey's novel "Body Language" doesn't skimp on the kind of absurd humor that thrives in a crucible.
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Sep 04, 2026
Artemis Fowl, celebrating his 25th anniversary, is one for the ages.
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Sep 04, 2026
In "The Ghost of the Mountains," Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi proves there is no substitute for old-fashioned field study.
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Sep 03, 2026
Her 1983 book "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.
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Sep 03, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 03, 2026
Her 1983 book "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.
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Sep 03, 2026
Jonathan Franzen's novel, which put a Midwestern family under the microscope, came out a week before 9/11. Why are we still talking about it?
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Sep 03, 2026
The best-selling author Linwood Barclay recommends his favorite thrillers set in the corporate world.
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Sep 03, 2026
But first, she's publishing a children's book, "Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin,'" because "I wanted to inspire young people to fall in love with music."
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Sep 02, 2026
She was so immersed in "The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones" that she forgot to eat dinner.
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Sep 02, 2026
In "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings," Jared Diamond considers the impact leaders might have had on the course of their civilizations.
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Sep 02, 2026
"The Everest Mystery" takes on the enduring puzzle of two climbers' fates — and pays tribute to the often-overlooked Sandy Irvine.
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Sep 01, 2026
Our columnist on three of the month's best new releases.
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Sep 01, 2026
In "53 Days," the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.
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Sep 01, 2026
"American Scoundrel" traces the career of Roy Cohn, whose smash-mouth politics continue to shape our own.
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Aug 31, 2026
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Aug 31, 2026
The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man's baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.
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Aug 31, 2026
Francis Fukuyama's famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.
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Aug 30, 2026
Marlon James's story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist's banquet — and the Booker Prize winner's finest book yet.
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Aug 30, 2026
With "The Disappearers," the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
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Aug 29, 2026
Robert Harris's new novel, "Agrippa," follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.
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Aug 29, 2026
In "Under Story," a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.
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Aug 29, 2026
"The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard," John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and '70s.
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Aug 28, 2026
Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film.
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Aug 28, 2026
A former Catholic priest, he later became an acclaimed author, writing more than two dozen works about life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.
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Aug 28, 2026
Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.
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Aug 28, 2026
In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon's latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
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Aug 28, 2026
As Shaun Tan reminds us with his stand-alone follow-up to "The Arrival," some truths are so enormous, so beautiful, they can be told only through myth.
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Aug 28, 2026
The best-selling thriller writer Tess Gerritsen likes older detectives who bring a lifetime of experience to their cases.
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Aug 27, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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Aug 27, 2026
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn's protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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Aug 27, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Aug 27, 2026
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes you to her favorite bookstores in Park Slope/Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This tour offers readers a variety of genres, new books and used books.
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Aug 26, 2026
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," a butler in "Clue" or a singing King Arthur in "Spamalot."
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Aug 26, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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Aug 26, 2026
Susan Sontag gave that high praise to "A Book of Memories" (1986), a labyrinthine chronicle of life under Communism.
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Aug 26, 2026
The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast "Killer in the Code." But despite critics' skepticism, he finds the evidence "completely convincing."
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Aug 26, 2026
The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast "Killer in the Code." But despite critics' skepticism, he finds the evidence "completely convincing."
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Aug 26, 2026
The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
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Aug 26, 2026
Novels by Marlon James, Emma Cline, Hernan Diaz and John Green; nonfiction by Emily Wilson and Robert Kolker; and more.
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Aug 26, 2026
A new book of essays by the celebrated classicist captures her excitement for her subject matter and the surprising range of her references.
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Aug 26, 2026
Novels by Marlon James, Emma Cline, Hernan Diaz and John Green; nonfiction by Emily Wilson and Robert Kolker; and more.
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Aug 26, 2026
How Peter Grainger, an English mystery writer, self-published his way into prominence.
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Aug 25, 2026
An economic historian and political maverick, he was a sometimes polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.
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Aug 25, 2026
In an evocative new memoir, the journalist Wilbert L. Cooper explores the history, and paradoxes, of race and policing in Cleveland, his hometown.
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Aug 24, 2026
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.
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Aug 24, 2026
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.
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Aug 24, 2026
Our columnist on three of the month's best releases.
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Aug 24, 2026
I traveled around the country to find out if "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" still has a place in the classroom.
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Aug 24, 2026
In "The Time Tax," the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.
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Aug 24, 2026
In Jennifer Hillier's new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her seaside town.
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Aug 23, 2026
In "Up on Cove Mountain" Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.
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Aug 23, 2026
Four authors grapple with the fight over American identity, from the colonial era to the modern day.
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Aug 22, 2026
The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.
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Aug 22, 2026
In "The Great Wherever," generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.
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Aug 22, 2026
"The Anniversary," a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.
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Aug 22, 2026
Our columnist on four of the month's best releases.
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Aug 21, 2026
William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.
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Aug 21, 2026
She published two books about her famous mother but didn't fully embrace the family business until her late 50s, when she began writing "Dear Prudence" for Slate.
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Aug 21, 2026
He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.
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Aug 21, 2026
In Kurt Andersen's new novel, "The Breakup," a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.
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Aug 21, 2026
Works by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.
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Aug 21, 2026
Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, "Life of M" remains chilly and abstract.
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Aug 20, 2026
"Lots of white space on a page. Short paragraphs that move." This month Apple TV airs Season 2 of a series based on his 2016 sci-fi thriller "Dark Matter."
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Aug 19, 2026
Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.
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Aug 19, 2026
In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.
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Aug 18, 2026
In "The Book of Chuck," clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.
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Aug 18, 2026
In "Range," by the Danish writer Dorthe Nors, a misfit astrophysicist lives alone in the wilderness, struggling to connect.
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