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Oct 17, 2026
Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh's nuanced take on the Netflix show's villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.
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Oct 17, 2026
Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.
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Oct 17, 2026
In "Redemption," the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.
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Oct 17, 2026
In "Every Story Is a Love Story," a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.
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Oct 16, 2026
Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.
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Oct 16, 2026
In "Bogland," Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.
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Oct 16, 2026
Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.
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Oct 16, 2026
In Kara LaReau's "Licorice," a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.
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Oct 15, 2026
A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.
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Oct 15, 2026
For her follow-up to "Lessons in Chemistry," she's written a novel about poetry editors, one of whom is a "typeface connoisseur." On the other hand, don't get her started on clowns.
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Oct 15, 2026
The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on "Moby Dick."
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Oct 15, 2026
Min Jin Lee, the author of the new novel "American Hagwon," breaks down the phenomenon of young children living far from home that inspired one of the characters in the book.
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Oct 14, 2026
Emmanuel Carrère's latest book combines a nuanced portrait of his formidable mother with a meditation on the fraught nature of truth.
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Oct 14, 2026
A new biography argues that the artist famous for haunting canvases of solitary figures in late-night diners was deeply influenced by his times.
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Oct 14, 2026
In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.
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Oct 14, 2026
The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.
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Oct 13, 2026
Min Jin Lee, the author of the new novel "American Hagwon," breaks down the phenomenon of young children living far from home that inspired one of the characters in the book.
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Oct 13, 2026
In a 1999 book, she chronicled the spy agency's secret backing of Cold War culture projects to manipulate public opinion against Communism in Western Europe.
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Oct 13, 2026
More anime, fewer superheroes. More nostalgia, less heavy promo. The annual convention continued on its path as a fan-driven event and not an industry hype machine.
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Oct 13, 2026
Very little is clear in M. John Harrison's Booker-nominated novel "The End of Everything," except that nothing is as it seems.
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Oct 13, 2026
In Yiyun Li's new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.
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Oct 13, 2026
A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.
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Oct 13, 2026
In her latest book, "A Dead White," Wendy S. Walters considers the seemingly neutral background of daily life.
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Oct 13, 2026
Alexander Maksik's new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.
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Oct 12, 2026
Her 1982 novel "Brother of the More Famous Jack" is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.
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Oct 12, 2026
Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author's possessions is up for auction.
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Oct 12, 2026
In "The Best Kind of American," Kim Ghattas shows what an American's assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
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Oct 12, 2026
In Julie Orringer's novel "Luna, Phoenix, Queen," a husband discovers his ailing wife's secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.
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Oct 12, 2026
A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of "Ways of Seeing" continues to be read and embraced.
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Oct 11, 2026
In "The Havana Syndrome," Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados make the case that a mysterious Russian weapon has been used to target American intelligence agents.
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Oct 11, 2026
In "The Case of the Autographed Corpse," Jack El-Hai reveals how the relationship between a celebrity author and a captive healer reopened a closed case.
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Oct 11, 2026
Its author became a pop culture celebrity, and sometimes punchline, but "The Hite Report" helped make way for frank discussions about pleasure.
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Oct 10, 2026
In "Weimar Germany," Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.
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Oct 10, 2026
Silverfish, book lice and mold are a thing, especially in secondhand books. Here's how to deal with them.
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Oct 10, 2026
As Anthony Tommasini demonstrates in his new biography, the inspiring singer preferred to incite change through excellence, not banner-waving.
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Oct 10, 2026
Rachel Cusk's newest novel, "Life of M," arrived in a pile of old-fashioned gossip. Alexandra Jacobs, a New York Times book critic, reviews the author's latest novel.
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Oct 09, 2026
He was the author of more than a dozen books. "He knew every writer in New York," Robert A. Caro said.
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Oct 09, 2026
Fourteen authors in the New Directions stable have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including this year and last. How does this small press pack such a punch?
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Oct 09, 2026
Eli McCann had a surprise hit with his debut novel, "Stitched." He talks about how he came to write the book and what its success has meant.
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Oct 09, 2026
The two-time Newbery medalist Erin Entrada Kelly recommends 10 books whose mingling of fear and suspense has tantalized her.
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Oct 09, 2026
With a Netflix adaptation now streaming, Rachel Kushner, Héctor Tobar, Zoe Kazan and others share why Steinbeck's operatic family saga has stayed with them.
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Oct 09, 2026
Tom McCarthy's new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.
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Oct 09, 2026
Frank Huyler's new novel is a devastating commentary on the place of an ordinary man in the world of the ultrarich.
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Oct 08, 2026
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Oct 08, 2026
Carson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, taught at the university in the 1980s. Social media users mocked a congratulatory message from the school.
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Oct 08, 2026
On "The Book Review" podcast, Min Jin Lee, the author of "Pachinko" and "American Hagwon," explains how losing social safety nets after 1997 reshaped Korean culture into an intense educational race.
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Oct 08, 2026
Min Jin Lee, the author of "American Hagwon," joined "The Book Review" podcast to talk about how building bonds and community can be a strategy for survival.
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Oct 08, 2026
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 08, 2026
Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.
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Oct 08, 2026
The Canadian poet won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. If you've never read any of her work, here's where to start.
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Oct 08, 2026
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Oct 08, 2026
In the Minneapolis of Kawai Strong Washburn's climate dystopia, three characters form unlikely bonds to take on the nation's greediest oil behemoths.
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Oct 08, 2026
In Lydia Millet's dialogue-driven novel, a random act of violence leaves two New York women at loose ends (though not for long).
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Oct 08, 2026
The best-selling author Kat Dunn recommends some of her favorite modern retellings, of "Jane Eyre," "Frankenstein" and more.
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Oct 07, 2026
The first biography of the elusive novelist shows how little the lore ever told us about the man — or his art.
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Oct 07, 2026
In her new memoir, Meghan O'Gieblyn plumbs the philosophical implications of twin longings: for spiritual fulfillment and for drink.
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Oct 07, 2026
"Sleeping Beauties," by the musician David Byrne, explores artistic and scientific innovations that were overlooked before being embraced.
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Oct 07, 2026
"Other Worlds Than These" is the final volume in the Talisman trilogy, which King wrote with Peter Straub.
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Oct 07, 2026
A new adaptation dispenses with period glamour in favor of a lived-in feel and realism. The goal is to bring emotions to the fore.
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Oct 06, 2026
In six major books, John Iliffe centered his research not on kings, dictators and guerrilla chiefs but rather on ordinary African citizens. He has died at 87.
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Oct 06, 2026
Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.
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Oct 06, 2026
The novel, written over 50 years ago, has had several adaptations, not all of them good. A new series from Mike Flanagan has Stephen King's imprimatur.
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Oct 06, 2026
These spine-tingling stories cast light on creatures of the dark and reimagine superheroes with darker narratives, just in time for Halloween.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "Brink," the U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk gives a diaristic account of his work with the Biden and Trump administrations in the wake of the Hamas attack.
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Oct 06, 2026
Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth," Jeanna Smialek tells the story of a 19th-century author whose fiction brought economic theory down to earth.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "The AGI Chronicles," the tech journalist Kevin Roose looks for clues that artificial intelligence might already be smarter than humans.
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Oct 06, 2026
"London Falling" and "Dissection of a Murder" were among his recent favorite books. "War and Peace" and "A Clockwork Orange" went unfinished.
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Oct 05, 2026
The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature despite publishing only two novels.
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Oct 05, 2026
In a life of achievement and disgrace, ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal were themes that he knew intimately and that propelled his best-selling novels.
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Oct 05, 2026
A theatrical adaptation of "Perfection" by Vincenzo Latronico leans into political critique for an audience that looks a lot like the book's characters.
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Oct 05, 2026
A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.
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Oct 05, 2026
A new biography of the late novelist details his youthful escapades, messy relationships and intense commitment to his craft.
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Oct 05, 2026
In "Death of an Ordinary Man," the award-winning writer Sarah Perry pays tribute to her father-in-law.
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Oct 05, 2026
In "Partita," a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions.
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Oct 04, 2026
In "The Rush," Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who shaped the destiny of the United States.
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Oct 04, 2026
What seems like a story of a man hoping to reunite with a childhood flame is really a high-wire act about police brutality, racist conspiracies and much, much more.
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Oct 04, 2026
The most comprehensive biography of the hip-hop mogul to date is both an in-depth character study and a 30-year chronicle of crime and hubris.
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Oct 04, 2026
The artist Christopher Myers designed panels that were built in Mexico and photographed to become a new picture book.
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Oct 03, 2026
Set just after World War I, "The Eye of Goliath" details a man's descent into madness and a doctor's unorthodox treatment methods.
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Oct 03, 2026
Our columnist on James Sallis's "Backwater" and three other new novels.
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Oct 03, 2026
In Mikita Brottman's true-crime odyssey, "A Double Life," things get lurid.
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Oct 03, 2026
At 82, the famously roguish leading man has written a memoir, "One Helluva Ride," that's as candid and intimate as it is feisty.
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Oct 02, 2026
John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
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Oct 02, 2026
One of them takes the phrase "joined at the hip" to a whole new level.
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Oct 02, 2026
The writer John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
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Oct 02, 2026
The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.
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Oct 02, 2026
Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.
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Oct 01, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 01, 2026
Our columnist on new novels from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and John Grisham.
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Oct 01, 2026
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Oct 01, 2026
Sarah Hepola's new memoir picks up where "Blackout" left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.
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Oct 01, 2026
It's one of many surprises in "Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines," the comedian's new memoir, and a testimonial to the power of reading.
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Oct 01, 2026
Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.
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Sep 30, 2026
In "Artificial Intimacy," Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even our democracy.
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Sep 30, 2026
A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.
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Sep 30, 2026
In Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's novel "Heavy Cream," a teenager tries to fill the vacuum left behind by her unstable, unreachable mother.
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Sep 30, 2026
"The Bed Trick" details an extraordinary sexual deception case involving a "bamboozling plot," "two implausible stories" and a world where no one behaves reasonably.
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Sep 29, 2026
The beloved author's follow-up to "Pachinko" features a cram school that dares to promote students' well-being over academic striving.
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Sep 29, 2026
Ben Sevier, who has led the publishing house's Grand Central division since 2017, will succeed chief executive David Shelley in January.
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