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Sep 16, 2025
The drama, which has had two runs in Britain, won London's Olivier Award for best new play earlier this year.
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Sep 16, 2025
In a frank memoir, Drew Nieporent looks back at a half-century career that's produced signature New York restaurants like Montrachet and Tribeca Grill.
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Sep 16, 2025
In her sweeping second novel, "The Wilderness," Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace.
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Sep 16, 2025
The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses.
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Sep 16, 2025
With echoes of "Never Let Me Go" and "The Goldfinch," Catherine Chidgey's devastating new novel watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shape.
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Sep 15, 2025
An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years.
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Sep 15, 2025
In "Will There Ever Be Another You," Patricia Lockwood recounts the pandemic's devastating effects on her life.
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Sep 15, 2025
The "mystical capital of Europe" serves as the backdrop for the author's latest novel, "The Secret of Secrets." Here are five spots that fire his imagination.
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Sep 15, 2025
In "Born Equal," Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.
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Sep 15, 2025
As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.
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Sep 14, 2025
Robert Munsch wrote "The Paper Bag Princess," "Love You Forever" and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
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Sep 14, 2025
In a new book, two longtime fashion editors — along with Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric — open up about times they got canned.
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Sep 14, 2025
Robert Munsch wrote "The Paper Bag Princess," "Love You Forever" and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
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Sep 14, 2025
Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.
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Sep 14, 2025
The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.
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Sep 14, 2025
In "We the People," the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
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Sep 13, 2025
The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn't. But he doesn't let it get him down.
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Sep 13, 2025
In Mason Coile's new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.
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Sep 13, 2025
The author "isn't shy about his opinions," as one director put it. But he gives filmmakers a wide berth and they have to decide what to put onscreen.
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Sep 13, 2025
In "Rocket Dreams," Christian Davenport revels in the struggle between the billionaire moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to leave the Earth behind.
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Sep 12, 2025
"Fit for Life," which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.
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Sep 12, 2025
It's not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
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Sep 12, 2025
The season brings histories by Jill Lepore, David McCullough and Joseph J. Ellis, memoirs by Margaret Atwood and Susan Orlean, and more.
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Sep 12, 2025
The novelist's sheet music collection reveals new perspectives on her life and work.
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Sep 12, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 12, 2025
It's not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
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Sep 12, 2025
In "Night Watch," Kevin Young riffs on Dante's "Inferno" and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation's past.
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Sep 12, 2025
A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening.
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Sep 12, 2025
Fifty years after "'Salem's Lot," Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.
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Sep 12, 2025
Mimi Pond's new graphic novel spins a cinematic romp out of the British aristocrats' lives and loves: "You can't make this stuff up."
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Sep 12, 2025
In Nicholas Day's "A World Without Summer," Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for "Frankenstein."
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Sep 12, 2025
Alexandra Alter, who covers publishing industry news and writes Books features for The Times, is always on the hunt for the next Harry Potter.
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Sep 11, 2025
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
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Sep 11, 2025
With "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Sep 11, 2025
Here are some of our staff's favorites, for ages 0 to 2.
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Sep 11, 2025
She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish "Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift."
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Sep 10, 2025
In "Boy From the North Country," a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.
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Sep 10, 2025
In "The Blood in Winter," Jonathan Healey explores the many causes of the English Civil War.
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Sep 10, 2025
"Fresh Sets," by Tembe Denton-Hurst, surveys some of the coolest contemporary designs from around the world.
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Sep 10, 2025
Our columnist on three notable recent novels.
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Sep 10, 2025
In her memoir, the whistle-blower explores the motives behind the leak that sent her to prison.
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Sep 10, 2025
Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.
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Sep 10, 2025
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
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Sep 09, 2025
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
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Sep 09, 2025
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of "Eat, Pray, Love," delves into her struggle with an obsessive relationship in a new memoir.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Heritage Foundation's clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
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Sep 09, 2025
"The Secret of Secrets" follows Robert Langdon as he tries to rescue his lover, a neuroscientist who is targeted by a mysterious organization after a breakthrough.
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Sep 08, 2025
In a studiously bland new book, "Listening to the Law," the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court's recent controversies.
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Sep 08, 2025
In "All the Way to the River," the best-selling writer dilutes a powerful story of love, addiction and loss with saccharine self-indulgence.
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Sep 08, 2025
The popular science writer, whose new book is "Replaceable You," has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more.
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Sep 07, 2025
A longtime resident, he devoted his career to Historic Richmond Town and Sailors' Snug Harbor, two of the borough's most important cultural institutions.
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Sep 07, 2025
Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Sep 07, 2025
In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for "Two and a Half Men," "Platoon" and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.
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Sep 07, 2025
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three great books that came out this summer.
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Sep 07, 2025
Now 74 and "close to handing in my dinner pail," the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
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Sep 07, 2025
The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in "Schattenfroh," stretching the limits of fiction in the process.
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Sep 07, 2025
Keira D'Amato retired from running at 24, but a decade later she was back and setting marathon records. A new memoir details her journey, which is still unfolding.
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Sep 07, 2025
Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece.
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Sep 06, 2025
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
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Sep 06, 2025
Andrew Davies has spent more than four decades spinning novels from "Pride and Prejudice" to "House of Cards" into small-screen gold.
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Sep 06, 2025
In his new novel, John Boyne challenges readers to examine the often ignored shadow of abuse.
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Sep 06, 2025
In Lee Lai's "Cannon," a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can't stand it any longer.
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Sep 05, 2025
Watch for new books by Dan Brown, Thomas Pynchon, Mona Awad and more.
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Sep 05, 2025
In "Ghosted," Alice Vernon explores the human urge to pierce the veil — and the many mediums, charlatans and true believers who made it an enduring industry.
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Sep 05, 2025
A new memoir finds the self-help icon locked in a destructive romantic relationship with her best friend, who relapsed while fighting terminal cancer.
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Sep 05, 2025
"The Secret of Secrets," the sixth installment in Dan Brown's franchise about the symbologist Robert Langdon, brings the bookish hero back to a European capital to unravel a shocking conspiracy.
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Sep 05, 2025
Echoing backward to the sixth century and forward to "The Lion King," the play shows young people that stories are resilient against time and chaos.
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Sep 04, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 04, 2025
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
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Sep 04, 2025
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
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Sep 04, 2025
The author of the Slough House novels — the latest one is "Clown Town" — has an eclectic stack on his nightstand.
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Sep 04, 2025
Born dirt poor, Victoria Woodhull rose to heights of wealth and fame in the Gilded Age, reinventing herself along the way. A sprightly new biography recounts her unlikely story.
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Sep 04, 2025
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
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Sep 04, 2025
Check out books by Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Joe Hill, and revisit familiar worlds with Dan Brown, Mick Herron and Bolu Babalola.
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Sep 04, 2025
Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.
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Sep 04, 2025
Kiran Desai has returned with her most ambitious novel yet: "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny," a sprawling romance that was all-consuming to complete.
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Sep 04, 2025
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
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Sep 03, 2025
Inspired by his parents' travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father's safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters.
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Sep 03, 2025
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
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Sep 03, 2025
"Sympathy Tower Tokyo," which was a best seller in Japan, is a social novel for the age of A.I.
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Sep 03, 2025
The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century's most famous agitators.
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Sep 03, 2025
In "The Arrogant Ape," the primatologist Christine Webb takes a hard look at our human superiority complex, and is not impressed.
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Sep 03, 2025
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.'
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Sep 02, 2025
The prizewinning novelist's unsparing memoir, "Mother Mary Comes to Me," captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
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Sep 02, 2025
Amie Barrodale's dazzlingly weird novel, "Trip," is about a mother and son adrift — in the afterlife and in the South Atlantic, respectively.
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Sep 02, 2025
In the enchanting memoir "The Season" Helen Garner writes about her grandson's Australian Rules football team — and so much more.
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Sep 02, 2025
The ambitious but intimate sweep of Patrick Ryan's new novel, "Buckeye," recalls classic storytelling of another era.
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Sep 02, 2025
In the essay collection "Our Fragile Freedoms," Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
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Sep 01, 2025
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
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Sep 01, 2025
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over "Hamilton" and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
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Sep 01, 2025
In "The Call of the Honeyguide," Rob Dunn explores how the natural and human worlds have helped each other through history — and can again.
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Aug 31, 2025
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
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Aug 31, 2025
"This Is My Body," by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month's notable horror releases.
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Aug 30, 2025
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be "at her own wake," a colleague said.
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Aug 30, 2025
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be "at her own wake," a colleague said.
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Aug 30, 2025
The acclaimed writer has a new memoir, and a warning.
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Aug 30, 2025
The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.
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Aug 30, 2025
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and director Chris Columbus on their new adaptation, first-day jitters and their shared love of "Home Alone."
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Aug 30, 2025
In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal.
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Aug 30, 2025
In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman's fragmented consciousness.
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