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Jul 31, 2026
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and '60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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Jul 31, 2026
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.
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Jul 31, 2026
Douglas Stuart's latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
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Jul 31, 2026
Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer's Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.
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Jul 31, 2026
In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Patrick Radden Keefe's dazzling investigation into the death of a British teenager.
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Jul 31, 2026
Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.
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Jul 31, 2026
How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder's less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.
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Jul 31, 2026
In "The Savage Landscape," the nature writer Cal Flyn argues that wilderness is just one more man-made invention.
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Jul 30, 2026
"We live in the world we inherited from them," the author Dylan Gottlieb says.
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Jul 30, 2026
Our columnist on "The Amateur," by Chris Bohjalian, and two other books.
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Jul 30, 2026
As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin's prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Jul 30, 2026
After finishing his latest book, Karan Mahajan couldn't decide which opening passage was best. Please vote below for the one you prefer.
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Jul 30, 2026
The best-selling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray recommend gripping books that illuminate hidden chapters of the city's past.
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Jul 29, 2026
Beth Brower has been self-publishing for a decade. But her series drawn from the cheeky "journals" of a young woman in Victorian England has been a breakout.
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Jul 28, 2026
Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.
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Jul 28, 2026
Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.
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Jul 28, 2026
"All That's Unseen," by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.
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Jul 28, 2026
A new book by the historian Micki McElya considers how the politics of beauty both shaped and divided the women's movement.
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Jul 27, 2026
In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.
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Jul 27, 2026
Colson Whitehead's Harlem trilogy turns away from the pessimism of his recent novels to offer a more hopeful vision for Black history.
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Jul 27, 2026
A travel journal can be a great way to evoke specific details and memories from a trip. Here are some tips on how to lower the barrier to entry and to stay organized.
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Jul 26, 2026
Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach's novel comes out in paperback this week. It's a book she didn't want to write.
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Jul 26, 2026
The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.
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Jul 26, 2026
Sarai Walker's "Furious Violet" is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.
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Jul 25, 2026
An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.
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Jul 25, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Jul 25, 2026
In "The Renoir Girls," the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d'Anvers family.
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Jul 24, 2026
There's nothing like hearing a famous person's life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.
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Jul 24, 2026
A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.
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Jul 24, 2026
A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.
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Jul 24, 2026
It's time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can't stop thinking about.
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Jul 24, 2026
The picture books "Bored" and "Endless Afternoons" are odes to the joy of having nothing to do.
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Jul 23, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 23, 2026
Pliny's "Natural History" is meant for "skimming and skipping," she says. Her own new (one-volume) road-trip novel is "Beginning Middle End."
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Jul 23, 2026
There's nothing like hearing a famous person's life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.
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Jul 22, 2026
Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, who met when their fathers were in Congress, make a case for bipartisanship in a picture book about dogs working together.
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Jul 22, 2026
The message in "The Surrendered Wife," the best-selling book by Laura Doyle, was provocative. Many women credit it with saving their marriages.
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Jul 22, 2026
In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a "shadow tradition" of anti-egalitarians who fought against America's founding ideals.
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Jul 22, 2026
The best-selling author Laura Doyle believes women can be too controlling. Many women — of all types — credit her with saving their marriages.
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Jul 22, 2026
Matthew Quick's memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.
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Jul 22, 2026
Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.
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Jul 21, 2026
Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, "Unsayable" feels destined for the graduation gift bag.
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Jul 21, 2026
In "The Frenchmen," Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.
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Jul 21, 2026
For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer's epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.
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Jul 21, 2026
In "The Mortons," a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.
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Jul 21, 2026
A new compendium of Roberta Gregory's comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.
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Jul 20, 2026
The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.
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Jul 20, 2026
The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.
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Jul 20, 2026
The market for Homer's epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.
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Jul 20, 2026
In "The Lost Founder," the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.
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Jul 19, 2026
Caitlin Mullen drew on eerie expeditions to the Pine Barrens for her new mystery novel, "Heather."
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Jul 18, 2026
A psychologist, he wrote during the AIDS crisis about survivor's guilt and depression in his H.I.V.-negative patients.
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Jul 18, 2026
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic poem has monster battles, a sorceress and dozens of thirsty suitors. Here's a primer.
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Jul 18, 2026
In Claire Vaye Watkins's novel "Yellow Pine," a single woman having an existential crisis decides now is the time to have a child.
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Jul 17, 2026
Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.
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Jul 17, 2026
Gary Stewart spent a few years on top, but was largely forgotten after his tragic death in 2003. Now a new generation is rediscovering the onetime "king of honky-tonk."
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Jul 17, 2026
The Netflix series and its feature-length finale are based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman. Here's a reminder of the events of the characters and where their stories left of.
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Jul 17, 2026
A new collection of the famous graphic designer Seymour Chwast's work for children "unearths a cache of lost treasures."
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Jul 17, 2026
Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.
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Jul 16, 2026
Our columnist on three of the year's most anticipated books.
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Jul 16, 2026
For comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.
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Jul 16, 2026
Our columnist on three of the year's most anticipated books.
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Jul 16, 2026
Jem Calder's novel, "I Want You to Be Happy," follows the flailing situationship between two aspiring writers with a 12-year age gap.
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Jul 16, 2026
In "Journey to Nowhere," Shiva Naipaul reports on the aftermath of a cult's disastrous turn away from idealism.
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Jul 15, 2026
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer's protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
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Jul 15, 2026
A new book by the journalist Lauren Collins chronicles the ongoing effects of the violent takeover of Wilmington, N.C., on those living in its aftermath.
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Jul 15, 2026
In "Air," by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht, a decorator's unusual commission leads abruptly into another universe.
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Jul 14, 2026
"Cloudthief," by Nathaniel Rich, follows a dispirited writer into a scheme to get rich and find romance along the way.
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Jul 14, 2026
Julie Buntin's novel "Famous Men" complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent.
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Jul 14, 2026
Sure, "Catcher in the Rye" has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels.
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Jul 14, 2026
A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder's campaign to promote conservative Christian values.
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Jul 13, 2026
Her best-known work, "Women Without Men," was longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year.
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Jul 13, 2026
Her first collection of short fiction, "It Will Come Back to You," is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.
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Jul 13, 2026
The best-selling author Rachel Lynn Solomon recommends forbidden love stories full of fiery desire, shifting power dynamics and so-wrong-it's-right drama.
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Jul 13, 2026
From assisted living to elder activism and her own experience as a caregiver, Lucy Schiller investigates aging's myriad challenges in her first book.
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Jul 13, 2026
In "Catch the Devil," Pamela Colloff vividly tells the true story of the con man who traded on other prisoners' "confessions" for clemency.
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Jul 12, 2026
Interested in these classic novels, but not sure where to start? Let our expert guide you.
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Jul 12, 2026
In "Every Inch a Lady," Audrey Smaltz shares her incredible story — if not her inimitable voice.
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Jul 11, 2026
Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?
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Jul 11, 2026
Han Ong's barbed, irreverent portrait of identity, class envy and flimflam deception in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan still resonates.
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Jul 10, 2026
Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, "The Grimkes," which is no longer listed on its publisher's website.
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Jul 10, 2026
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article "continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others."
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Jul 10, 2026
The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was "fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville," a colleague said.
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Jul 10, 2026
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu was leading a literary group that has been divided by its response to the war in Gaza.
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Jul 10, 2026
First, a primer from the author of "Circe," Madeline Miller. Then, A.O. Scott on all the genres inside the 3,000-year-old poem.
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Jul 10, 2026
A group of artists gathered at a hotel on the Côte d'Azur in 1937. A new book by Anna Thomasson captures the art and escapades the holiday inspired.
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Jul 10, 2026
Ten recommendations for fans of Mary Pope Osborne's time-travel chapter book series.
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Jul 10, 2026
One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day.
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Jul 09, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times
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Jul 09, 2026
The world's most famous epic has something for every reader.
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Jul 09, 2026
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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Jul 09, 2026
While the Y.A. graphic novel phenomenon wraps up with a sixth volume and a Netflix movie, Alice Oseman mostly reads fiction about adults now.
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Jul 09, 2026
The world's most famous epic has something for every reader.
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Jul 09, 2026
Homer's "Odyssey" has been translated into English countless times, with versions ranging from contemporary and accessible to highly poetic. A.O. Scott, critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three translations and explains which one might be right for you.
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Jul 09, 2026
The best-selling author Kerri Maher recommends books that transport readers to the decade of space travel, counterculture and tumultuous societal change.
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Jul 08, 2026
A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices. The creators know criticism is coming.
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Jul 08, 2026
A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices.The creators know criticism is coming.
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Jul 08, 2026
William T. Vollmann's fascinating, wildly ambitious text interweaves a family saga with a history of the American war machine since Vietnam.
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Jul 07, 2026
Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.
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Jul 07, 2026
A new book by the historian Mason B. Williams chronicles the dubious effects of school, housing and police reforms by local politicians on the right.
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