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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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Sep 29, 2026
Deesha Philyaw's debut novel is a rebellion disguised as a romp.
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Sep 29, 2026
In "This Cursed Beautiful Land," the journalist Evan Gershkovich explores what he learned while imprisoned in the country his parents fled.
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Sep 29, 2026
In "The Vanishing Family," Robert Kolker paints a portrait of nine siblings under threat from a vicious form of Alzheimer's disease.
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Sep 29, 2026
The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.
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Sep 29, 2026
"The Radiance," by Ayad Akhtar, blends campus satire, autofiction and philosophical exploration into an explosive and timely brew.
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Sep 28, 2026
"Ply," by Hernan Diaz, is set in a dystopian future where the state has been dismantled and one company controls the energy supply.
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Sep 28, 2026
Novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Imbolo Mbue and Stephen Graham Jones; biographies of Larry David and Frank Capra; spooky season horror; and more.
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Sep 28, 2026
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she's become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
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Sep 28, 2026
In "Holding Lightning," the critic Emily Lordi takes on the complicated legacy and misunderstood artistry of the late singer.
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Sep 27, 2026
The actor still hasn't come to grips with the loss of David Lynch. He talks about that, his hesitation about taking a role in "Sex and the City" and his new memoir.
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Sep 27, 2026
In Rebecca Perry's "May We Feed the King," a curator falls down a rabbit hole imagining life in a palace court.
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Sep 27, 2026
Our columnist on four excellent recent novels.
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Sep 27, 2026
"Man in the Mirror," by Anand Giridharadas, is a searching investigation into the 2023 death of Jordan Neely and the trial of the man who held him in a chokehold.
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Sep 27, 2026
An engaging new book shows the master of American Gothic to be a deeply disturbed man who embraced the darkness most of us flee.
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Sep 26, 2026
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Sep 26, 2026
In "Mestra," Madeline Miller follows the daughter of the king of Thessaly on her endless, self-destructive quest to satisfy her insatiable father.
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Sep 26, 2026
"Dodge City," by Patrick deWitt, follows a young man on a road trip to Canada to avoid conscription in Vietnam.
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Sep 26, 2026
Our columnist on three books worth your time.
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Sep 26, 2026
Michael Douglas and Sylvester Stallone are among the tough (and tough-ish) guys getting personal in memoirs this fall.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
Yoon's latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
In October, the Book Review Book Club will read Cline's latest, about a man with dementia who has decided to end his life on his own terms.
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Sep 25, 2026
A new book by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz recounts how violent resistance by a group of armed Black men fueled the fight over slavery.
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Sep 25, 2026
Lois Lowry pioneered dystopian fiction for young readers. "Building 903" adds to her legacy.
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Sep 25, 2026
More than just instruction on how to use a weapon, the courses teach a way of life, the sociologist Harel Shapira argues in "Basic Pistol."
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Sep 25, 2026
The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he'd never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.
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Sep 24, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 24, 2026
In his new book, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that without feelings, true intelligence cannot exist.
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Sep 23, 2026
The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the "Invisible Man" author, who taught classes there.
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Sep 23, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.
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Sep 23, 2026
On the novel's 50th anniversary, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the story behind the story.
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Sep 23, 2026
If you've devoured all of the Queen of Crime's whodunits, here are more twisty mysteries that may satisfy your craving.
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Sep 23, 2026
A group of New York Times journalists test-drove routes that wind through shops specializing in comics, drama, fantasy and romance.
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Sep 22, 2026
If James wins for "The Disappearers" or Stuart for "John of John," it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.
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Sep 22, 2026
Doireann Ni Ghriofa's "Said the Dead" is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.
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Sep 22, 2026
In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.
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Sep 22, 2026
In "The Age of Cures," the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.
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Sep 22, 2026
"Swan Song," Charles Spencer's memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.
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Sep 22, 2026
Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana died, her brother has written a book about her life, her marriage to Prince Charles and the suffering she endured at the hands of the tabloid press.
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Sep 21, 2026
Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state's most beloved stories.
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Sep 21, 2026
His "The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook" made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Shadow Before the Flame," Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Crossing the Red Line," Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Sep 21, 2026
When she started her new novel, Julie Orringer didn't know that it would mirror the taxing medical challenges faced by her husband.
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Sep 21, 2026
The poet and lyricist Gulzar has profoundly shaped the idea of tender romance in India through his verse and songs in more than 150 musicals.
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Sep 21, 2026
These epic, star-spanning adventure stories blend interstellar action with political allegory and romantic drama. Here's where to start.
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Sep 20, 2026
"Roll the Calls," the new book by the Hollywood mogul, is an entertaining and expletive-filled read that surprisingly pulls some punches.
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Sep 20, 2026
Fights, feuds and insults are all in a day's work for Ari Emanuel, who offers an unvarnished look at his rapacious career in a new memoir.
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Sep 20, 2026
Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul, and somehow, my dog.
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Sep 20, 2026
Zibby Owens has parlayed her wealth into a multipronged media company that publishes her work. No one doubts her enthusiasm, but many question her management.
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Sep 19, 2026
"Otherwhere," a collection of new and selected poems, shows that Forché has been using verse to bear witness for half a century.
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Sep 19, 2026
The best-selling author Nina Simon recommends mystery novels where blood is thicker than murder.
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Sep 18, 2026
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded "extraordinary proof" that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Sep 18, 2026
In translating synth pop to a theatrical format in the "American Psycho" musical, Sheik matched what he did with rock in the acclaimed "Spring Awakening."
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Sep 18, 2026
In John Green's "Hollywood, Ending," two young actors navigate the highs and lows of Hollywood.
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Sep 18, 2026
Ten recommendations for fans of the mega-popular dueling-animals series.
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Sep 18, 2026
In short stories and her racy new novel, Deesha Philyaw takes on women, piety and the clergymen who make, and break, the rules.
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Sep 17, 2026
The former president of the free expression group, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in July, partly over concerns about an article outlining the group's opposition to cultural boycotts.
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Sep 17, 2026
"The Rouse," by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.
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Sep 17, 2026
In "Ausländer," Michael Moritz, the managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.
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Sep 17, 2026
In "When America Roared," Jonathan Kaufman draws together a bushel of figures who thrived in one fateful decade.
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Sep 17, 2026
But the comedian isn't naïve when he makes selections for his popular book club: "Most importantly, they're short."
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Sep 16, 2026
Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of "cuffing season," "shishito" or "glow-up."
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Sep 16, 2026
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Sep 16, 2026
In "True North," the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.
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Sep 16, 2026
"Know Your Rights" is the latest publication from the public schools' educational comics program Civics for All.
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Sep 16, 2026
In "Live Laugh Love," Kristin Kobes Du Mez examines how Christian women absorbed the idea that material abundance was evidence of divine favor.
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Sep 16, 2026
For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.
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Sep 15, 2026
Patterson has worked with a handful of celebrities on books in recent years, but his collaboration with YouTube's biggest star aims for a new audience.
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Sep 15, 2026
Psychologists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling with guilt, shame or questions of what comes next.
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Sep 15, 2026
In Sarah Anderson's satirical novel, "Fallow," a debt-laden woman becomes a professional surrogate for a corporate behemoth.
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Sep 15, 2026
"Our Noble Selves" takes place amid the 1951 Festival of Britain, when a traumatized ex-war reporter and P.O.W. goes from government cog to murder suspect.
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Sep 15, 2026
In "End Times Fascism," Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that apocalyptic ideology has taken hold over American elites.
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Sep 15, 2026
Sebastian Barry's new novel tours a post-Civil War America where cruelty is ever-present but love endures.
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Sep 15, 2026
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a recent Tony nominee for "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," returns to the director's chair for this season's revival of "Seven Guitars."
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Sep 14, 2026
"The Doll" on Netflix is based on a novel that's revered in Poland. It also has the requisite duels, corsets and palaces, as well as elaborate wigs and mustaches.
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Sep 14, 2026
Two career-spanning essay collections, from Nik Cohn and Jerry Stahl, revel in life's margins and recapture auras past.
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Sep 14, 2026
In "Exit Party," by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America's future crash into each other.
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