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Feb 27, 2026
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones's new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
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Feb 27, 2026
"A World Appears" explores what makes you you.
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Feb 27, 2026
Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more.
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Feb 27, 2026
Twelve recommendations for young fans of Mo Willems.
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Feb 27, 2026
For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people's stories. Now, in "The Golden Boy," she's finally telling one of her own.
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Feb 26, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 26, 2026
She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.
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Feb 26, 2026
A magnetic personality, she reinvented herself twice, bringing the same spirit to investigating child abuse and communing with dogs that she did to writing poetry.
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Feb 26, 2026
The bassist and photographer who logged time in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins unpacks one of the most creative and chaotic times of her life in a new memoir.
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Feb 26, 2026
In a new book, the biographer Justine Picardie romps through a century of royal wardrobes.
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Feb 25, 2026
Considered an "author's publisher" at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.
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Feb 25, 2026
From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me.
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Feb 25, 2026
"Starry and Restless," by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.
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Feb 24, 2026
Rachel Reid told fans that the disease's progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated follow-up book would be pushed back.
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Feb 24, 2026
Reid, a popular romance author, told fans that the disease's progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated sequel would be pushed back. She was diagnosed in 2023.
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Feb 24, 2026
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson's enigmatic novella
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Feb 24, 2026
The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.
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Feb 24, 2026
Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.
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Feb 24, 2026
Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.
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Feb 24, 2026
In "Red Dawn Over China," the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism's rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.
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Feb 24, 2026
"More Than Enough" traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.
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Feb 24, 2026
Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.
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Feb 24, 2026
The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.
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Feb 23, 2026
In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
In "The Mixed Marriage Project," Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father's lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.
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Feb 23, 2026
Literary and cultural denizens of the nation's capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post's scuppered Book World supplement.
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Feb 23, 2026
In his lyrical writings, he explored physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
In essays and books, he explored physical landscapes and the terrain of his own life, up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
Ian McGuire's new novel, "White River Crossing," tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.
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Feb 22, 2026
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Feb 22, 2026
The best stories in "Brawler" find the writer tackling the tectonic shifts that can suddenly crack open seemingly secure families.
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Feb 22, 2026
Our columnist on four stellar new releases.
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Feb 22, 2026
The outrageous reality TV star has written a memoir — part evolution, part exorcism. She's more than ready to tell you why.
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Feb 21, 2026
In Charleen Hurtubise's new novel, "Saoirse," a traumatic family secret propels an American teenager to Ireland in the early 1990s.
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Feb 21, 2026
His public radio show, "Bookworm," was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
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Feb 21, 2026
With "The Lost Boys" on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in "Dracula" in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sunk their teeth into pop culture.
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Feb 20, 2026
Ahead of this year's Academy Awards, the director appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about his latest film.
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Feb 20, 2026
His public radio show, "Bookworm," was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
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Feb 20, 2026
"The Optimists," by Brian Platzer, is an account of an extraordinary character, as remembered by her middle-school instructor.
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Feb 20, 2026
Judith Chernaik's idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.
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Feb 20, 2026
Our romance columnist says, "With romcoms, you need to go big or go home." These novels do just that.
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Feb 20, 2026
Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee's "Because of a Shoe" and Beatrice Alemagna's "Her Muddy Majesty of Muck" address children's anger with compassion.
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Feb 19, 2026
A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Feb 19, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 19, 2026
James Salter's "Light Years" had a big influence on "So Old, So Young," his new book about college friends drifting in and out of one another's lives.
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Feb 19, 2026
In Tayari Jones's new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they've always yearned for.
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Feb 19, 2026
In "Kin," the follow-up to the best-selling "An American Marriage," she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
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Feb 19, 2026
In "Kin," the follow-up to the best-selling "An American Marriage," she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
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Feb 19, 2026
The best-selling author Marie Lu recommends thrilling reads that ground enchanting adventures in recognizable settings.
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Feb 18, 2026
She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.
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Feb 18, 2026
In "Playing for Time," she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
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Feb 18, 2026
Three new books apply an economist's lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.
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Feb 17, 2026
In "Playing for Time," she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
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Feb 17, 2026
She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.
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Feb 17, 2026
The milestones of an undergrad friend group give shape and color to Grant Ginder's latest novel, "So Old, So Young."
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Feb 17, 2026
How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.
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Feb 17, 2026
In "Why I Am Not an Atheist," Christopher Beha makes the case for faith.
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Feb 17, 2026
Mohammed Hanif's "Rebel English Academy" follows three characters in the politically fraught Pakistan of the late 1970s.
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Feb 16, 2026
A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate's work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results.
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Feb 16, 2026
In "Leaving Home," the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color.
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Feb 15, 2026
With matter-of-fact precision, "A Hymn to Life" powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband's sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed.
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Feb 15, 2026
A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky's "Evil Genius."
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Feb 14, 2026
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
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Feb 14, 2026
A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular success.
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Feb 13, 2026
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the author appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about her books and the Netflix phenomenon they sparked.
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Feb 13, 2026
The character's racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film's casting is "whitewashing." But what does the original novel really say?
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Feb 13, 2026
Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic give the March sisters' story a darker and more contemporary spin.
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Feb 12, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 12, 2026
After a 16-month search, the free speech group has chosen two longtime employees, Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, as co-chief executives.
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Feb 12, 2026
In "End of Days," Chris Jennings recounts how a collision between apocalyptic Christianity and federal overreach led to a deadly standoff in Idaho.
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Feb 12, 2026
After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms.
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Feb 11, 2026
In "Emilio Pucci," the subject's niece and her husband explore the early life of the Italian designer who dressed the jet set.
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Feb 11, 2026
What's a publisher to do when a novel hews close to the news cycle?
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Feb 11, 2026
A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary's infamous "blood countess," separating fact from myth.
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Feb 11, 2026
Rebecca Novack's novel, "Murder Bimbo," is a devious and outrageously entertaining satire that skewers America's surreal political landscape.
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Feb 11, 2026
In "The Boundless Deep," Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson.
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Feb 10, 2026
His book about time-traveling dinosaurs became a movie. He also adapted the Broadway show "Into the Woods" for young readers and wrote about his struggles with dyslexia.
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Feb 10, 2026
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
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Feb 10, 2026
Helen Goh, the British baker and therapist, thinks romantic treats can be tricky. She advises tailoring them to the length of your relationship.
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Feb 09, 2026
The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It's not.
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Feb 09, 2026
Gurnaik Johal follows seven characters in interconnected narratives about climate change and the rise of authoritarianism.
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Feb 09, 2026
Wil Haygood's "The War Within a War" is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.
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Feb 08, 2026
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
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Feb 08, 2026
As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but "A Better Life" feels full of easy targets.
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Feb 08, 2026
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
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Feb 08, 2026
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
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Feb 07, 2026
Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the built world with a wary eye.
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Feb 07, 2026
The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.
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Feb 07, 2026
In her new novel in stories, "This Is Not About Us," Allegra Goodman traces the small but vivid dramas of one sprawling Jewish family.
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Feb 07, 2026
In his new novel, Jonathan Miles considers the complicated ethics and logistics of eliminating an invasive species.
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Feb 06, 2026
Video games are big business, and the company behind Mario, Zelda and Pokémon may be the most important player, says the author of a new corporate history.
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Feb 06, 2026
Our books reporter Elizabeth A. Harris explores the disappearance of mass market paperbacks — and talks with Stephen King about what paperbacks have meant to him.
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Feb 06, 2026
Thirteen recommendations for fans of the Smile series.
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Feb 06, 2026
The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again.
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Feb 05, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 05, 2026
Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work's great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here's where to start.
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Feb 05, 2026
In "A Killing in Cannabis," Scott Eden tells the story of a man who tried to straddle the lines between the legal and black-market cannabis worlds, with deadly consequences.
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Feb 05, 2026
"I love to fall asleep with a book nearby," says the "Autobiography of Cotton" author. "Dreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways."
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Feb 05, 2026
The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.
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Feb 04, 2026
In "Bernie for Burlington," Dan Chiasson's affection for his subject risks turning history into a sales pitch.
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