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Jun 05, 2026
Some will have you mentally arranging flowers for your own happy day. Others provide the vicarious thrill of watching it all burn.
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Jun 05, 2026
From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.
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Jun 05, 2026
In "The Man Who Stole the Gods," Matthew Campbell recounts a shocking, decades-long crime and the search for its perpetrator.
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Jun 05, 2026
Following his "Less" books with "Villa Coco," Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.
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Jun 05, 2026
As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's classic fable is as apt as ever.
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Jun 04, 2026
He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author's most famous works.
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Jun 04, 2026
"Checkmate," Ben Mezrich's tale of chess scandal, may be ready for its close-up — but not for a close read.
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Jun 04, 2026
These books dig into the thrilling, ugly and swoon-worthy drama of a happy couple's big day.
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Jun 03, 2026
Caissie Levy was Broadway's first Elsa. She starred in "Hair" and "Ghost." And now, for "Ragtime," she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.
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Jun 03, 2026
As presented in Andrea Wulf's new biography, "The Traveler," George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.
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Jun 03, 2026
Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.
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Jun 03, 2026
The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.
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Jun 03, 2026
In "The Wreck of the Mentor," the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.
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Jun 03, 2026
The year is nearly halfway over. Here's what we've been listening to.
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Jun 02, 2026
The former first lady's new book reflects an insular White House where loyalty was prized and President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s feelings were prioritized over health concerns.
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Jun 02, 2026
Josh Weil's new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.
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Jun 02, 2026
In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.
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Jun 02, 2026
Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, "Land" is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland's long struggle against British rule.
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Jun 02, 2026
"The Fire Agent," by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.
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Jun 01, 2026
A collection of Harold Bloom's letters details the working life of one of America's most influential intellects.
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Jun 01, 2026
Historical chronicles and flights of fancy, all with L.G.B.T.Q. protagonists, arrive starting in June.
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Jun 01, 2026
Novels by Ann Patchett, Maggie O'Farrell and Dave Eggers; memoirs by Jill Biden and Laverne Cox; sci-fi adventures by a Pulitzer Prize winner; and more.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "1873," the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.
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Jun 01, 2026
Joana Avillez took six years to illustrate a new edition of Joseph Mitchell's "The Bottom of the Harbor," which captures the salty New York neighborhood of her youth.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "Whistler," a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of their lives.
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May 31, 2026
In "Rabbit, Fox, Tar," a white neighborhood's local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.
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May 31, 2026
Our critic on four terrific new mysteries.
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May 30, 2026
In Sonia Feldman's novel, "Girl's Girl," the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.
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May 30, 2026
In her book "Sublimation," Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.
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May 29, 2026
Lerner's new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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May 29, 2026
In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.
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May 29, 2026
Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband's successor, "View From the East Wing" largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood.
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May 29, 2026
Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek's "Found Sound" and Aida Salazar's "Stream" send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.
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May 28, 2026
Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of "Doonesbury" reunites with the journalist who pieced together his life story.
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May 28, 2026
"I love a clever puppet master," says the author of the Divergent series and the new "Seek the Traitor's Son." Her favorite hero? Antigone.
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May 28, 2026
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
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May 28, 2026
New fiction from Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and much more.
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May 27, 2026
Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly African American artist.
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May 27, 2026
A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.
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May 27, 2026
Our critic on three standout May books.
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May 27, 2026
In "Killing Spree," Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.
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May 27, 2026
For decades, publishers have swapped out cultural references in new editions of books to appeal to younger readers. Fans aren't always thrilled.
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May 26, 2026
He wrote 31 books, often drawing on his experiences as a pro football publicist, a foreign correspondent and a gun-toting spokesman for the N.Y.P.D.
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May 26, 2026
In his rethinking of Jean Genet's classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders "a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself."
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May 26, 2026
In "Freedom Round the Globe," Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the United States.
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May 26, 2026
Tom Lin's new novel, "Babylon, South Dakota," reimagines the western with surreal elements.
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May 26, 2026
The stoic narrator of "The Vivisectors" befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.
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May 26, 2026
Matt Haig returns with another life-affirming novel, this one about a man on a magical train that helps him revisit key moments of his life.
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May 25, 2026
A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.
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May 25, 2026
In "America, U.S.A.," Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country's past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.
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May 24, 2026
It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married.
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May 24, 2026
If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you'll need.
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May 23, 2026
Fans are traveling great distances for the chance to meet Tom Felton, who has revived a now grown-up Draco Malfoy on Broadway in "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child."
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May 23, 2026
In "The Danger to Be Sane," the journalist Rosa Montero delves into the connections between psychic turbulence and creative work — including her own.
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May 22, 2026
This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here's how the latest iteration came to be.
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May 22, 2026
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
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May 22, 2026
In "Dekonstructing the Kardashians," MJ Corey takes America's most famous TV clan seriously.
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May 22, 2026
As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.
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May 22, 2026
In David Sedaris's wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.
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May 22, 2026
The national ambassador for young people's literature published a manifesto aimed at adults. Then came the blowback.
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May 21, 2026
Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year's prize.
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May 21, 2026
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of "The Hunger Games," hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.
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May 21, 2026
The best-selling author Rachel Gillig recommends books that bring the haunted hallmarks of Gothic fiction into enchanted settings.
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May 20, 2026
Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.
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May 20, 2026
A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren't all so sure.
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May 20, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best books.
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May 20, 2026
In her ingenious "Dog Days," Emily LaBarge writes about a terrifying event without resorting to "the trauma plot."
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May 20, 2026
Ali Smith's new novel, "Glyph," dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.
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May 20, 2026
A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family's life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.
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May 20, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn and Harriet Clark on activism, violence, guilt and trying to make sense of their "incomprehensible" early days.
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May 19, 2026
A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.
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May 19, 2026
"Taiwan Travelogue" is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
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May 19, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn's parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.
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May 19, 2026
The fast success of this play, about the children's author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.
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May 19, 2026
Lots of guys are recommending "As a Man Thinketh" for self-improvement. That's not what it gave me.
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May 19, 2026
In "An Inconvenient Widow," Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.
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May 19, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn's parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.
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May 19, 2026
For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.
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May 18, 2026
The two-time National Book Award winner collects essays, profiles and appreciations in a new book, "On Witness and Respair."
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May 18, 2026
In "The Theater," the journalist James Verini recounts the bombing of a performing arts space turned refugee shelter in the middle of war-torn Mariupol.
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May 18, 2026
The best-selling author recommends books by Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and more where the line between nemeses and soul mates becomes deliciously flimsy.
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May 18, 2026
In his first book, Theo Baker chronicles an outrageously eventful year navigating a potent center of power.
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May 18, 2026
Kennedy Ryan just landed a TV deal for her breakout novel. Her new books challenge readers — and her characters — to dive into the Harlem Renaissance.
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May 17, 2026
The writer and illustrator William Steig lived several lives before his book about a surly ogre became a Hollywood hit.
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May 17, 2026
In "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," Andrew Durbin reconstructs the coterie that surrounded the artist-lovers Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
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May 17, 2026
Her mother put her on TV at 11 months old. She lost custody of her own daughter. The "Nashville" star has a lot to reckon with in her new memoir.
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May 16, 2026
Steven Rowley's new novel, "Take Me With You," asks who we are without our partners.
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May 16, 2026
The popular astrophysicist can be witty and informative when making science accessible. You wouldn't know it from his new book, "Take Me to Your Leader."
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May 16, 2026
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo's novel follows a commitment-averse liar who is plagued by visions of violence.
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May 15, 2026
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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May 15, 2026
The author of the InvestiGators series recommends books from his childhood as well as more recent faves.
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May 15, 2026
The best-selling author Vaishnavi Patel recommends speculative fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Olivie Blake and more that speaks to our world today.
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May 15, 2026
Stefanie Joseph and Christopher Richards, who met on a dating app three years ago, immediately bonded over their love of reading.
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May 14, 2026
For 20 years, he hid his identity behind the nom de plume Foolbert Sturgeon as he chronicled Christ's encounters with modern-day hypocrites in comic-book form.
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May 14, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 14, 2026
At 50, on a lark, she published a romance novel with her husband, Michael Fain. Like their characters, they found their lives transformed by unexpected success.
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May 14, 2026
Sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, he helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made.
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May 14, 2026
On her new album, "Norteña," the singer embraces regional traditions and unlocks her most personal songwriting yet.
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May 14, 2026
A reporter's essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia.
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May 14, 2026
"Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be," the Oscar-winning actress and author says. "But it is good exercise."
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