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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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Sep 14, 2026
In "Profiles in Cowardice," Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy's collection of heroic biographies.
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Sep 13, 2026
Pegged to the anniversary of 9/11, "Hollow Bones" now resonates with the riveting Lindsay Clancy trial.
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Sep 13, 2026
In "Redwood," Ben Macintyre tells the story of a Russian spy in Iran who betrayed his country in exchange for an unusual request.
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Sep 12, 2026
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of "end times fascists" is just fine with the earth's demise.
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Sep 12, 2026
In "A Shadow Over the World," William I. Hitchcock shows how the early struggle against totalitarianism was rife with contradictions.
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Sep 11, 2026
A book influencer shares her most anticipated fall reads. Plus, things to do this weekend that don't involve curling up with a book.
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Sep 11, 2026
In "Dressing the Queen" the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the image.
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Sep 11, 2026
His moody portrait became the album cover for "Kind of Blue." Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.
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Sep 11, 2026
If you're tempted to ghost someone, try a "connected goodbye" instead.
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Sep 11, 2026
A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.
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Sep 10, 2026
Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.
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Sep 10, 2026
"I haven't finished it yet," she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, "Otherwhere," collects 50 years of her poetry.
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Sep 10, 2026
The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky's "Mock Heart" show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.
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Sep 10, 2026
The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.
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Sep 09, 2026
In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.
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Sep 09, 2026
Her new album, "Good Grief," mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel "The Interestings" is about finding a different kind of fulfillment in a creative life than you'd once imagined, which Bareilles knows something about.
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Sep 09, 2026
Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.
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Sep 08, 2026
MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.
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Sep 08, 2026
In "Money to Burn," William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.
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Sep 08, 2026
In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.
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Sep 08, 2026
The author describes the main character of her new novel, "Exit Party," to a forensic sketch artist.
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Sep 08, 2026
The experiences Ms. Kuang had during a summer spent studying Mandarin in the Taiwanese capital helped her shape her newest novel, "Taipei Story."
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Sep 08, 2026
Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.
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Sep 08, 2026
New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.
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Sep 07, 2026
The author behind the cult-classic movie is back with a new series about the power of female friendship — and witches.
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Sep 07, 2026
"Taipei Story," R.F. Kuang's seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.
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Sep 06, 2026
His colloquial language, emotionality and gay topics brought him widespread praise, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and other literary honors.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Living With Freddie," Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her "to be human."
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Sep 06, 2026
In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline's new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Tower Hill," the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.
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Sep 05, 2026
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology "Sisterhood Is Powerful," led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Sep 05, 2026
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "All the Presidents' Wars," the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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Sep 05, 2026
Even a very successful thriller writer fights self-doubt. His new tough-talking writing guide doubles as a memoir that explains why, and how to beat it.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "The Living Realm," an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.
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Sep 04, 2026
Barbara Kingsolver remembers the man she counted among her most important literary mentors.
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Sep 04, 2026
From horror to history to literary fiction, the Book Review editors discuss 31 titles that deserve a look.
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Sep 04, 2026
Meg Howrey's novel "Body Language" doesn't skimp on the kind of absurd humor that thrives in a crucible.
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Sep 04, 2026
Artemis Fowl, celebrating his 25th anniversary, is one for the ages.
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Sep 04, 2026
In "The Ghost of the Mountains," Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi proves there is no substitute for old-fashioned field study.
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Sep 03, 2026
Her 1983 book "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.
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Sep 03, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 03, 2026
Her 1983 book "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.
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Sep 03, 2026
Jonathan Franzen's novel, which put a Midwestern family under the microscope, came out a week before 9/11. Why are we still talking about it?
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Sep 03, 2026
The best-selling author Linwood Barclay recommends his favorite thrillers set in the corporate world.
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Sep 03, 2026
But first, she's publishing a children's book, "Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin,'" because "I wanted to inspire young people to fall in love with music."
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Sep 02, 2026
She was so immersed in "The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones" that she forgot to eat dinner.
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Sep 02, 2026
In "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings," Jared Diamond considers the impact leaders might have had on the course of their civilizations.
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Sep 02, 2026
"The Everest Mystery" takes on the enduring puzzle of two climbers' fates — and pays tribute to the often-overlooked Sandy Irvine.
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Sep 01, 2026
Our columnist on three of the month's best new releases.
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Sep 01, 2026
In "53 Days," the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.
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Sep 01, 2026
"American Scoundrel" traces the career of Roy Cohn, whose smash-mouth politics continue to shape our own.
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Aug 31, 2026
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Aug 31, 2026
The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man's baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.
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Aug 31, 2026
Francis Fukuyama's famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.
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Aug 30, 2026
Marlon James's story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist's banquet — and the Booker Prize winner's finest book yet.
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Aug 30, 2026
With "The Disappearers," the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
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Aug 29, 2026
Robert Harris's new novel, "Agrippa," follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.
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Aug 29, 2026
In "Under Story," a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.
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Aug 29, 2026
"The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard," John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and '70s.
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Aug 28, 2026
Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film.
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Aug 28, 2026
A former Catholic priest, he later became an acclaimed author, writing more than two dozen works about life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.
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Aug 28, 2026
Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.
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Aug 28, 2026
In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon's latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
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Aug 28, 2026
As Shaun Tan reminds us with his stand-alone follow-up to "The Arrival," some truths are so enormous, so beautiful, they can be told only through myth.
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Aug 28, 2026
The best-selling thriller writer Tess Gerritsen likes older detectives who bring a lifetime of experience to their cases.
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Aug 27, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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Aug 27, 2026
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn's protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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Aug 27, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Aug 27, 2026
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes you to her favorite bookstores in Park Slope/Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This tour offers readers a variety of genres, new books and used books.
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Aug 26, 2026
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," a butler in "Clue" or a singing King Arthur in "Spamalot."
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Aug 26, 2026
The crown jewel of the singer's philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn't immune to funding cuts.
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