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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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May 13, 2026
His "Ring" trilogy helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned a multimedia franchise, including one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made.
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May 13, 2026
Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d'Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas's tale.
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May 13, 2026
The best-selling author Lynn Painter recommends low-heat love stories that deliver on juicy tension, crackling banter and plenty of swoon.
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May 12, 2026
The best-selling author and collector explains what draws him to add to his own bookshelves.
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May 12, 2026
What to expect at the book fair in the Saatchi Gallery.
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May 12, 2026
Here's a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.
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May 12, 2026
In Veronica Roth's "Seek the Traitor's Son," a soldier in a pandemic-ravaged world is forced to become the hope of her people.
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May 12, 2026
In "AI for Good," Josh Tyrangiel talks to the classrooms, hospitals and research labs where people are using artificial intelligence that might benefit society.
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May 12, 2026
"Nerve Damage," by Annakeara Stinson, is a jittery psychological thriller about a woman whose creepy ex simply won't let her go.
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May 11, 2026
"Men Like Ours," a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.
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May 11, 2026
With the help of a forensic artist, Amitav Ghosh puts a face to the name of Varsha Gupta, the central figure of his new novel, "Ghost Eye."
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May 11, 2026
Suzanne Simard's new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.
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May 10, 2026
Three new books — a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir and a dual biography — provide divergent views on the business of buying and selling, and they are out just in time for New York Art Week.
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May 10, 2026
In John Lanchester's "Look What You Made Me Do," a widow is unnerved when a hit TV series airs details from her marriage a little too closely.
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May 09, 2026
The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.
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May 09, 2026
Rita Collins had a dream for her retirement: bringing books and people together all over the country. Behind the wheel of a van she's making it happen.
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May 09, 2026
In "Selling Opportunity," Mary Lisa Gavenas tells the not-always-rosy story of Mary Kay, the brand — and its founder.
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May 09, 2026
As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.
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May 08, 2026
Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.
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May 08, 2026
Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be "punishing." Still, some considered him one of England's most important poets.
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May 08, 2026
"Wild Swans," a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao's regime.
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May 08, 2026
The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep's clothing.
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May 08, 2026
From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.
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May 08, 2026
As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.
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May 08, 2026
In "One Leg on Earth," a young college grad's idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.
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May 08, 2026
In "Screen People," Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.
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May 08, 2026
The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.
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May 08, 2026
In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.
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May 08, 2026
"A Rumor of War," about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed "the things men do in war and the things war does to them."
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May 07, 2026
Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.
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May 07, 2026
Fonda Lee's "cyberpunk samurai in space" novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.
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May 06, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 06, 2026
In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul community for insights into Turkey's hard-right turn.
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May 06, 2026
What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Show" on Broadway? Fishnets, five-inch heels, and an endless supply of glitter.
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May 06, 2026
Our columnist on the month's standout books.
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May 06, 2026
Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.
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May 06, 2026
The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
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May 05, 2026
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.
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May 05, 2026
"The Family Man," by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.
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May 05, 2026
Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark's "The Hill" portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother's jail cell and the world outside.
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May 05, 2026
"Riverwork," by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.
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May 05, 2026
In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.
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May 05, 2026
Séamas O'Reilly's new novel is a boisterous sendup of "prestige" media and its distortion of Northern Ireland's complex past.
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.
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May 04, 2026
"The Things We Never Say" leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.
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May 04, 2026
In the powerful and surprising "John of John," Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he'd left behind.
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May 03, 2026
Her new memoir, "True Crime," traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world's most famous thriller writers.
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May 03, 2026
Kathryn Stockett's prodigious second novel, "The Calamity Club," brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.
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May 03, 2026
It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was "fired" by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she's back on home turf with "The Calamity Club."
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May 02, 2026
In "The Successor," the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.
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May 02, 2026
In her memoir "Backtalker," Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw shows how personal trauma spurred her influential and controversial ideas about race and gender.
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May 01, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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