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Jan 14, 2026
"Call Me Ishmaelle," by Xiaolu Guo, audaciously revises Herman Melville's American classic.
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Jan 14, 2026
A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.
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Jan 13, 2026
Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.
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Jan 13, 2026
A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash's satirical novel, "Lost Lambs."
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Jan 13, 2026
The fourth novel in his Morning Star series follows an ambitious young photographer in 1985 London.
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Jan 13, 2026
In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here's where to start.
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Jan 13, 2026
"Miracle Children" details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.
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Jan 12, 2026
In "Catapult," an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.
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Jan 12, 2026
In "The Revolutionists," the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the Middle East.
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Jan 11, 2026
He saw the origins of modern America in the years between 1815 and 1848, when revolutions in technology and media transformed a nation of isolated farms.
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Jan 11, 2026
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is accusing a private hospital in Lagos of administering an overdose of a sedative, prompting an outpouring of complaints by Nigerians about their health care system.
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Jan 11, 2026
His 1968 book, "Chariots of the Gods," sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a "warped parody of reasoning."
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Jan 11, 2026
Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
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Jan 11, 2026
Sara Levine's "The Hitch" is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.
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Jan 11, 2026
Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
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Jan 11, 2026
Belle Burden shook off her natural reserve to turn her viral divorce essay into "Strangers," a bracing memoir.
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Jan 10, 2026
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
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Jan 10, 2026
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
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Jan 10, 2026
The author and the actors Emily Bader and Tom Blyth explain why the movie differs from the novel and raise the possibility of spinoffs.
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Jan 10, 2026
In "The Cradle of Citizenship," the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they're learning anything at all.
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Jan 10, 2026
"The Old Fire," an atmospheric new novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.
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Jan 09, 2026
The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.
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Jan 09, 2026
"Common Sense," published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the radical founder's strange and winding story.
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Jan 09, 2026
When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.
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Jan 09, 2026
Evans's epistolary tale, about a retired lawyer who spends her days writing to a series of pen pals, became one of last year's sleeper hits.
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Jan 09, 2026
In a trilogy of novellas, a writer explores lives haunted by colonialism and slavery.
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Jan 09, 2026
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago this week, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of his strange and winding story.
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Jan 09, 2026
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books to read before their film adaptation releases this year.
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Jan 09, 2026
Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated "concept" books have never had a more potentially receptive audience.
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Jan 09, 2026
In "Sheer," the novelist Vanessa Lawrence imagines the improbable rise and inglorious fall of a self-made Gen X beauty mogul.
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Jan 09, 2026
Swoony reads will transport you from the doldrums of winter to a Caribbean resort, a Hamptons beach, the streets of Paris and more.
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Jan 08, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 08, 2026
Starring in the 1992 film adaptation helped launch an eclectic career. "Ongoing" is the book that accompanies a retrospective on her work.
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Jan 08, 2026
"I'm writing for the kid I used to be," says Dav Pilkey, who defied expectations to create three blockbuster graphic-novel series.
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Jan 07, 2026
He said he would retire from writing and public speaking.
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Jan 07, 2026
From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- and design-lovers alike.
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Jan 07, 2026
Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne Phillips; and more.
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Jan 07, 2026
Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more.
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Jan 06, 2026
"The Freedom Manifesto," by María Corina Machado, will lay out the Nobel laureate's vision for a "new era," its publisher said.
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Jan 06, 2026
In his enthralling "The Spy in the Archive," Gordon Corera tells the story of an unlikely hero embedded within the heart of the agency.
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Jan 06, 2026
In the Goncourt winner "Watching Over Her," Jean-Baptiste Andrea traces the personal and political entanglements of a sculptor whose swagger belies his physical stature.
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Jan 06, 2026
In "Advance Britannia," Alan Allport shows the fighting from the perspective of England and its colonies.
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Jan 06, 2026
Javier Moro's new novel focuses on a 19th-century architect who left an indelible imprint on the city.
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Jan 05, 2026
"This Is Where the Serpent Lives," by Daniyal Mueenuddin, recalls the power of Russian classics.
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Jan 05, 2026
"People We Meet on Vacation," "Wuthering Heights" and "Project Hail Mary" are some of this year's most anticipated adaptations.
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Jan 04, 2026
In a useful entry in the growing canon of "quit lit," Charles Knowles blends science and memoir to persuade readers to cut down on alcohol.
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Jan 02, 2026
He was a founder of More, which skewered the foibles of the press in the 1970s, and later wrote a critical biography of the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim.
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Jan 02, 2026
In "American Reich," the former New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau dissects the culture of hate that led to the death of a gay man in Southern California.
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Jan 02, 2026
A new graphic novel both celebrates and demystifies the colorful frontier icon, while also correcting some of her taller tales.
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Jan 01, 2026
"Fingers crossed she isn't racist — it was a different time," says the author of "My Sister, the Serial Killer" and the recent "Cursed Daughters."
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Dec 31, 2025
These novels usher readers into fascinating, long-ago worlds.
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Dec 31, 2025
Lola Lafon's book "When You Listen to This Song" is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways.
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Dec 30, 2025
An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker, drawing worldwide sympathy.
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Dec 30, 2025
Omri Boehm's new book argues that both the left and the right must abandon divisive identity politics and embrace the transformative power of Enlightenment ideals.
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Dec 30, 2025
"Grand Rapids," by Natasha Stagg, is an unassuming portrait of a Midwestern teenager's grief and transformation.
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Dec 30, 2025
Fiction by George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Laura Dave; a bracingly honest divorce memoir; Jennette McCurdy's debut novel; and more.
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Dec 30, 2025
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here's how book sales looked in 2025.
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Dec 29, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 29, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 28, 2025
A middle-age man fighting illness and marital woe heads west in Ben Markovits's poignant new novel, a Booker Prize finalist.
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Dec 27, 2025
In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.
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Dec 27, 2025
Our columnist has recommendations.
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Dec 26, 2025
Ian McEwan's latest novel, one of the Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar's search for a long-lost poem.
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Dec 26, 2025
In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis's debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor.
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Dec 26, 2025
Two books center on small acts of grit and valor, from a bold little onion to an orphaned boy carrying messages for the French Resistance.
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Dec 26, 2025
Our columnist on three novels worth your time.
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Dec 25, 2025
An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.
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Dec 25, 2025
The nonfiction spy thriller "The Falcon and the Snowman," which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times.
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Dec 25, 2025
Such as: A shrewd move by George Washington. Why Gauguin wore a 10-gallon hat. And the benefits of breathing through your nose
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Dec 24, 2025
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
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Dec 24, 2025
Our columnist on seven terrific mysteries deservedly back in print.
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Dec 23, 2025
In "Captives and Companions," Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa.
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Dec 23, 2025
These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
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Dec 22, 2025
An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the writer himself once did for sold-out crowds.
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Dec 22, 2025
Betty Fussell's new memoir offers insights on aging, stories about love and a recipe for coyote pie.
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Dec 22, 2025
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
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Dec 22, 2025
The teen detectives and alien enigmas of the Nova Scotia-set "Hobtown Mystery Stories" return for a third supernatural outing.
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Dec 21, 2025
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
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Dec 21, 2025
On the joys of having stories in my ears — and yes, listening counts.
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Dec 21, 2025
After this Booker Prize finalist became seriously ill, everything seemed very real, and everything seemed to matter.
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Dec 20, 2025
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracking his career from his first term as California governor through his eight years in the White House.
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Dec 19, 2025
His Pulitzer-nominated book "Graven Images" inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
"Some of us feel exhausted, some of us feel energized." The Book Review looks back on the year's biggest stories and trends in the publishing industry.
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Dec 19, 2025
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
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Dec 19, 2025
The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the characters do.
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Dec 18, 2025
"Plain and Simple," her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
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Dec 18, 2025
To capture Jane Austen's brief life and enormous impact, editors at The New York Times Book Review assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
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Dec 18, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the most popular books you saved to your reading lists.
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Dec 18, 2025
It's the day the "Animal Goncourt" is awarded. "Who better," a judge says, "to talk about the fabulous relationship between animals and men than writers and philosophers?"
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Dec 18, 2025
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In "This Year," he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
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Dec 18, 2025
Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism.
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Dec 17, 2025
"Furious Minds," by Laura K. Field, traces the ascendancy of hard-right thinkers whose contempt for liberal democracy is shaping American politics.
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Dec 17, 2025
Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
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Dec 16, 2025
In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.
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Dec 16, 2025
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
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