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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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May 01, 2026
Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl's wake.
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Apr 30, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 30, 2026
"When I love something, I urgently must put it in someone's hands," says the novelist, whose new "Last Night in Brooklyn" is an ode to old-style friendship.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Benjamin Hale's book "Cave Mountain" connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.
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Apr 29, 2026
On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
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Apr 29, 2026
The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad's new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Prophecy," Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
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Apr 29, 2026
Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Japanese Gothic," a 21st-century college student and a 19th-century samurai find themselves occupying the same house.
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Apr 28, 2026
In "Project Maven," Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input.
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Apr 28, 2026
The German writer Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy crackles with life and unsparing details of a broken society.
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Apr 27, 2026
Declared a national living treasure in 1997, he wrote poetry and short stories but was best known for his nine novels, including "The Great World."
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Apr 27, 2026
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature.
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Apr 27, 2026
A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.
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Apr 27, 2026
The nonfiction and novels we can't stop thinking about.
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Apr 27, 2026
The music journalist Bob Spitz, a keeper of numerous rock 'n' roll flames, has turned out a colorful and authoritative new take on a much-documented band.
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Apr 26, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 26, 2026
A middle-aged novelist sifts through memories of growing up in New Jersey in Tom Perrotta's frustratingly formulaic book.
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Apr 26, 2026
In her engaging, sympathetic book "Like, Follow, Subscribe," the journalist Fortesa Latifi digs into growing up in the spotlight.
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Apr 26, 2026
Jordan Harper knows the entertainment industry from the inside out. His new novel, "A Violent Masterpiece," holds nothing back.
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Apr 25, 2026
In her engaging, lyrical "Homesick for a World Unknown," Miriam Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller.
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Apr 25, 2026
It's National Poetry Month! Greg Cowles, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends some poetry books while writing poems with fridge magnets.
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Apr 25, 2026
"If you tell me eight o'clock," the film and martial arts star said, "I will be there 10 or 15 minutes before and wait."
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Apr 25, 2026
The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated "even if we don't hear a single one of his words."
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Apr 25, 2026
In "The Radiant Dark," life is upended after humanity receives a signal from a distant planet. But extraterrestrial contact takes a back seat to more earthly problems.
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Apr 24, 2026
The protagonist of this debut novel wants to get her bathroom upgraded. It becomes a portal to a Turkish prison cell instead.
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Apr 24, 2026
In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner's new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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Apr 24, 2026
In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.
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Apr 24, 2026
In his chatty, compulsively readable first book for adults, Mac Barnett champions his career choice and urges our culture to hold kids in higher esteem.
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Apr 23, 2026
The best-selling author Kelly Yang recommends mysteries set in Tinseltown, from the down and dirty to the deliciously dishy.
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Apr 23, 2026
In a host of books and articles as a political scientist, he attacked received ideas on the battle of the sexes, the usefulness of high school math and other subjects.
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Apr 22, 2026
Our columnist says Jordan Harper's "A Violent Masterpiece" is just that: a violent masterpiece.
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Apr 22, 2026
In "Israel: What Went Wrong?," Omer Bartov charts how a nation founded in the wake of trauma abandoned the emancipatory impulse of its origins.
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Apr 21, 2026
In a host of books he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the usefulness of high school math.
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Apr 21, 2026
In "The Palm House," Gwendoline Riley offers understated yet cleareyed observations of human behavior — this time about middle-aged Londoners struggling to stay relevant.
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Apr 21, 2026
"How It Feels to Be Alive," by Megan O'Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.
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Apr 21, 2026
In Sophie Mackintosh's novel "Permanence," cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication — and missing the mess.
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Apr 20, 2026
A new biography of Jan Morris shows why the journalist, world traveler, historian and essayist was far more than a trailblazer.
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Apr 20, 2026
The autobiographical novella, first published 50 years ago, arguably created a new type of guy: the literary fly fisherman.
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Apr 19, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 19, 2026
Rachel Goldberg-Polin's precise and devastating memoir chronicles the 328 days her son was held hostage in Gaza, and what came after.
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Apr 19, 2026
In "This Vast Enterprise," Craig Fehrman refreshes a familiar story with a rich chorus of voices.
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Apr 18, 2026
In "How to Be a Dissident," Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.
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Apr 17, 2026
The British author Gwendoline Riley may be as emotionally guarded as the women in her novels, which have caught on in America.
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Apr 17, 2026
The author of "A Wolf Called Wander" recommends titles old and new, fantastical and true, that celebrate the natural world.
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Apr 17, 2026
Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote "Famesick," a new memoir, she's taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.
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Apr 17, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 17, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 16, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 16, 2026
Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.
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Apr 16, 2026
Julia Langbein's novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.
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Apr 16, 2026
The U.S. poet laureate's new book, "Transient Worlds," collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.
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Apr 16, 2026
Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.
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Apr 15, 2026
Her 1979 memoir, "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," which also became a movie, detailed years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
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Apr 15, 2026
"I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
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Apr 15, 2026
Mark Rosenblatt's Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children's book author, draws from Dahl's comments over the years.
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Apr 15, 2026
In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk's disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.
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Apr 15, 2026
In "Rasputin," the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina's mystic adviser.
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Apr 15, 2026
Nicholas Enrich's tell-all memoir, "Into the Wood Chipper," has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.
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Apr 15, 2026
This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.
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Apr 14, 2026
Solvej Balle's cult hit series about a woman trapped in a time loop continues with a fourth volume.
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Apr 14, 2026
This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of "Girls."
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Apr 14, 2026
In "RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise," a New York Post reporter paints an intimate portrait of the Kennedy scion and cabinet member.
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Apr 14, 2026
A new history by Jonathan Cheng argues that an influx of missionaries in the late 19th century profoundly shaped the ruling Kim family dynasty.
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Apr 14, 2026
Jim Windolf's new book, "Where the Music Had to Go," traces the influence of Dylan on the Beatles and the Beatles on Dylan.
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Apr 13, 2026
Tucker Carlson Books, a joint venture between Carlson's media company and Skyhorse Publishing, will put out books by Russell Brand, Milo Yiannopoulos and more.
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Apr 13, 2026
Jay McInerney has written about the literary party boy Russell Calloway once a decade since the 1990s. He returns in the Covid novel "See You on the Other Side."
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Apr 13, 2026
"Go Gentle" throws together art heists, sexual assault and a coven of middle-aged divorcées on the Upper West Side.
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Apr 13, 2026
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon both lost loved ones to the conflict in the Middle East. In "The Future Is Peace," they look for hope and understanding.
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