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Jun 26, 2026
Caro Claire Burke's best-selling novel, about a tradwife influencer with some surprises in store, is one of the buzziest books of 2026.
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Jun 26, 2026
In July, the Book Review Book Club will be discussing Stuart's latest novel, about a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
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Jun 25, 2026
A former covert operative, he published his resignation letter in The Washington Post and went on to write "In Search of Enemies," a book the agency sought to suppress.
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Jun 25, 2026
A self-described "paintoonist," Mr. Moriarty created cartoons with spare dialogue that reminded his admirers of poetry or Samuel Beckett's plays.
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Jun 25, 2026
Kwame Alexander is starting up an imprint at Sourcebooks, an innovative publisher that has found success in giving authors larger roles in the publishing process.
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Jun 25, 2026
The author Ashley Herring Blake recommends swoony Sapphic novels that celebrate love between women across eras and genres.
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Jun 25, 2026
"I can always wait for the streaming version and hope for nudity," says the writer, whose new novel, "The Tuxedo Society," is about a cadre of gay spies.
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Jun 24, 2026
Our columnist reviews "The Tapestry of Fate" and other books.
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Jun 24, 2026
Our critic looks at the best recent releases.
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Jun 24, 2026
Janet Fash's memoir is both a sunny coming-of-age story and an exposé of corruption, understaffing and unnecessary deaths at Rockaway Beach.
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Jun 24, 2026
An early champion of the mind-body connection, she held influential positions at Vogue, wrote steamy novels and regularly appeared in the tabloids.
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Jun 23, 2026
The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn't in the director's forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine's voice off on its own adventure.
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Jun 23, 2026
The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.
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Jun 23, 2026
The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn't in the director's forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine's voice off on its own adventure.
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Jun 23, 2026
In "The Housewives Underground," the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.
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Jun 23, 2026
Monica Datta's "Nebraska" is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.
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Jun 22, 2026
"The Emergency Playbook" is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.
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Jun 21, 2026
He joined the magazine's staff at 23. Among the subjects of his profiles were the magician Ricky Jay and a pre-politics Donald Trump.
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Jun 21, 2026
The once-closeted star has reinvented her song "Girls Like Girls" as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn't easy.
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Jun 21, 2026
Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.
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Jun 20, 2026
The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.
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Jun 20, 2026
The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.
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Jun 20, 2026
In "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence.
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Jun 19, 2026
His best-selling book celebrated the servicemen in the stirring photograph of the U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima. One, it was long believed, was his father.
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Jun 19, 2026
How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover's quarrel with cinema — and America.
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Jun 19, 2026
Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience a ghost and, if you play it right, almost just leave it at that.
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Jun 18, 2026
The author of books like "The Possible Human," she held workshops that drew on mythology, psychology and the experiential ethos of Esalen. But she refused to be called a guru.
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Jun 18, 2026
The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.
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Jun 18, 2026
In "Regime Change," two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.
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Jun 18, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 18, 2026
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson's home with my American-born history-buff son.
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Jun 17, 2026
A former monk who was also Uma Thurman's father, he made sure Buddhism retained its intellectual and spiritual rigor as it spread through the West.
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Jun 17, 2026
In books like "The Cheese and the Worms," he helped push beyond the story of great events and leaders, entering the minds and hearts of peasants.
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Jun 16, 2026
As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black.
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Jun 16, 2026
Amy Griffin contended that she was defamed when a former classmate accused her in a lawsuit of appropriating parts of her story of being sexually abused for "The Tell."
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Jun 16, 2026
Resort book clubs, tour companies, hotel libraries and a growing number of literary festivals are offering readers new ways to indulge their interests.
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Jun 16, 2026
The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.
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Jun 16, 2026
The stories in her new collection deal in jagged emergencies and in wounds both physical and psychic.
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Jun 16, 2026
In "Presence," the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood.
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Jun 16, 2026
Fascinating if overstuffed, Amitav Ghosh's "Ghost-Eye" connects the mystifying case of a girl in Calcutta to the global climate crisis.
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Jun 15, 2026
In "The Nord Stream Conspiracy," the investigative journalist Bojan Pancevski tells a high-stakes international war story in blockbuster prose.
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Jun 14, 2026
She wrote some 450 books, including novels, poetry and nonfiction in many genres. One critic called her "a modern equivalent to Aesop."
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Jun 14, 2026
In "Empire of Ink," Alex Wright describes how newfangled technologies and disruptive personalities have regularly unsettled the American media.
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Jun 14, 2026
Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.
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Jun 13, 2026
With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.
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Jun 13, 2026
Her debut novel taps into a microgeneration's blurring of performance and reality.
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Jun 13, 2026
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor's new book, "Something We Said," is at once a memoir and a history of a racial slur.
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Jun 13, 2026
In "They All Fall in Love at the End," a young Black woman navigates taboo attractions and a contentious political environment while working toward a creative writing degree.
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Jun 12, 2026
In "Drayton and Mackenzie," two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.
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Jun 12, 2026
Lush historical fiction, gripping thrillers, true crime, laugh-out-loud essays and more: Here are the books you've saved most to your reading lists.
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Jun 12, 2026
In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.
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Jun 12, 2026
Kate Milford's cozy mystery is set at an abandoned amusement park, while Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer's horror satire unfolds at a malevolent sleepaway camp.
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Jun 11, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 11, 2026
In "The American School of Spies," Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.
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Jun 11, 2026
In her lyrical new biography, "This Dark Night," Deborah Lutz shines light on the most enigmatic of the literary, secluded Brontë sisters.
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Jun 11, 2026
She wanted to learn about pyramids, and ended up with hallucinatory sex scenes. Her new book is a provocation: Just what genre is it anyway?
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Jun 10, 2026
Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to Hollywood stardom. But it's being released amid a backlash over transgender rights that's caught up to her, too.
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Jun 10, 2026
Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can't be beat.
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Jun 10, 2026
In her new history, "Cocked and Boozy," Brooke Barbier illuminates the pervasive role that alcohol played throughout the colonial era.
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Jun 10, 2026
Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to Hollywood stardom. But it's being released amid a backlash over transgender rights that's caught up to her, too.
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Jun 09, 2026
After nearly nine years of practice, he made John Milton's epic poem vividly dramatic for audiences and inspired a study of his "memory virtuosity."
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Jun 09, 2026
In Ben Fountain's new novel, Washington insiders scheme to replace the president with a religious professional wrestler.
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Jun 09, 2026
Set in 1962 Los Angeles, "Red Sheet" follows the murder and mayhem behind a "mini Red Scare."
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Jun 08, 2026
In a Pulitzer-winning book, "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation.
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Jun 08, 2026
In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years.
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Jun 07, 2026
His five-volume "Children of Crisis" series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.
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Jun 07, 2026
In this satisfyingly old-school novel, an artist tries to find his place, and hold onto his spark, in a world that values fads and flash.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
The short story, which is set during World War I, is believed to have been printed for the first time on Friday. The story is thought to have been written no earlier than July 1918.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
Deb Olin Unferth's new novel is part cosmic comedy and part dirge for our dying world.
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Jun 06, 2026
Summer's here. It's hot. Let these books deliver some chills.
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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
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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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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