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Nov 06, 2025
A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
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Nov 06, 2025
Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.
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Nov 06, 2025
The second novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite, the breakout author of "My Sister, the Serial Killer," offers a sweeping and sobering take on romantic fatalism.
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Nov 06, 2025
From cradle to late life, the godmother of punk remembers it all — including, especially, her life with the late Fred "Sonic" Smith.
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Nov 06, 2025
Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" is the favorite, but books by Andrew Miller, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi are also in the running for the prestigious award.
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Nov 06, 2025
In "The Great Math War," Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.
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Nov 06, 2025
Katherine Rundell, Christopher Paolini and other writers mark the 75th anniversary of the book's U.S. publication: "It taught me to long for big pleasures."
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Nov 06, 2025
Meeting traveling nurses during the pandemic led to "Sacrament," her 10th novel. "Our memories will be indelible," she says, "like my father's stories of the Dust Bowl."
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Nov 05, 2025
The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.
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Nov 05, 2025
In Gráinne O'Hare's witty debut, "Thirst Trap," 30th birthdays — and an unexpected death — signal new horizons (if not sobriety) for three longtime friends in Belfast.
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Nov 05, 2025
Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.
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Nov 05, 2025
The reimagined series from Audible features a voice cast of more than 200 actors, a 60-piece orchestra and an immersive soundscape.
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Nov 05, 2025
In "The Heart-Shaped Tin," the British food writer Bee Wilson offers a bittersweet ode to the everyday tools we use in the kitchen, along with stories great and small.
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Nov 05, 2025
In her new book, "We Fell Apart," the young adult novelist returns to Martha's Vineyard — and teen friendship — for the third time.
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Nov 05, 2025
In Benjamin Wood's atmospheric novel "Seascraper," recently longlisted for the Booker, a visitor brings the big world to a small fishing village.
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Nov 05, 2025
The best-selling fantasy writer Holly Black recommends novels that blend the thrills of a well-executed crime with intrigue and sorcery.
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Nov 04, 2025
John Richardson's "Luigi" takes on the case of a murdered insurance executive and his alleged killer.
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Nov 04, 2025
In Harriet Lane's latest novel, "Other People's Fun," the reunion of two former classmates takes a wicked turn.
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Nov 04, 2025
"False War," by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, follows the Cuban diaspora around the world.
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Nov 04, 2025
In her unnerving novel, Viola van de Sandt explores the breakdown of a relationship over one very, very bad evening.
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Nov 04, 2025
In tracing the journeys of two frenemies with art-world aspirations, Anika Jade Levy's "Flat Earth" distills the angst and aimlessness of a generation.
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Nov 03, 2025
"Book of Lives" offers two distinct versions of the esteemed novelist: "Peggy Nature" and "the brooder."
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Nov 03, 2025
With "Entertaining," a seminal cookbook that's being newly reissued, the original lifestyle influencer changed the culture and built her empire.
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Nov 03, 2025
Emmanuel Carrère's best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views.
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Nov 03, 2025
"Injustice," by the veteran journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, follows federal prosecutors at work under the presidencies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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Nov 02, 2025
Three new stories, including a campus-set novella, are the heart of "The Eleventh Hour," a book that strains to recall the author's richest work.
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Nov 02, 2025
His new novel returns to a familiar setting to examine antisemitism, 20th-century history and nontraditional parenting.
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Nov 02, 2025
In "The Finest Hotel in Kabul," the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.
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Nov 01, 2025
In "The Ephemerata," the veteran graphic novelist Carol Tyler explores the nature of loss.
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Nov 01, 2025
A congressional race rich in sex and social intrigue divides locals and weekenders in Brian Schaefer's novel, "Town & Country."
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Nov 01, 2025
She had to be pushed to write her new memoir, "Book of Lives." The result reveals the experiences (and a few slights) that have shaped her work.
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Oct 31, 2025
In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
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Oct 31, 2025
Stephen Graham Jones's horror novel offers a visceral take on the vampire legend.
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Oct 31, 2025
In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O'Farrell's historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare.
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Oct 31, 2025
In Guillermo del Toro's new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created.
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Oct 31, 2025
"Indignity," by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph.
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Oct 31, 2025
A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.
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Oct 30, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 30, 2025
He announced that "The Once and Future Riot," which considers sectarian violence in India, would be his last. But he's compelled to return to Gaza.
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Oct 30, 2025
With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre's hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here's where to start.
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Oct 30, 2025
Mark Z. Danielewski has returned with "Tom's Crossing," a 1,200-page western that is both more accessible than his earlier work and "the book of my life."
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Oct 29, 2025
The author Wole Soyinka, a vocal critic of President Trump, told the Nigerian press he did not attend a visa renewal interview requested by the State Department.
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Oct 29, 2025
The Biden White House press secretary, peddling a book that makes Democrats unhappy, gives an "absolute train wreck'' of an interview to The New Yorker.
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Oct 29, 2025
Helen DeWitt's bewildering co-written novel, "Your Name Here," took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.
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Oct 29, 2025
"Down Cemetery Road," with Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson, arrives on Apple TV on Wednesday. It's the latest thriller based on books by Herron, the "Slow Horses" author.
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Oct 29, 2025
Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three Stephen King movie adaptations and how they differ from their source material.
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Oct 29, 2025
Tim Wu's "The Age of Extraction" is a dispiriting guide to the way Silicon Valley has warped our markets and our democracy.
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Oct 29, 2025
New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more.
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Oct 29, 2025
New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more.
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Oct 28, 2025
Mark Z. Danielewski's new novel follows two teenagers determined to save a pair of ponies from slaughter.
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Oct 28, 2025
In "Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta," John Boessenecker probes the life of a dashing (but human) Wild West legend.
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Oct 28, 2025
In a new essay collection, the novelist and critic offers her observations on artists, technology and a vanishing public commons.
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Oct 28, 2025
In "Let My Country Awake," Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Oct 28, 2025
In "The Great Contradiction," the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage.
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Oct 27, 2025
The rock journalist turned writer turned filmmaker styles himself "The Uncool" in his new book.
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Oct 27, 2025
His gritty novels have spawned a cottage industry and become a rallying point for fellow veterans. "Cry Havoc" is the latest.
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Oct 26, 2025
In the transporting monograph "Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real," the gifted young photographer traces a path from high fashion to his Georgia roots.
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Oct 26, 2025
In "When All the Men Wore Hats," Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.
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Oct 26, 2025
A plea for humanism and honesty, "The Rose Field" wraps up the fantastical saga set in motion with "His Dark Materials."
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Oct 25, 2025
Erica Ackerberg, a Times photo editor, calls the photographer Tyler Mitchell to chat about three photos from his new book, "Wish This Was Real."
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Oct 25, 2025
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
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Oct 25, 2025
The actor, now 87, talks about his childhood, the epiphanies in his life and more.
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Oct 25, 2025
Our critic on four sizzling new releases.
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Oct 24, 2025
Basketball and Dua Lipa are on the schedule during a New York jaunt with the Nobel laureate, whose intimate memoir finds her juggling activism and married life.
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Oct 24, 2025
Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead.
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Oct 24, 2025
"Giving myself freedom" has been Chris Kraus's goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising "working-class saga."
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Oct 24, 2025
I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in "The Story of Babar." My daughter was freaked out by "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Then came my niece.
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Oct 23, 2025
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
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Oct 23, 2025
The beloved British fantasy writer Philip Pullman concludes his Book of Dust trilogy with Lyra Belacqua's final adventure.
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Oct 23, 2025
"Joyride," her new book, started as a guide for aspiring journalists, but turned into a full-fledged memoir about her high-flying life and career.
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Oct 23, 2025
I named my daughter after Lyra, his intrepid protagonist. Now, in the final installment of the blockbuster fantasy saga, we get to see how she turned out.
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Oct 23, 2025
In "Horror's New Wave," Jason Blum celebrates 15 years of unnerving audiences. His advice to publishers: "Sometimes it's good to rely on your gut."
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Unabridged," Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade.
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Motherland," the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country's failure to live up to that promise.
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Pride and Pleasure," the biographer Amanda Vaill tells the story of these complex women with warmth, humor and insight.
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Oct 22, 2025
The thriller writer Hank Phillippi Ryan recommends seemingly impossible, deeply satisfying whodunits.
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Oct 21, 2025
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France's National Library is raising money to buy it.
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Oct 21, 2025
"The Land of Sweet Forever" includes stories and essays by a writer who grappled with her Southern roots.
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Oct 21, 2025
In "Capturing Kahanamoku," the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a beautiful sport.
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Oct 21, 2025
The tidying expert has just published a new book about travel's impact on her life. She shares tips for how to encounter the world, and, maybe, leave it a little better after your visit.
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Oct 21, 2025
In Nic Stone's new book, "Boom Town," a dancer at a strip club in Atlanta must search for her peers who have disappeared.
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Oct 21, 2025
Joe Hill's wild horror novel follows a group of friends and the mythic demon that haunts them for the rest of their lives.
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Oct 21, 2025
Olivie Blake's darkly comedic campus novel "Girl Dinner" explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
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Oct 21, 2025
Olivie Blake's darkly comedic campus novel "Girl Dinner" explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
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Oct 21, 2025
Our critic on four notable releases.
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Oct 20, 2025
In "Winston and the Windsors," the prolific biographer Andrew Morton, perhaps inevitably, tackles two British behemoths.
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Oct 20, 2025
The prolific novelist's correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures.
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Oct 20, 2025
The beloved British fantasy writer Philip Pullman concludes his Book of Dust trilogy with Lyra Belacqua's final adventure.
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Oct 19, 2025
"Every Day Is Sunday," by a New York Times reporter, tracks the dominant influence of Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft and Roger Goodell.
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Oct 19, 2025
In Hiromi Kawakami's new novel, a young woman responds to her husband's infidelities in creative ways.
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Oct 19, 2025
Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history.
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Oct 18, 2025
She started as the magazine's glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.
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Oct 18, 2025
In "The Ten Year Affair," the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother's infidelity.
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Oct 18, 2025
A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher's restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.
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Oct 18, 2025
Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.
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Oct 18, 2025
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who've tuned in to the zaniness all along.
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Oct 17, 2025
It's October, which means it's time for the master of horror to shine. Yet he's become equally famous for several works of non-horror.
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Oct 17, 2025
Caroline Palmer's novel, "Workhorse," emphasizes striving and grit in a debut set at a moment when glossy magazines were losing their cachet.
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Oct 17, 2025
James Van Der Zee's baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.
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Oct 17, 2025
Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways.
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