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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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Dec 15, 2025
As costs are rising and wallets are hurting, these books explore the promises and pitfalls of the U.S. economy.
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Dec 14, 2025
Her picture books found models of perseverance and imagination in figures like Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe and Benny Goodman.
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Dec 14, 2025
Crafting The New York Times Book Review's annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare consensus.
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Dec 14, 2025
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year.
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Dec 13, 2025
Here are the year's most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children's books editor.
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Dec 12, 2025
It's been a good one. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai discuss the books that have stayed with them.
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Dec 12, 2025
Her books, many of which were best sellers, often described empty marriages, love affairs (with tasteful sex) and heroic clergymen.
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Dec 12, 2025
Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.
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Dec 12, 2025
Here are the year's most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
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Dec 12, 2025
A candy-colored story collection, sisters who lust after Hitler and harrowing reportage from a riot in India.
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Dec 12, 2025
Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, "bonked me on the head this year."
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Dec 11, 2025
The staff of the Book Review recommends unforgettable books that made our personal best-of-the-year lists.
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Dec 11, 2025
One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In "Future Boy," he recalls juggling signature roles in "Back to the Future" and "Family Ties."
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Dec 11, 2025
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
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Dec 11, 2025
King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated and left for exile years ago. Now, his attempted comeback is giving his family a royal headache.
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Dec 10, 2025
After a quarter century, the Yaddo president Elaina Richardson will step down, having made her mark on the storied arts residency.
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Dec 10, 2025
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
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Dec 10, 2025
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
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Dec 09, 2025
In "Cape Fever," a young maid finds herself dealing with ghosts from the past and a manipulative employer.
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Dec 09, 2025
An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.
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Dec 09, 2025
In "The Sea Captain's Wife," Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the thrilling story of Mary Ann Patten, the first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.
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Dec 09, 2025
James Marshall's "George and Martha" books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.
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Dec 09, 2025
Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.
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Dec 08, 2025
The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.
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Dec 08, 2025
Our columnist picks the year's outstanding books.
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Dec 07, 2025
In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women's fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.
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Dec 07, 2025
This season's bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
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Dec 07, 2025
Lauren Rothery's "Television" finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.
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Dec 07, 2025
This season's bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
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Dec 07, 2025
"I have to be still for a certain amount of time," says the "Wicked" star and author of "Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much."
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Dec 06, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dec 06, 2025
The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author's latest novel, "The School of Night."
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Dec 06, 2025
What birders well know, fans of "composite organisms" and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.
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Dec 05, 2025
As told in Tarpley Hitt's rollicking "Barbieland," the rise of America's doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie.
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Dec 05, 2025
The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O'Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.
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