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Aug 27, 2025
In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana's visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
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Aug 27, 2025
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
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Aug 27, 2025
Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.
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Aug 26, 2025
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.
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Aug 26, 2025
The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail.
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Aug 26, 2025
Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.
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Aug 26, 2025
Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.
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Aug 26, 2025
"A Truce That Is Not Peace," the Canadian novelist's first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father's and sister's suicides, 10 years apart.
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Aug 26, 2025
Austyn Wohlers's novel, "Hothouse Bloom," sets a solitary woman's reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery.
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Aug 25, 2025
Relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died earlier this year, contend that the book underplays the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband.
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Aug 25, 2025
"Vulture," by Phoebe Greenwood, follows a journalist's downward spiral in Gaza.
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Aug 25, 2025
Tales of body-snatching aliens and apocalyptic super-flus by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and more double as time capsules of American fear.
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Aug 24, 2025
He discovered and nurtured Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger and many other authors. He had, Mr. Lewis said, "the storytelling equivalent of perfect pitch."
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Aug 24, 2025
Life on the red planet? "Bosh and nonsense," said one astronomer. But according to "The Martians," plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.
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Aug 24, 2025
A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.
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Aug 23, 2025
Interested in espionage fiction, but don't know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
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Aug 23, 2025
Interested in espionage fiction, but don't know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
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Aug 23, 2025
"It's like I woke up halfway through my life."
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Aug 23, 2025
A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.
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Aug 22, 2025
Charlotte McConaghy's novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.
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Aug 22, 2025
In his best-selling books, notably the "Natchez Burning" trilogy, he addressed what one reviewer called "the pervasive impact of past events."
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Aug 22, 2025
In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen's classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.
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Aug 22, 2025
With the country facing a "reading crisis," the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax.
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Aug 22, 2025
My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of "Little Women" that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn't learn much from the story.
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Aug 21, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 21, 2025
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.
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Aug 21, 2025
Starting with "That Smell" in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
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Aug 21, 2025
This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" are coming out; and an updated book is due.
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Aug 21, 2025
"Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters," says the prizewinning playwright behind "Stereophonic," which is now up in London.
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Aug 21, 2025
The best-selling horror and fantasy author recommends books about the terrors that lurk under the stairs.
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Aug 20, 2025
Our critic says Regina Black's "August Lane" is the best book she's read this year.
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Aug 20, 2025
"Born in Flames," by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.
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Aug 20, 2025
Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.
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Aug 19, 2025
Clean home, clean mind. Or at least you can try, with the help of several tomes about doing more with less.
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Aug 19, 2025
The musical "Operation Mincemeat" tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
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Aug 19, 2025
Kaila Yu's "Fetishized" is a candid and intimate memoir of the exoticized Asian body.
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Aug 19, 2025
In "Baldwin: A Love Story," Nicholas Boggs goes far beyond other scholars in tracing Baldwin's relationships and their role in his work.
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Aug 18, 2025
Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea.
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Aug 18, 2025
Our columnist on three notable new novels.
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Aug 18, 2025
Mark Doten's new book examines a contemporary American culture that routinely defies satire.
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Aug 17, 2025
The food writer Olia Hercules proves to be a great cook and a powerful family historian in "Strong Roots."
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Aug 17, 2025
"Dominion," by Addie E. Citchens, recounts the many sins of a prominent household in a Mississippi town.
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Aug 16, 2025
In a new memoir, the British poet Raymond Antrobus describes the ways deafness has profoundly shaped his world.
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Aug 16, 2025
Elliot Ackerman, a Marine veteran and prolific author, switched gears with "Sheepdogs," a caper story featuring down-on-their-luck ex-military buddies.
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Aug 15, 2025
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.
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Aug 15, 2025
"Black Moses," by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier.
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Aug 15, 2025
A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real.
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Aug 14, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 14, 2025
In "Rope," Tim Queeney makes a case for the humble material as the tie that binds human history.
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Aug 14, 2025
Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he's collaborated with David Levithan on the novel "Songs for Other People's Weddings."
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Aug 14, 2025
He was 40 years old, "so I decided to rewrite it and make it for adults." He's now the title character of "The Magician of Tiger Castle."
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Aug 14, 2025
The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
A visit to the turbulent coastline of County Donegal reveals a place where the Welsh poet found creative enrichment in the summer of 1935.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
Josephine Rowe's slim, atmospheric novel "Little World" connects disparate characters through the traveling corpse of a young girl.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history.
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Aug 12, 2025
Cleyvis Natera's novel "The Grand Paloma Resort" combines fast-paced suspense, class distinctions and colonial history in a breathless seven-day trip to the Dominican Republic.
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Aug 12, 2025
"The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," by Peter Orner, revives an unsolved mystery involving Chicagoland royalty.
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Aug 12, 2025
Jonathan Mahler's new book portrays the city's rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division.
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Aug 12, 2025
A new book by the veteran correspondent Jon Lee Anderson captures a long war's noble goals and crippling missteps.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
"Ruth," by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
If you're reeling after the final episode of Season 3 or looking for more sumptuous drama, these books will get you through to the next season.
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Aug 10, 2025
In her second essay collection, "Sloppy," the writer and social media personality Rax King embraces the mess of living imperfectly.
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Aug 10, 2025
In "Friends Until the End," James Grant explores the political passions and inspiring oratory of the British parliamentarians Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Aug 10, 2025
In C. Mallon's novel, a teenager's night out with friends dissolves into a collision of catastrophes.
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Aug 09, 2025
In Emily Adrian's "Seduction Theory," two married creative writing professors have parallel affairs, with very different outcomes.
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Aug 08, 2025
Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book "Nuclear War: A Scenario."
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Aug 08, 2025
"Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time" chronicles the champagne decadence and wicked wit of the New York society doyenne Mamie Fish.
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Aug 08, 2025
Tochi Eze's novel, "This Kind of Trouble," circles between 2000s Atlanta and 1900s Nigeria in a sweeping story of colonialism and its aftershocks.
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Aug 08, 2025
The novel "We Live Here Now" tracks the uncanny experiences of people connected to a mysterious installation artist.
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Aug 08, 2025
A new book by the journalist Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America's drug treatment system.
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Aug 08, 2025
Edward Lear, author of "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" and "A Book of Nonsense," felt such a kinship with parrots that he wished he could become one.
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Aug 07, 2025
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
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Aug 07, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 07, 2025
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with a brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
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Aug 07, 2025
"It's very liberating to take off that psychological corset," the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star Ava Gardner onstage.
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Aug 07, 2025
The authors of two savvy new books offer hope that there's more to being terminally online than sore thumbs and brain rot.
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Aug 07, 2025
"The Feeling of Iron," by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge.
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Aug 07, 2025
With "Tonight in Jungleland," Peter Ames Carlin looks deep inside the album that made Springsteen a rock star.
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Aug 07, 2025
This "huge" fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he "pretty much hated" "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris." His own new novel is "People Like Us."
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Aug 06, 2025
Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by Janet Ahlberg, including classics like "Each Peach Pear Plum."
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Aug 06, 2025
The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees "the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies," he says in a new memoir.
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Aug 06, 2025
In the scrumptious "Tart," the anonymous London haute-cuisine veteran Slutty Cheff tells all. Deliciously.
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Aug 06, 2025
Shobha Rao's new novel, "Indian Country," is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America.
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Aug 06, 2025
In 2018, the cast of a web series joked about an imaginary (and very saucy) book. Now, it's a real best seller. Just embrace the tusks.
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Aug 06, 2025
An Yu portrays a community trying to maintain daily routines amid dire, irreversible circumstances.
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Aug 06, 2025
Esther Freud returns to the autofictional world of her breakout novel, "Hideous Kinky," published more than 30 years ago.
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Aug 05, 2025
Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by his wife, Janet Ahlberg, including classics like "Each Peach Pear Plum."
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Aug 05, 2025
In "People Like Us," Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence.
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Aug 05, 2025
A new, career-spanning essay collection shows how she has never lost touch with the mischievous creativity of her 7-year-old self.
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Aug 05, 2025
Jon Raymond's new book considers lofty questions as an affair and a climate disaster unfold.
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Aug 05, 2025
Elliot Ackerman keeps a light tone in his new novel, "Sheepdogs," though a more somber back story sometimes peeks through.
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Aug 05, 2025
In Xenobe Purvis's novel, "The Hounding," the atmosphere of paranoia and bloodthirsty groupthink in 18th-century England might feel uncomfortably familiar.
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Aug 04, 2025
"The Afghans," by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, tells the country's turbulent recent history through the lives of three people.
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Aug 04, 2025
These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more.
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