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Jul 08, 2026
A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices.The creators know criticism is coming.
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Jul 08, 2026
William T. Vollmann's fascinating, wildly ambitious text interweaves a family saga with a history of the American war machine since Vietnam.
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Jul 07, 2026
Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.
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Jul 07, 2026
A new book by the historian Mason B. Williams chronicles the dubious effects of school, housing and police reforms by local politicians on the right.
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Jul 07, 2026
Rachel Aviv's essay collection, "You Won't Get Free of It," shows the breadth and complexity of matrilineal relationships.
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Jul 06, 2026
Three authors chronicle the history of the World Cup and of U.S. men's soccer.
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Jul 06, 2026
Miguel Salazar of the New York Times Books Review recommends three titles that can help you understand the history of the World Cup.
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Jul 06, 2026
"The Coast of Everything," by Guillermo Stitch, is structured like a nesting doll, with one story hidden within another.
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Jul 06, 2026
Irvine Welsh brings back his beloved Edinburgh ensemble for his new novel, "Men in Love."
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Jul 06, 2026
"The Simp," by Roshan Sethi, is a satire of the unending demands, learned helplessness and stubborn racism of Hollywood elites.
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Jul 05, 2026
His 1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
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Jul 05, 2026
His 1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
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Jul 05, 2026
In "The Face," Fay Bound-Alberti examines our relationship to our most public features.
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Jul 05, 2026
In Daniel Mason's charming "Country People," a stuck father and his happier family are tempted, and changed, during a stint on a bucolic campus.
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Jul 04, 2026
In "American Trickster," Ru Marshall takes on the epic story of Carlos Castaneda.
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Jul 03, 2026
The film "Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World" works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.
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Jul 03, 2026
After creative differences led him to step away from the characters that made him famous decades ago, John Byrne calls "Elsewhen" his swan song. He's not going quietly.
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Jul 03, 2026
New works by Christy Mihaly, Carole Boston Weatherford, Howard W. Reeves and Derrick Barnes show that there is still much to celebrate, rebel against and amend.
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Jul 02, 2026
He excavated a treasure hoard of manuscripts by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others that were found in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J.
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Jul 02, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 02, 2026
The best-selling author Gillian McAllister recommends novels that blend escapist settings with pulse-pounding intrigue and bloody murder.
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Jul 01, 2026
A grass-roots campaign urged readers to buy copies of the Black feminist writer's 2002 book "Communion" before Vice President JD Vance's book of the same name hit shelves.
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Jul 01, 2026
A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an "oldigarchy," in which wealth and power are hoarded by the elderly.
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Jul 01, 2026
An introduction to a living genius of children's literature for the adults who will inevitably read her on repeat.
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Jul 01, 2026
Now that Sandra Boynton's books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, "Hippos Go Berserk!," is approaching 50 — they deserve another look.
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Jun 30, 2026
"The Midnight Special" offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system.
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Jun 30, 2026
In Paul Tremblay's new A.I. dystopia, "Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep," an experimental technology gives its heroine control over somebody else's body.
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Jun 29, 2026
Novels by Colson Whitehead and Daniel Mason, the final "Heartstopper" graphic novel, gripping thrillers, lush romantasy, true crime and more.
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Jun 29, 2026
Until recently, the language of morality belonged to social conservatives. But the history of liberalism suggests that values have been at its core all along.
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Jun 28, 2026
Their names may not be familiar, but they helped define queer art, activism and storytelling as we know it today.
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Jun 28, 2026
Sarah Weinman on "Heather," by Caitlin Mullen, and three more new books.
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Jun 28, 2026
In her biography of the novelist George Sand, Fiona Sampson urges us to see Sand chiefly as a writer, an inventor of stories and also of the self.
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Jun 27, 2026
On "Tony Brown's Journal," he interviewed guests like Jesse Jackson and Lena Horne, and made programming decisions by asking himself, "Will it help Black people?"
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Jun 27, 2026
Our columnist on new books by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Felicia Grossman and Tessa Bickers.
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Jun 27, 2026
A new book examines the desperate lives of Nigeria's romance scam artists — and their victims.
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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
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 12, 2026
In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.
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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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