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Jun 15, 2025
Catherine Lacey's "The Möbius Book" is both an elliptical novella and a seething memoir. Decoding the connections is at once frustrating and exhilarating.
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Jun 14, 2025
A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.
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Jun 14, 2025
That is, until war breaks out. "Endling," by Maria Reva, is an ambitious whirlwind of a novel, set in Ukraine on the brink of disaster.
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Jun 14, 2025
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.
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Jun 14, 2025
John Birdsall's "What Is Queer Food?" and Erik Piepenburg's "Dining Out" both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.
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Jun 14, 2025
John Birdsall's "What Is Queer Food?" and Erik Piepenburg's "Dining Out" both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.
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Jun 13, 2025
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded, and deceived, SS officer.
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Jun 13, 2025
"Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President" includes reflections on being asked to testify about her sex life, as well as the thrill of winning two lawsuits.
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Jun 13, 2025
The culture critic Brian Raftery, who wrote about "Jaws" for the Book Review last year, discusses the movie's anniversary with Gilbert Cruz.
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Jun 13, 2025
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.
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Jun 13, 2025
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.
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Jun 13, 2025
Two children's novels take a gimlet-eyed look at the price of gifts with "no strings attached."
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Jun 12, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 12, 2025
Archival photographs, fashion layouts and anecdotes from celebrity clients: A new book is devoted to all things Valentino.
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Jun 12, 2025
Now attached to Bard College, the literary journal is about to publish new commentary and a popular historical feature. Next year: the print magazine.
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Jun 12, 2025
Plus: a cliff-top hotel in Brittany, dynamic sculptures at New York's Japan Society and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Jun 12, 2025
In "Submersed," Matthew Gavin Frank takes on the undersea universe of amateur submarine enthusiasts — and one obsession turned deadly.
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Jun 12, 2025
His go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires "Brothers and Keepers" and "The New Jim Crow" on incarceration. "The River Is Waiting" is his new novel.
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Jun 12, 2025
Looking for a swoony, feel-good read? Our romance columnist will be updating this list all year.
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Jun 11, 2025
Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.
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Jun 11, 2025
Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him carried it forward.
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Jun 10, 2025
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.
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Jun 10, 2025
In a scrappy new memoir, Jeff Weiss blurs fact and fancy as he recounts his stint as a bit player in the celebrity-industrial complex.
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Jun 10, 2025
In V.E. Schwab's "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil," three women turned into vampires are thrown into a centuries-long drama of love, power and hunger.
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Jun 10, 2025
In S.A. Cosby's new book, "King of Ashes," a wealthy investment manager must return to his crumbling hometown and protect his family from a bloodthirsty gang.
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Jun 10, 2025
In today's overtouristed world, should a professional traveler broadcast his discoveries or hide them away?
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Jun 09, 2025
He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.
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Jun 09, 2025
He wrote best-sellers like "The Day of the Jackal" and "The Dogs of War," often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.
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Jun 09, 2025
Thomas Mallon looks back on the AIDS crisis, the heyday of magazines and an exhilarating city in "The Very Heart of It."
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Jun 09, 2025
A collection of Quino's translated works will provide new audiences a taste of the satirical comic compared to "Charlie Brown with socialism."
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Jun 09, 2025
Looking for a Father's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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Jun 08, 2025
Twenty years after "A Million Little Pieces" became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.
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Jun 08, 2025
In "Charlottesville: An American Story," Deborah Baker retraces the events leading up to the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 and its political aftermath.
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Jun 08, 2025
She's the author of "Say You'll Remember Me" and six other romance novels. She owns three bakeries. She's also really tired.
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Jun 08, 2025
"Murderland," by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region's industrial pollution and its most infamous murderers.
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Jun 07, 2025
A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston's most popular businessman put his mark on the American Revolution.
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Jun 07, 2025
In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.
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Jun 07, 2025
In Jess Walter's new novel, "So Far Gone," a retired environmentalist turned recluse comes out of isolation to find his grandchildren.
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Jun 07, 2025
Drawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales.
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Jun 06, 2025
He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland's most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a "literary phenomenon."
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Jun 06, 2025
In "King of Ashes," the novelist again returns to rural Virginia as a setting, with a hero who has to face the family he once fled.
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Jun 06, 2025
In "The Haves and Have-Yachts," the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.
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Jun 06, 2025
In "The Once and Future World Order," by Amitav Acharya, and "The Golden Road," by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.
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Jun 06, 2025
Our columnist on the month's most notable releases.
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Jun 06, 2025
In the novel "Peachaloo in Bloom," the selfishness belongs to one man. In the picture book "The Wanting Monster," it belongs to us all.
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Jun 05, 2025
As an author (often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction), a film director, a lyricist and a host of TV and radio shows, he sought to capture his epoch.
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Jun 05, 2025
The list includes "Heartwood," "Other Worlds," "The Wall" and "The Fact Checker." Her own new novel is "Flashlight."
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Jun 05, 2025
In Austin Taylor's novel "Notes on Infinity," the speed of success prevents undergraduate founders from reflecting on, let alone fixing, an original sin.
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Jun 05, 2025
In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip.
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Jun 04, 2025
He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.
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Jun 04, 2025
A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.
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Jun 04, 2025
Our columnist on the twisty, suspense-laden books that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Jun 04, 2025
"Is a River Alive?," the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental.
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Jun 04, 2025
In "When It All Burns," Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist's eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire.
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Jun 04, 2025
In "Deep House," Jeremy Atherton Lin uses the story of his own life as a catalyst for a kaleidoscopic survey of legal flash points regarding gay rights and immigration.
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Jun 04, 2025
Our columnist on the twisty, suspense-laden books that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Jun 03, 2025
A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.
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Jun 03, 2025
The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.
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Jun 03, 2025
In "I'll Tell You When I'm Home," the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family's multiple displacements across generations.
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Jun 03, 2025
"The Listeners" follows a resort manager forced to shelter Axis diplomats, who threaten to disturb the magical springs that make the property a success.
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Jun 03, 2025
In "The Catch," struggling twin sisters are forced to rethink their lives after the reappearance of their mother, presumed dead for decades.
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Jun 03, 2025
An expansive new biography of William F. Buckley Jr. traces the eventful life of the conservative activist who intuitively grasped the media's centrality to politics.
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Jun 03, 2025
The author of "The LGBTQ Travel Guide" on the reasons the travel publishing giant chose a coffee-table book and how she picked the people and places to feature.
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Jun 03, 2025
A new memoir by her closest friend sheds light on the woman behind the image.
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Jun 02, 2025
Once called "our present-day Homer" for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1999.
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Jun 02, 2025
He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.
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Jun 02, 2025
She left home at 14, put herself through law school and raised three children before telling jokes to strangers — so what's a little vampire facial?
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Jun 02, 2025
A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.
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Jun 02, 2025
"Flashlight," by Susan Choi, spans several decades and nations to tell a story of exile in its multiple forms.
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Jun 02, 2025
A new biography of the Republican legislator details his legal mind and his personal struggles.
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Jun 02, 2025
For "People's Choice Literature," Tom Comitta wrote two books based on the likes and dislikes of American readers.
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Jun 01, 2025
In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor's career to explore, and complicate, the "crisis of masculinity."
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Jun 01, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Jun 01, 2025
These comic books and graphic novels include a couple of biographical tales: one about coming out as gay, the other about transitioning.
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Jun 01, 2025
Kevin Sack chronicles the Charleston, S.C., congregation that was the target of a brutal 2015 hate crime, and the church's central role in the larger saga of the South.
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Jun 01, 2025
The author of "The House in the Cerulean Sea" recommends captivating books that cast L.G.B.T.Q. people as the heroes, the villains and everything in between.
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May 31, 2025
In seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, she explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid and the ways women negotiate sexual desire.
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May 31, 2025
His long run with that venerable character was the highlight of a career that also encompassed Spider-Man, Aquaman and best-selling "Star Trek" novels.
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May 31, 2025
The Ritz Carlton; a decidedly unwhimsical Turkish inn.
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May 31, 2025
Molly Jong-Fast's unsparing account of her famous mother's decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables.
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May 31, 2025
In "Culture Creep," Alice Bolin considers the connections between corporate thought control, femininity, pop culture and the computer age.
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May 31, 2025
Bruce Handy's history of teen movies ranges from Andy Hardy and James Dean to "Beach Blanket Bingo," John Hughes, John Singleton and Katniss Everdeen.
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May 31, 2025
Anelise Chen's genre-bending book "Clam Down" sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo.
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May 31, 2025
In the memoir "How to Lose Your Mother," Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong.
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May 31, 2025
In "The Gunfighters," the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.
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May 30, 2025
Yael van der Wouden's novel, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, is the topic of this month's discussion.
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May 30, 2025
In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf's classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923.
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May 30, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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May 30, 2025
Our columnist reviews this month's new horror novels.
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May 30, 2025
In "The Spinach King," John Seabrook recounts how his grandfather turned a family farm into an industrial behemoth, and exposes the greed and malfeasance behind the prosperous facade.
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May 30, 2025
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives?
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May 30, 2025
Riding a wave of growing enthusiasm for reading, many bookstores and libraries have expanded their programming to let grown-ups in on the literary fun.
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May 30, 2025
A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation.
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May 29, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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May 29, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 29, 2025
She left home at 14, India at 17, put herself through law school, raised three children and then achieved comedy stardom. What's a little vampire facial?
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May 29, 2025
"Plenty of people have heard of Sophie Irwin but many, many more people should," says the author of "Daisy Jones & the Six" and, now, "Atmosphere."
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May 29, 2025
The best-selling author of "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and "Daisy Jones and the Six" takes to the skies for her latest novel.
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May 28, 2025
Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.
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May 28, 2025
In "Wild Thing," Sue Prideaux draws on recently discovered source material, delivering an enthralling account of an artist whose life was as inventive as his art.
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