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Jan 21, 2026
A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).
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Jan 21, 2026
Our columnist read "The Everlasting" too late to put it on her Best of 2025 list. She's sorry!
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Jan 21, 2026
Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today.
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Jan 21, 2026
Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.
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Jan 20, 2026
Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley.
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Jan 20, 2026
In "Two Women Living Together," the authors reflect on the joys of platonic cohabitation.
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Jan 20, 2026
Two new books return to the '80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism.
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Jan 20, 2026
In "The Flower Bearers," Rachel Eliza Griffiths addresses her starry, tragedy-marred marriage but also a life steeped in art, poetry and deep friendships.
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Jan 20, 2026
In Emanuela Anechoum's novel, "Tangerinn," an Italian Moroccan woman examines her family's legacy of immigration, and tries to find a place in the world.
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Jan 20, 2026
"Eating Ashes," by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.
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Jan 20, 2026
In her debut, Angela Tomaski puts a quirky spin on Gothic storytelling.
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Jan 19, 2026
Julian Barnes writes about illness and love in "Departure(s)," which he claims is his last novel.
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Jan 18, 2026
In "Nothing Random," her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name.
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Jan 18, 2026
Jennette McCurdy follows "I'm Glad My Mom Died" with "Half His Age," a debut novel that confirms her gift as a chronicler of disaffected girlhood.
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Jan 18, 2026
The author of the memoir "I'm Glad My Mom Died" hopes her debut novel, about a teen's sexual relationship with her teacher, will make readers uncomfortable.
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Jan 17, 2026
Gabriel Tallent's new book, "Crux," is a rowdy and poignant novel about two high school seniors trying to transcend the hard circumstances of their lives.
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Jan 17, 2026
In her new book, Jeanette Winterson attempts to frame modern-day issues within a classic storytelling text.
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Jan 16, 2026
Three Book Review editors on what titles they're most excited about this winter.
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Jan 16, 2026
Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.
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Jan 16, 2026
The author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.
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Jan 16, 2026
In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs.
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Jan 15, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 15, 2026
How a simple catchphrase sums up the president's theory of executive power.
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Jan 15, 2026
Jung Chang's 1991 memoir, "Wild Swans," sold millions. Its follow-up delves further into a complex personal and political history.
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Jan 15, 2026
"It's my comfort book," she says of the comic novel about a busted marriage. Her own new thriller is a sequel to "The Last Thing He Told Me."
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Jan 14, 2026
In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
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Jan 14, 2026
"Call Me Ishmaelle," by Xiaolu Guo, audaciously revises Herman Melville's American classic.
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Jan 14, 2026
A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.
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Jan 13, 2026
Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.
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Jan 13, 2026
A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash's satirical novel, "Lost Lambs."
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Jan 13, 2026
The fourth novel in his Morning Star series follows an ambitious young photographer in 1985 London.
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Jan 13, 2026
In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here's where to start.
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Jan 13, 2026
"Miracle Children" details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.
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Jan 12, 2026
In "Catapult," an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.
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Jan 12, 2026
In "The Revolutionists," the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the Middle East.
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Jan 11, 2026
He saw the origins of modern America in the years between 1815 and 1848, when revolutions in technology and media transformed a nation of isolated farms.
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Jan 11, 2026
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is accusing a private hospital in Lagos of administering an overdose of a sedative, prompting an outpouring of complaints by Nigerians about their health care system.
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Jan 11, 2026
His 1968 book, "Chariots of the Gods," sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a "warped parody of reasoning."
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Jan 11, 2026
Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
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Jan 11, 2026
Sara Levine's "The Hitch" is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.
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Jan 11, 2026
Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
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Jan 11, 2026
Belle Burden shook off her natural reserve to turn her viral divorce essay into "Strangers," a bracing memoir.
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Jan 10, 2026
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
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Jan 10, 2026
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
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Jan 10, 2026
The author and the actors Emily Bader and Tom Blyth explain why the movie differs from the novel and raise the possibility of spinoffs.
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Jan 10, 2026
In "The Cradle of Citizenship," the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they're learning anything at all.
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Jan 10, 2026
"The Old Fire," an atmospheric new novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.
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Jan 09, 2026
The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.
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Jan 09, 2026
"Common Sense," published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the radical founder's strange and winding story.
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Jan 09, 2026
When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.
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Jan 09, 2026
Evans's epistolary tale, about a retired lawyer who spends her days writing to a series of pen pals, became one of last year's sleeper hits.
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Jan 09, 2026
In a trilogy of novellas, a writer explores lives haunted by colonialism and slavery.
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Jan 09, 2026
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago this week, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of his strange and winding story.
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Jan 09, 2026
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books to read before their film adaptation releases this year.
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Jan 09, 2026
Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated "concept" books have never had a more potentially receptive audience.
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Jan 09, 2026
In "Sheer," the novelist Vanessa Lawrence imagines the improbable rise and inglorious fall of a self-made Gen X beauty mogul.
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Jan 09, 2026
Swoony reads will transport you from the doldrums of winter to a Caribbean resort, a Hamptons beach, the streets of Paris and more.
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Jan 08, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 08, 2026
Starring in the 1992 film adaptation helped launch an eclectic career. "Ongoing" is the book that accompanies a retrospective on her work.
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Jan 08, 2026
"I'm writing for the kid I used to be," says Dav Pilkey, who defied expectations to create three blockbuster graphic-novel series.
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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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