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Oct 02, 2025
"Shadow Ticket" follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.
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Oct 02, 2025
Based on a memoir by Alysia Abbott, the movie chronicles gay liberation and the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a gay man's daughter.
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Oct 02, 2025
The Lemonheads frontman's life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band's first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.
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Oct 02, 2025
In "Goliath's Curse," Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.
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Oct 02, 2025
Marvel's White Tiger, frog sorcery, Indigenous tales and more are in "¡Wepa!," coming to New York Public Library, spotlighting work by or about the island.
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Oct 02, 2025
Why? Curiosity, "general impatience and all-around quirkiness." Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.
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Oct 01, 2025
The lawsuit was an effort to keep ‘And Tango Makes Three,' about two male penguins raising a chick, in a county's school libraries.
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Oct 01, 2025
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.
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Oct 01, 2025
An exuberant new biography by Jeff Chang charts the action star's life and legacy as a breakout Asian American celebrity who paved the way for others.
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Oct 01, 2025
The celebrated author of "Gravity's Rainbow" may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun.
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Oct 01, 2025
The celebrated author of "Gravity's Rainbow" may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun.
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Oct 01, 2025
The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.
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Oct 01, 2025
The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.
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Oct 01, 2025
Here are some of our staff's favorites, for ages 2 to 4.
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Sep 30, 2025
His many novels, including the prizewinning "The Butcher's Boy" and the Jane Whitefield series, can have readers rooting for both protagonist and antagonist.
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Sep 30, 2025
In "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult," the star restaurateur Drew Nieporent evokes a glittering age in Manhattan hospitality.
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Sep 30, 2025
Whether you're Team Edward, Team Jacob or just Team Fun Book, these novels offer a similar blend of romance, fantasy and horror.
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Sep 30, 2025
In "Gotham at War," Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big Apple.
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Sep 30, 2025
Lily King's new novel, "Heart the Lover," is a profoundly affecting story of romantic entanglement by a master of the genre.
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Sep 29, 2025
An English translation of Ada Boni's "The Talisman of Happiness," an indispensable guide for Italian home cooks since the 1920s, is finally on its way.
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Sep 29, 2025
New novels by Thomas Pynchon and Brandon Taylor; memoirs by Susan Orlean, Malala Yousafzai and Tim Curry; the conclusion of an epic fantasy series by Philip Pullman; and more.
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Sep 29, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new releases.
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Sep 28, 2025
A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" creator Muriel Spark.
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Sep 28, 2025
His songs have inspired fans for five decades. Now the indefatigable musician delivers the whole story in a 463-page memoir.
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Sep 27, 2025
Our columnist on four noteworthy novels.
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Sep 27, 2025
Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.
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Sep 27, 2025
Based on his popular Substack, the iconoclastic author's new book is a warning against the dangers of turning innovation into a secular faith.
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Sep 27, 2025
"Picket Line," which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time.
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Sep 26, 2025
A powerhouse Washington lawyer, he negotiated blockbuster contracts for A-list clients, including the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bushes, while often acting as their consigliere.
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Sep 26, 2025
Jane Austen's classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen's birth.
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Sep 26, 2025
In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones's latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire.
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Sep 26, 2025
The Broadway play "Punch" retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.
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Sep 26, 2025
In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz's novel "The Winter of the Dollhouse," the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.
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Sep 25, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 25, 2025
She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel "Rattlebone," six years later.
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Sep 25, 2025
The novelist, who wrote about World War II in "Atonement" and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd century in his new book, "What We Can Know."
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Sep 25, 2025
The best-selling author Brynne Weaver recommends novels that dial up the emotional drama for high-stakes payoffs.
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Sep 25, 2025
Then: His favorite writer. Now: "So earnest, so didactic, so humorless." His own new novel is "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)."
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Sep 24, 2025
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China's "Paris of the East," where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
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Sep 24, 2025
Raised Buddhist in Texas, Amie Barrodale came to embrace the teachings. Years of practice inform her odd, and oddly funny, debut novel, "Trip."
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Sep 24, 2025
Dan Chaon's latest novel, "One of Us," dances around a great showman, a demented "uncle" and a cast of fascinating misfits.
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Sep 24, 2025
In "We Love You, Bunny," the novelist Mona Awad revisits the gleefully vicious campus satire of her 2019 hit, "Bunny." We're all ears.
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Sep 23, 2025
The nominees for the prestigious award also include novels by David Szalay, Benjamin Markovits and Andrew Miller.
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Sep 23, 2025
Ilana Masad's new novel, "Beings," weaves together three separate story lines to explore how we process and narrate our lives.
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Sep 23, 2025
In his first book, John J. Lennon, who is serving a 28-year sentence, brings nuance and complexity to his own and other prisoners' stories.
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Sep 23, 2025
In Emmelie Prophète's "Cécé," a young woman is determined to survive the slums — first by doing sex work, then by posting her gruesome reality for the world to see.
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Sep 22, 2025
"What We Can Know" follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.
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Sep 22, 2025
In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life.
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Sep 21, 2025
The tricky romantic drama in H.S. Cross's new novel, "Amanda," aims for both historical sweep and high erotic tension.
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Sep 21, 2025
In "What's With Baum?," an anxious, jealous and thrice-married writer finds himself stranded in a culture that wants more "schmaltz," less "wisdom."
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Sep 21, 2025
An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states.
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Sep 21, 2025
In the new memoir "Awake," the evangelical star Jen Hatmaker explores how the implosion of her 26-year marriage helped lead to a spiritual reckoning.
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Sep 20, 2025
At The Times and elsewhere, she combined recipe writing with reporting on topics like consumer protection and food safety. Her torte was a longtime fan favorite.
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Sep 20, 2025
At The Times and elsewhere, she combined recipe writing with reporting on topics like consumer protection and food safety. Her torte was a longtime fan favorite.
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Sep 20, 2025
The actor and producer booked her first big role when she was 14 years old. More than 30 years later, she's an entertainment-industry powerhouse.
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Sep 20, 2025
The actor and producer booked her first big role when she was 14 years old. More than 30 years later, she's an entertainment-industry powerhouse.
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Sep 20, 2025
In "The Waterbearers," Sasha Bonét weaves her matrilineal history into a larger struggle for survival and self-knowledge.
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Sep 20, 2025
In "McNamara at War," the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military.
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Sep 19, 2025
A college player and coach who became a best-selling author of books about the game, he was also a kindred spirit to the Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson.
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Sep 19, 2025
The popular science author, whose latest is "Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy," discusses her approach to the stranger corners of scientific inquiry.
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Sep 19, 2025
A college player and coach who became a best-selling author, he was also a kindred spirit to the Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson.
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Sep 19, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you've saved most to your reading lists.
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Sep 19, 2025
The Grand Regency Costumed Promenade in Bath, England, is the showiest and merriest of the celebrations of the writer's 250th.
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Sep 19, 2025
A debut novel is the latest in an unbroken string of hits written — and promoted — by the network's stars. Is that a raw deal for other conservative imprints?
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Sep 19, 2025
Our critic finds some of the author's sense and sensibility in this month's best selections.
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Sep 19, 2025
Twelve recommendations for fans of the Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club series.
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Sep 18, 2025
The new memoir by the former vice president defends her campaign and allows others to criticize Joe Biden and his team for her failure to win.
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Sep 18, 2025
In her book, coming out next week, she revisited her breakneck campaign, explaining her choices and outlining missteps — of hers and others. She hinted at a return to politics.
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Sep 18, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 18, 2025
In a frank memoir, Drew Nieporent looks back at a half-century career that's produced signature New York restaurants like Montrachet and Tribeca Grill.
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Sep 18, 2025
A young creative at a Madrid ad agency does her best to do the least in Beatriz Serrano's darkly comic debut novel, "Discontent."
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Sep 18, 2025
The debate about ChatGPT's use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.
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Sep 18, 2025
A hands-free "pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something," would help. Her new novel is "Will There Ever Be Another You."
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Sep 18, 2025
The debate about ChatGPT's use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.
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Sep 18, 2025
At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here's how we checked it off.
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Sep 17, 2025
On the streets of Lower Manhattan, the famed record producer looks for signs of those sweaty 1990s nights.
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Sep 17, 2025
On the streets of Lower Manhattan, the famed record producer looks for signs of those sweaty 1990s nights.
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Sep 17, 2025
In "What Happened to Millennials," Charlie Wells celebrates his anxious, unhappy, successful, pop-culture-obsessed, middle-aged, cringey cohort.
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Sep 17, 2025
In "All Consuming," the TV baking star turned food philosopher Ruby Tandoh munches on our decadent, crispy, sticky, turmeric-dusted, thirst-trap recipe economy.
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Sep 17, 2025
Sports and sex make for a knockout pairing in romance novels. Here's where to start.
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Sep 17, 2025
In a new memoir, the former Democratic senator from West Virginia defends his centrist politics, portraying himself as a high-minded public servant with unshakable convictions.
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Sep 16, 2025
The drama, which has had two runs in Britain, won London's Olivier Award for best new play earlier this year.
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Sep 16, 2025
In a frank memoir, Drew Nieporent looks back at a half-century career that's produced signature New York restaurants like Montrachet and Tribeca Grill.
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Sep 16, 2025
In her sweeping second novel, "The Wilderness," Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace.
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Sep 16, 2025
The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses.
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Sep 16, 2025
With echoes of "Never Let Me Go" and "The Goldfinch," Catherine Chidgey's devastating new novel watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shape.
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Sep 15, 2025
An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years.
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Sep 15, 2025
In "Will There Ever Be Another You," Patricia Lockwood recounts the pandemic's devastating effects on her life.
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Sep 15, 2025
The "mystical capital of Europe" serves as the backdrop for the author's latest novel, "The Secret of Secrets." Here are five spots that fire his imagination.
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Sep 15, 2025
In "Born Equal," Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.
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Sep 15, 2025
As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.
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Sep 14, 2025
Robert Munsch wrote "The Paper Bag Princess," "Love You Forever" and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
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Sep 14, 2025
In a new book, two longtime fashion editors — along with Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric — open up about times they got canned.
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Sep 14, 2025
Robert Munsch wrote "The Paper Bag Princess," "Love You Forever" and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
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Sep 14, 2025
Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.
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Sep 14, 2025
The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.
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Sep 14, 2025
In "We the People," the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
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Sep 13, 2025
The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn't. But he doesn't let it get him down.
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Sep 13, 2025
In Mason Coile's new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.
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Sep 13, 2025
The author "isn't shy about his opinions," as one director put it. But he gives filmmakers a wide berth and they have to decide what to put onscreen.
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