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Aug 07, 2026
These recommendations should tide over fans of Jeff Kinney's laugh-out-loud illustrated novels until the next installment.
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Aug 06, 2026
In his groundbreaking "La Technique," Jacques Pépin showed Americans how to do everything from carving swans out of apples to breaking down lamb.
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Aug 06, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 06, 2026
A new animated special, "The Day You Begin," based on the best-selling picture book, emphasizes the richness that diversity brings to a community.
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Aug 06, 2026
The director of slasher films that defined horror from the 1970s through the '90s realizes his latest work, "Cathedral," as both a graphic novel and a hard-rock album.
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Aug 06, 2026
His 2023 thriller "The Only One Left" has been on the best-seller list there for nearly a year. "The Unknown," his 10th novel, is out this month.
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Aug 06, 2026
Our critic on four terrific new releases.
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Aug 05, 2026
Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.
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Aug 05, 2026
"Stones From the River," her best-known work and an early Oprah's Book Club selection, was set in a fictional German town in the early 20th century.
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Aug 04, 2026
Kimon de Greef's "The Ego Trip" is an enthralling, galling journey into the deeply weird underbelly of the psychedelic renaissance.
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Aug 04, 2026
Claudia Rankine's latest autobiographical work, "Triage," asks how best to effect change in the world.
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Aug 04, 2026
In "Don't Be Evil," Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
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Aug 04, 2026
The Italian best seller "All That Is Left of Life" is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980.
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Aug 03, 2026
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig's head outside his parents' door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he's been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
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Aug 03, 2026
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig's head outside his parents' door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he's been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
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Aug 03, 2026
Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.
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Aug 03, 2026
Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. "Voices From the Kitchen" highlights workers who get far less attention.
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Aug 03, 2026
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose "A People's History of the United States" has sold millions of copies.
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Aug 03, 2026
In Fiona Mozley's novel "Awake Awake," a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas.
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Aug 02, 2026
Millions look to Nicole LePera for advice on how to achieve contentment and maintain healthy relationships. But her own story is complicated.
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Aug 02, 2026
In "The Story of Your Life," Kathryn Jezer-Morton explores, without castigating, the wish to present a curated version of experience via social media.
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Aug 02, 2026
Paul Yoon's deeply moving novel "Etna" explores the aftermath of war with an unconventional narrator.
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Aug 02, 2026
Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.
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Aug 01, 2026
"Plant Lady," by the Korean novelist Minyoung Kang, imagines an urban haven for women who need an escape from dangerous men.
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Aug 01, 2026
In Riley Sager's "The Unknown," actresses on a research trip stumble into a paranormal mystery.
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Jul 31, 2026
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and '60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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Jul 31, 2026
Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.
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Jul 31, 2026
Douglas Stuart's latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
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Jul 31, 2026
Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer's Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.
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Jul 31, 2026
In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Patrick Radden Keefe's dazzling investigation into the death of a British teenager.
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Jul 31, 2026
Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.
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Jul 31, 2026
How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder's less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.
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Jul 31, 2026
In "The Savage Landscape," the nature writer Cal Flyn argues that wilderness is just one more man-made invention.
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Jul 30, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 30, 2026
"We live in the world we inherited from them," the author Dylan Gottlieb says.
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Jul 30, 2026
Our columnist on "The Amateur," by Chris Bohjalian, and two other books.
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Jul 30, 2026
As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin's prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Jul 30, 2026
After finishing his latest book, Karan Mahajan couldn't decide which opening passage was best. Please vote below for the one you prefer.
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Jul 30, 2026
The best-selling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray recommend gripping books that illuminate hidden chapters of the city's past.
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Jul 29, 2026
Beth Brower has been self-publishing for a decade. But her series drawn from the cheeky "journals" of a young woman in Victorian England has been a breakout.
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Jul 28, 2026
Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.
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Jul 28, 2026
Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.
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Jul 28, 2026
"All That's Unseen," by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.
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Jul 28, 2026
A new book by the historian Micki McElya considers how the politics of beauty both shaped and divided the women's movement.
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Jul 27, 2026
In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.
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Jul 27, 2026
Colson Whitehead's Harlem trilogy turns away from the pessimism of his recent novels to offer a more hopeful vision for Black history.
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Jul 27, 2026
A travel journal can be a great way to evoke specific details and memories from a trip. Here are some tips on how to lower the barrier to entry and to stay organized.
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Jul 26, 2026
Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach's novel comes out in paperback this week. It's a book she didn't want to write.
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Jul 26, 2026
The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.
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Jul 26, 2026
Sarai Walker's "Furious Violet" is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.
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Jul 25, 2026
An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.
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Jul 25, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Jul 25, 2026
In "The Renoir Girls," the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d'Anvers family.
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Jul 24, 2026
There's nothing like hearing a famous person's life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.
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Jul 24, 2026
A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.
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Jul 24, 2026
A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.
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Jul 24, 2026
It's time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can't stop thinking about.
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Jul 24, 2026
The picture books "Bored" and "Endless Afternoons" are odes to the joy of having nothing to do.
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Jul 23, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 23, 2026
Pliny's "Natural History" is meant for "skimming and skipping," she says. Her own new (one-volume) road-trip novel is "Beginning Middle End."
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Jul 23, 2026
There's nothing like hearing a famous person's life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.
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Jul 22, 2026
Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, who met when their fathers were in Congress, make a case for bipartisanship in a picture book about dogs working together.
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Jul 22, 2026
The message in "The Surrendered Wife," the best-selling book by Laura Doyle, was provocative. Many women credit it with saving their marriages.
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Jul 22, 2026
In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a "shadow tradition" of anti-egalitarians who fought against America's founding ideals.
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Jul 22, 2026
The best-selling author Laura Doyle believes women can be too controlling. Many women — of all types — credit her with saving their marriages.
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Jul 22, 2026
Matthew Quick's memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.
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Jul 22, 2026
Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.
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Jul 21, 2026
Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, "Unsayable" feels destined for the graduation gift bag.
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Jul 21, 2026
In "The Frenchmen," Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.
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Jul 21, 2026
For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer's epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.
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Jul 21, 2026
In "The Mortons," a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.
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Jul 21, 2026
A new compendium of Roberta Gregory's comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.
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Jul 20, 2026
The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.
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Jul 20, 2026
The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.
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Jul 20, 2026
The market for Homer's epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.
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Jul 20, 2026
In "The Lost Founder," the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.
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Jul 19, 2026
Caitlin Mullen drew on eerie expeditions to the Pine Barrens for her new mystery novel, "Heather."
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Jul 18, 2026
A psychologist, he wrote during the AIDS crisis about survivor's guilt and depression in his H.I.V.-negative patients.
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Jul 18, 2026
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic poem has monster battles, a sorceress and dozens of thirsty suitors. Here's a primer.
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Jul 18, 2026
In Claire Vaye Watkins's novel "Yellow Pine," a single woman having an existential crisis decides now is the time to have a child.
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Jul 17, 2026
Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.
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Jul 17, 2026
Gary Stewart spent a few years on top, but was largely forgotten after his tragic death in 2003. Now a new generation is rediscovering the onetime "king of honky-tonk."
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Jul 17, 2026
The Netflix series and its feature-length finale are based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman. Here's a reminder of the events of the characters and where their stories left of.
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Jul 17, 2026
A new collection of the famous graphic designer Seymour Chwast's work for children "unearths a cache of lost treasures."
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Jul 17, 2026
Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.
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Jul 16, 2026
Our columnist on three of the year's most anticipated books.
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Jul 16, 2026
For comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.
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Jul 16, 2026
Our columnist on three of the year's most anticipated books.
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Jul 16, 2026
Jem Calder's novel, "I Want You to Be Happy," follows the flailing situationship between two aspiring writers with a 12-year age gap.
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Jul 16, 2026
In "Journey to Nowhere," Shiva Naipaul reports on the aftermath of a cult's disastrous turn away from idealism.
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Jul 15, 2026
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer's protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
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Jul 15, 2026
A new book by the journalist Lauren Collins chronicles the ongoing effects of the violent takeover of Wilmington, N.C., on those living in its aftermath.
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Jul 15, 2026
In "Air," by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht, a decorator's unusual commission leads abruptly into another universe.
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Jul 14, 2026
"Cloudthief," by Nathaniel Rich, follows a dispirited writer into a scheme to get rich and find romance along the way.
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Jul 14, 2026
Julie Buntin's novel "Famous Men" complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent.
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Jul 14, 2026
Sure, "Catcher in the Rye" has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels.
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Jul 14, 2026
A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder's campaign to promote conservative Christian values.
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Jul 13, 2026
Her best-known work, "Women Without Men," was longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year.
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Jul 13, 2026
Her first collection of short fiction, "It Will Come Back to You," is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.
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Jul 13, 2026
The best-selling author Rachel Lynn Solomon recommends forbidden love stories full of fiery desire, shifting power dynamics and so-wrong-it's-right drama.
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