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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
In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.
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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 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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Jun 07, 2026
His five-volume "Children of Crisis" series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.
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Jun 07, 2026
In this satisfyingly old-school novel, an artist tries to find his place, and hold onto his spark, in a world that values fads and flash.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
The short story, which is set during World War I, is believed to have been printed for the first time on Friday. The story is thought to have been written no earlier than July 1918.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
Deb Olin Unferth's new novel is part cosmic comedy and part dirge for our dying world.
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Jun 06, 2026
Summer's here. It's hot. Let these books deliver some chills.
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Jun 05, 2026
Some will have you mentally arranging flowers for your own happy day. Others provide the vicarious thrill of watching it all burn.
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Jun 05, 2026
From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.
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Jun 05, 2026
In "The Man Who Stole the Gods," Matthew Campbell recounts a shocking, decades-long crime and the search for its perpetrator.
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Jun 05, 2026
Following his "Less" books with "Villa Coco," Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.
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Jun 05, 2026
As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's classic fable is as apt as ever.
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Jun 04, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 04, 2026
He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author's most famous works.
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Jun 04, 2026
"Checkmate," Ben Mezrich's tale of chess scandal, may be ready for its close-up — but not for a close read.
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Jun 04, 2026
These books dig into the thrilling, ugly and swoon-worthy drama of a happy couple's big day.
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Jun 03, 2026
Caissie Levy was Broadway's first Elsa. She starred in "Hair" and "Ghost." And now, for "Ragtime," she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.
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Jun 03, 2026
As presented in Andrea Wulf's new biography, "The Traveler," George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.
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Jun 03, 2026
Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.
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Jun 03, 2026
The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.
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Jun 03, 2026
In "The Wreck of the Mentor," the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.
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Jun 03, 2026
The year is nearly halfway over. Here's what we've been listening to.
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Jun 02, 2026
The former first lady's new book reflects an insular White House where loyalty was prized and President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s feelings were prioritized over health concerns.
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Jun 02, 2026
Josh Weil's new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.
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Jun 02, 2026
In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.
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Jun 02, 2026
Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, "Land" is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland's long struggle against British rule.
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Jun 02, 2026
"The Fire Agent," by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.
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Jun 01, 2026
A collection of Harold Bloom's letters details the working life of one of America's most influential intellects.
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Jun 01, 2026
Historical chronicles and flights of fancy, all with L.G.B.T.Q. protagonists, arrive starting in June.
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Jun 01, 2026
Novels by Ann Patchett, Maggie O'Farrell and Dave Eggers; memoirs by Jill Biden and Laverne Cox; sci-fi adventures by a Pulitzer Prize winner; and more.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "1873," the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.
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Jun 01, 2026
Joana Avillez took six years to illustrate a new edition of Joseph Mitchell's "The Bottom of the Harbor," which captures the salty New York neighborhood of her youth.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "Whistler," a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of their lives.
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May 31, 2026
In "Rabbit, Fox, Tar," a white neighborhood's local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.
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May 31, 2026
Our critic on four terrific new mysteries.
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May 30, 2026
In Sonia Feldman's novel, "Girl's Girl," the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.
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May 30, 2026
In her book "Sublimation," Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.
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May 29, 2026
Lerner's new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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May 29, 2026
In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.
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May 29, 2026
Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband's successor, "View From the East Wing" largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood.
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May 29, 2026
Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek's "Found Sound" and Aida Salazar's "Stream" send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.
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May 28, 2026
Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of "Doonesbury" reunites with the journalist who pieced together his life story.
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May 28, 2026
"I love a clever puppet master," says the author of the Divergent series and the new "Seek the Traitor's Son." Her favorite hero? Antigone.
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May 28, 2026
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
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May 28, 2026
New fiction from Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and much more.
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May 27, 2026
Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly African American artist.
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May 27, 2026
A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.
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May 27, 2026
Our critic on three standout May books.
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May 27, 2026
In "Killing Spree," Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.
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May 27, 2026
For decades, publishers have swapped out cultural references in new editions of books to appeal to younger readers. Fans aren't always thrilled.
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May 26, 2026
He wrote 31 books, often drawing on his experiences as a pro football publicist, a foreign correspondent and a gun-toting spokesman for the N.Y.P.D.
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May 26, 2026
In his rethinking of Jean Genet's classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders "a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself."
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May 26, 2026
In "Freedom Round the Globe," Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the United States.
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May 26, 2026
Tom Lin's new novel, "Babylon, South Dakota," reimagines the western with surreal elements.
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May 26, 2026
The stoic narrator of "The Vivisectors" befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.
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May 26, 2026
Matt Haig returns with another life-affirming novel, this one about a man on a magical train that helps him revisit key moments of his life.
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May 25, 2026
A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.
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May 25, 2026
In "America, U.S.A.," Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country's past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.
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May 24, 2026
It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married.
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May 24, 2026
If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you'll need.
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May 23, 2026
Fans are traveling great distances for the chance to meet Tom Felton, who has revived a now grown-up Draco Malfoy on Broadway in "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child."
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May 23, 2026
In "The Danger to Be Sane," the journalist Rosa Montero delves into the connections between psychic turbulence and creative work — including her own.
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May 22, 2026
This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here's how the latest iteration came to be.
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May 22, 2026
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
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May 22, 2026
In "Dekonstructing the Kardashians," MJ Corey takes America's most famous TV clan seriously.
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May 22, 2026
As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.
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