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Sep 26, 2026
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Sep 26, 2026
In "Mestra," Madeline Miller follows the daughter of the king of Thessaly on her endless, self-destructive quest to satisfy her insatiable father.
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Sep 26, 2026
"Dodge City," by Patrick deWitt, follows a young man on a road trip to Canada to avoid conscription in Vietnam.
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Sep 26, 2026
Our columnist on three books worth your time.
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Sep 26, 2026
Michael Douglas and Sylvester Stallone are among the tough (and tough-ish) guys getting personal in memoirs this fall.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
Yoon's latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
In October, the Book Review Book Club will read Cline's latest, about a man with dementia who has decided to end his life on his own terms.
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Sep 25, 2026
A new book by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz recounts how violent resistance by a group of armed Black men fueled the fight over slavery.
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Sep 25, 2026
Lois Lowry pioneered dystopian fiction for young readers. "Building 903" adds to her legacy.
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Sep 25, 2026
More than just instruction on how to use a weapon, the courses teach a way of life, the sociologist Harel Shapira argues in "Basic Pistol."
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Sep 25, 2026
The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he'd never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.
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Sep 24, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 24, 2026
In his new book, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that without feelings, true intelligence cannot exist.
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Sep 23, 2026
The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the "Invisible Man" author, who taught classes there.
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Sep 23, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.
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Sep 23, 2026
On the novel's 50th anniversary, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the story behind the story.
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Sep 23, 2026
If you've devoured all of the Queen of Crime's whodunits, here are more twisty mysteries that may satisfy your craving.
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Sep 23, 2026
A group of New York Times journalists test-drove routes that wind through shops specializing in comics, drama, fantasy and romance.
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Sep 22, 2026
If James wins for "The Disappearers" or Stuart for "John of John," it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.
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Sep 22, 2026
Doireann Ni Ghriofa's "Said the Dead" is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.
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Sep 22, 2026
In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.
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Sep 22, 2026
In "The Age of Cures," the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.
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Sep 22, 2026
"Swan Song," Charles Spencer's memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.
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Sep 22, 2026
Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana died, her brother has written a book about her life, her marriage to Prince Charles and the suffering she endured at the hands of the tabloid press.
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Sep 21, 2026
Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state's most beloved stories.
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Sep 21, 2026
His "The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook" made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Shadow Before the Flame," Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Crossing the Red Line," Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Sep 21, 2026
When she started her new novel, Julie Orringer didn't know that it would mirror the taxing medical challenges faced by her husband.
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Sep 21, 2026
The poet and lyricist Gulzar has profoundly shaped the idea of tender romance in India through his verse and songs in more than 150 musicals.
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Sep 21, 2026
These epic, star-spanning adventure stories blend interstellar action with political allegory and romantic drama. Here's where to start.
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Sep 20, 2026
"Roll the Calls," the new book by the Hollywood mogul, is an entertaining and expletive-filled read that surprisingly pulls some punches.
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Sep 20, 2026
Fights, feuds and insults are all in a day's work for Ari Emanuel, who offers an unvarnished look at his rapacious career in a new memoir.
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Sep 20, 2026
Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul, and somehow, my dog.
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Sep 20, 2026
Zibby Owens has parlayed her wealth into a multipronged media company that publishes her work. No one doubts her enthusiasm, but many question her management.
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Sep 19, 2026
"Otherwhere," a collection of new and selected poems, shows that Forché has been using verse to bear witness for half a century.
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Sep 19, 2026
The best-selling author Nina Simon recommends mystery novels where blood is thicker than murder.
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Sep 18, 2026
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded "extraordinary proof" that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Sep 18, 2026
In translating synth pop to a theatrical format in the "American Psycho" musical, Sheik matched what he did with rock in the acclaimed "Spring Awakening."
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Sep 18, 2026
In John Green's "Hollywood, Ending," two young actors navigate the highs and lows of Hollywood.
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Sep 18, 2026
Ten recommendations for fans of the mega-popular dueling-animals series.
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Sep 18, 2026
In short stories and her racy new novel, Deesha Philyaw takes on women, piety and the clergymen who make, and break, the rules.
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Sep 17, 2026
The former president of the free expression group, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in July, partly over concerns about an article outlining the group's opposition to cultural boycotts.
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Sep 17, 2026
"The Rouse," by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.
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Sep 17, 2026
In "Ausländer," Michael Moritz, the managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.
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Sep 17, 2026
In "When America Roared," Jonathan Kaufman draws together a bushel of figures who thrived in one fateful decade.
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Sep 17, 2026
But the comedian isn't naïve when he makes selections for his popular book club: "Most importantly, they're short."
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Sep 16, 2026
Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of "cuffing season," "shishito" or "glow-up."
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Sep 16, 2026
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Sep 16, 2026
In "True North," the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.
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Sep 16, 2026
"Know Your Rights" is the latest publication from the public schools' educational comics program Civics for All.
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Sep 16, 2026
In "Live Laugh Love," Kristin Kobes Du Mez examines how Christian women absorbed the idea that material abundance was evidence of divine favor.
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Sep 16, 2026
For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.
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Sep 15, 2026
Patterson has worked with a handful of celebrities on books in recent years, but his collaboration with YouTube's biggest star aims for a new audience.
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Sep 15, 2026
Psychologists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling with guilt, shame or questions of what comes next.
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Sep 15, 2026
In Sarah Anderson's satirical novel, "Fallow," a debt-laden woman becomes a professional surrogate for a corporate behemoth.
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Sep 15, 2026
"Our Noble Selves" takes place amid the 1951 Festival of Britain, when a traumatized ex-war reporter and P.O.W. goes from government cog to murder suspect.
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Sep 15, 2026
In "End Times Fascism," Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that apocalyptic ideology has taken hold over American elites.
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Sep 15, 2026
Sebastian Barry's new novel tours a post-Civil War America where cruelty is ever-present but love endures.
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Sep 15, 2026
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a recent Tony nominee for "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," returns to the director's chair for this season's revival of "Seven Guitars."
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Sep 14, 2026
"The Doll" on Netflix is based on a novel that's revered in Poland. It also has the requisite duels, corsets and palaces, as well as elaborate wigs and mustaches.
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Sep 14, 2026
Two career-spanning essay collections, from Nik Cohn and Jerry Stahl, revel in life's margins and recapture auras past.
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Sep 14, 2026
In "Exit Party," by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America's future crash into each other.
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Sep 14, 2026
In "Profiles in Cowardice," Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy's collection of heroic biographies.
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Sep 13, 2026
Pegged to the anniversary of 9/11, "Hollow Bones" now resonates with the riveting Lindsay Clancy trial.
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Sep 13, 2026
In "Redwood," Ben Macintyre tells the story of a Russian spy in Iran who betrayed his country in exchange for an unusual request.
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Sep 12, 2026
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of "end times fascists" is just fine with the earth's demise.
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Sep 12, 2026
In "A Shadow Over the World," William I. Hitchcock shows how the early struggle against totalitarianism was rife with contradictions.
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Sep 11, 2026
A book influencer shares her most anticipated fall reads. Plus, things to do this weekend that don't involve curling up with a book.
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Sep 11, 2026
In "Dressing the Queen" the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the image.
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Sep 11, 2026
His moody portrait became the album cover for "Kind of Blue." Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.
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Sep 11, 2026
If you're tempted to ghost someone, try a "connected goodbye" instead.
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Sep 11, 2026
A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.
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Sep 10, 2026
Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.
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Sep 10, 2026
"I haven't finished it yet," she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, "Otherwhere," collects 50 years of her poetry.
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Sep 10, 2026
The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky's "Mock Heart" show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.
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Sep 10, 2026
The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.
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Sep 09, 2026
In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.
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Sep 09, 2026
Her new album, "Good Grief," mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel "The Interestings" is about finding a different kind of fulfillment in a creative life than you'd once imagined, which Bareilles knows something about.
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Sep 09, 2026
Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.
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Sep 08, 2026
MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.
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Sep 08, 2026
In "Money to Burn," William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.
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Sep 08, 2026
In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.
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Sep 08, 2026
The author describes the main character of her new novel, "Exit Party," to a forensic sketch artist.
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Sep 08, 2026
The experiences Ms. Kuang had during a summer spent studying Mandarin in the Taiwanese capital helped her shape her newest novel, "Taipei Story."
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Sep 08, 2026
Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.
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Sep 08, 2026
New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.
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Sep 07, 2026
The author behind the cult-classic movie is back with a new series about the power of female friendship — and witches.
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Sep 07, 2026
"Taipei Story," R.F. Kuang's seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.
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Sep 06, 2026
His colloquial language, emotionality and gay topics brought him widespread praise, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and other literary honors.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Living With Freddie," Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her "to be human."
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Sep 06, 2026
In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline's new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.
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Sep 06, 2026
In "Tower Hill," the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.
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Sep 05, 2026
She edited the landmark 1970 anthology "Sisterhood Is Powerful," led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.
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Sep 05, 2026
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "All the Presidents' Wars," the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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Sep 05, 2026
Even a very successful thriller writer fights self-doubt. His new tough-talking writing guide doubles as a memoir that explains why, and how to beat it.
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Sep 05, 2026
In "The Living Realm," an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.
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