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May 08, 2026
Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.
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May 08, 2026
Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be "punishing." Still, some considered him one of England's most important poets.
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May 08, 2026
"Wild Swans," a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao's regime.
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May 08, 2026
The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep's clothing.
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May 08, 2026
From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.
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May 08, 2026
As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.
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May 08, 2026
In "One Leg on Earth," a young college grad's idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.
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May 08, 2026
In "Screen People," Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.
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May 08, 2026
The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.
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May 08, 2026
In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.
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May 08, 2026
"A Rumor of War," about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed "the things men do in war and the things war does to them."
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May 07, 2026
Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.
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May 07, 2026
Fonda Lee's "cyberpunk samurai in space" novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.
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May 06, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 06, 2026
In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul community for insights into Turkey's hard-right turn.
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May 06, 2026
What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Show" on Broadway? Fishnets, five-inch heels, and an endless supply of glitter.
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May 06, 2026
Our columnist on the month's standout books.
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May 06, 2026
Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.
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May 06, 2026
The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
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May 05, 2026
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.
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May 05, 2026
"The Family Man," by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.
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May 05, 2026
Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark's "The Hill" portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother's jail cell and the world outside.
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May 05, 2026
"Riverwork," by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.
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May 05, 2026
In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.
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May 05, 2026
Séamas O'Reilly's new novel is a boisterous sendup of "prestige" media and its distortion of Northern Ireland's complex past.
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.
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May 04, 2026
"The Things We Never Say" leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.
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May 04, 2026
In the powerful and surprising "John of John," Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he'd left behind.
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May 03, 2026
Her new memoir, "True Crime," traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world's most famous thriller writers.
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May 03, 2026
Kathryn Stockett's prodigious second novel, "The Calamity Club," brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.
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May 03, 2026
It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was "fired" by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she's back on home turf with "The Calamity Club."
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May 02, 2026
In "The Successor," the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.
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May 02, 2026
In her memoir "Backtalker," Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw shows how personal trauma spurred her influential and controversial ideas about race and gender.
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May 01, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 01, 2026
Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl's wake.
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Apr 30, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 30, 2026
"When I love something, I urgently must put it in someone's hands," says the novelist, whose new "Last Night in Brooklyn" is an ode to old-style friendship.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Benjamin Hale's book "Cave Mountain" connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.
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Apr 29, 2026
On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
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Apr 29, 2026
The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad's new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Prophecy," Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
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Apr 29, 2026
Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Japanese Gothic," a 21st-century college student and a 19th-century samurai find themselves occupying the same house.
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Apr 28, 2026
In "Project Maven," Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input.
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Apr 28, 2026
The German writer Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy crackles with life and unsparing details of a broken society.
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Apr 27, 2026
Declared a national living treasure in 1997, he wrote poetry and short stories but was best known for his nine novels, including "The Great World."
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Apr 27, 2026
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature.
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Apr 27, 2026
A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.
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Apr 27, 2026
The nonfiction and novels we can't stop thinking about.
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Apr 27, 2026
The music journalist Bob Spitz, a keeper of numerous rock 'n' roll flames, has turned out a colorful and authoritative new take on a much-documented band.
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Apr 26, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 26, 2026
A middle-aged novelist sifts through memories of growing up in New Jersey in Tom Perrotta's frustratingly formulaic book.
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Apr 26, 2026
In her engaging, sympathetic book "Like, Follow, Subscribe," the journalist Fortesa Latifi digs into growing up in the spotlight.
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Apr 26, 2026
Jordan Harper knows the entertainment industry from the inside out. His new novel, "A Violent Masterpiece," holds nothing back.
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Apr 25, 2026
In her engaging, lyrical "Homesick for a World Unknown," Miriam Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller.
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Apr 25, 2026
It's National Poetry Month! Greg Cowles, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends some poetry books while writing poems with fridge magnets.
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Apr 25, 2026
"If you tell me eight o'clock," the film and martial arts star said, "I will be there 10 or 15 minutes before and wait."
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Apr 25, 2026
The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated "even if we don't hear a single one of his words."
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Apr 25, 2026
In "The Radiant Dark," life is upended after humanity receives a signal from a distant planet. But extraterrestrial contact takes a back seat to more earthly problems.
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Apr 24, 2026
The protagonist of this debut novel wants to get her bathroom upgraded. It becomes a portal to a Turkish prison cell instead.
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Apr 24, 2026
In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner's new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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Apr 24, 2026
In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.
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Apr 24, 2026
In his chatty, compulsively readable first book for adults, Mac Barnett champions his career choice and urges our culture to hold kids in higher esteem.
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Apr 23, 2026
The best-selling author Kelly Yang recommends mysteries set in Tinseltown, from the down and dirty to the deliciously dishy.
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Apr 23, 2026
In a host of books and articles as a political scientist, he attacked received ideas on the battle of the sexes, the usefulness of high school math and other subjects.
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Apr 22, 2026
Our columnist says Jordan Harper's "A Violent Masterpiece" is just that: a violent masterpiece.
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Apr 22, 2026
In "Israel: What Went Wrong?," Omer Bartov charts how a nation founded in the wake of trauma abandoned the emancipatory impulse of its origins.
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Apr 21, 2026
In a host of books he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the usefulness of high school math.
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Apr 21, 2026
In "The Palm House," Gwendoline Riley offers understated yet cleareyed observations of human behavior — this time about middle-aged Londoners struggling to stay relevant.
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Apr 21, 2026
"How It Feels to Be Alive," by Megan O'Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.
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Apr 21, 2026
In Sophie Mackintosh's novel "Permanence," cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication — and missing the mess.
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Apr 20, 2026
A new biography of Jan Morris shows why the journalist, world traveler, historian and essayist was far more than a trailblazer.
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Apr 20, 2026
The autobiographical novella, first published 50 years ago, arguably created a new type of guy: the literary fly fisherman.
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Apr 19, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 19, 2026
Rachel Goldberg-Polin's precise and devastating memoir chronicles the 328 days her son was held hostage in Gaza, and what came after.
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Apr 19, 2026
In "This Vast Enterprise," Craig Fehrman refreshes a familiar story with a rich chorus of voices.
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Apr 18, 2026
In "How to Be a Dissident," Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.
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Apr 17, 2026
The British author Gwendoline Riley may be as emotionally guarded as the women in her novels, which have caught on in America.
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Apr 17, 2026
The author of "A Wolf Called Wander" recommends titles old and new, fantastical and true, that celebrate the natural world.
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Apr 17, 2026
Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote "Famesick," a new memoir, she's taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.
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Apr 17, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 17, 2026
Our columnist reviews this season's new books.
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Apr 16, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 16, 2026
Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.
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Apr 16, 2026
Julia Langbein's novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.
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Apr 16, 2026
The U.S. poet laureate's new book, "Transient Worlds," collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.
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Apr 16, 2026
Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.
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Apr 15, 2026
Her 1979 memoir, "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," which also became a movie, detailed years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
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Apr 15, 2026
"I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
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Apr 15, 2026
Mark Rosenblatt's Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children's book author, draws from Dahl's comments over the years.
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Apr 15, 2026
In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk's disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.
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Apr 15, 2026
In "Rasputin," the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina's mystic adviser.
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Apr 15, 2026
Nicholas Enrich's tell-all memoir, "Into the Wood Chipper," has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.
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Apr 15, 2026
This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.
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Apr 14, 2026
Solvej Balle's cult hit series about a woman trapped in a time loop continues with a fourth volume.
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Apr 14, 2026
This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of "Girls."
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