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May 27, 2020
A 2009 novel predicted the Chinese people would forget a traumatic crisis. The puzzle, says its author, is how it happened so fast.
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May 26, 2020
Mr. Bailey was a longtime New Yorker magazine writer who wrote about Rembrandt, J. M. W. Turner and other artists. He died from the novel coronavirus.
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May 26, 2020
In "The Vanishing Half," her follow-up to "The Mothers," Brit Bennett writes about twin sisters from Louisiana who set out in very different directions.
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May 26, 2020
Racial strife, consent, wealth inequality: The issues swirling in these fantastical settings may seem familiar.
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May 26, 2020
In "Trumpocalypse," a former prominent neoconservative reflects on what he got wrong, and where we should go from here.
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May 26, 2020
The Harry Potter author said her new fairy tale would go online in installments, starting Tuesday, and published as a book in November.
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May 26, 2020
"Red Dress in Black and White," by Elliot Ackerman, features an American woman anxious to leave her Turkish husband as political unrest rages in Istanbul.
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May 26, 2020
In "Fairest," Meredith Talusan looks back on her life lived at the intersection of genders, races, sexualities and cultures.
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May 26, 2020
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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May 26, 2020
"The Death of Jesus," the final novel in a trilogy, is a modern fable that challenges our limited understanding of reality.
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May 26, 2020
Jim Rasenberger's "Revolver" explores Sam Colt and the invention of the six-shooter, while Tom Clavin's "Tombstone" looks at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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May 26, 2020
"The Cubans," by Anthony DePalma, paints a detailed, novelistic portrait of a handful of ordinary Cubans — their hopes, political beliefs and struggles to get by.
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May 25, 2020
Buford recounts his intensely focused experiences in restaurant kitchens after moving his family to Lyon.
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May 25, 2020
How do you ask for attention when the world is consumed by a life-or-death crisis?
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May 23, 2020
What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse?
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May 23, 2020
In Remy Lai's "Fly on the Wall," an overprotected boy who feels invisible at school creates an eavesdropping alter ego.
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May 23, 2020
In Lucy Knisley's "Stepping Stones," a city girl faces her fears about farming, family life and evil stepsisters.
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May 22, 2020
Jia Lynn Yang talks about "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide," and Judith Newman discusses books that help simplify life.
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May 22, 2020
The catalogs meant to accompany the spring's biggest exhibitions are now the exhibitions themselves.
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May 22, 2020
Summer reading. One teenager's fight against the new Covid syndrome. Running while black. Annie Glenn dies. Suze Orman. Spike Lee. Ronan Farrow. And more.
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May 22, 2020
Patrik Svensson mixed natural history with memoir for his debut, which has become a surprise best seller and award winner in his native Sweden.
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May 22, 2020
Thomas E. Ricks considers books from ancient China down to the war in Afghanistan.
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May 22, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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May 22, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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May 21, 2020
"The President's Daughter," set to come out in June 2021, follows their best-selling novel "The President Is Missing."
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May 21, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 21, 2020
"For once, I'd like to ask the questions."
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May 21, 2020
As the art world mulls whether a return to "normalcy" should be its goal, publishers mine the archives of artists who found their own counterpaths.
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May 21, 2020
It has been decreed: The author of the ‘Selection' series has another best seller.
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May 21, 2020
In "Life for Sale," a young copywriter fails at suicide, offers his life up in the classifieds and has a series of misadventures.
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May 20, 2020
If you know what you've liked in the past, here are some books that might work for you now.
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May 20, 2020
In lockdown and through our screens, we're reminded of all that's special and strange about group reading: a solitary, private act made public.
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May 20, 2020
If you know what you've liked in the past, here are some books that might work for you now.
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May 20, 2020
In lockdown and through our screens, we're reminded of all that's special and strange about group reading: a solitary, private act made public.
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May 20, 2020
In "The Price of Peace," Zachary D. Carter situates the development of Keynes's economic thought in relation to his social milieu.
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May 19, 2020
His newspaper column, books and blog sought to hold the police accountable, and his reporting reopened a murder case against a Kennedy cousin in Connecticut.
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May 19, 2020
In her fiction she depicted "the struggle of Chinese immigrants in American society" — not the "Oriental exoticism" preferred by many publishers in the '60s.
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May 19, 2020
Two new books, Jia Lynn Yang's "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide" and Adam Goodman's "The Deportation Machine," take very different approaches to the immigration question.
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May 19, 2020
Our critic Parul Sehgal examines how the notion of time — and how we describe it — has changed during the quarantine.
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May 19, 2020
Total U.S. sales in March were down 8.4 percent to $667 million, a sign of how the early days of the pandemic hurt booksellers and publishers.
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May 19, 2020
A teenage Coriolanus Snow stars in Suzanne Collins's "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," which is every bit as violent and jarring as the first three books.
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May 19, 2020
An excerpt from "The Equivalents," by Maggie Doherty
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May 19, 2020
An excerpt from "The Motion of the Body Through Space," by Lionel Shriver
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May 19, 2020
An excerpt from "Drifts," by Kate Zambreno
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May 19, 2020
Interested in learning how to knit your own socks, make cheese or grow medicinal herbs during your home quarantine? You're not alone.
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May 19, 2020
Nikita Stewart's article about Troop 6000 landed them on the front page. Her book should lead to a bigger conversation about their struggles.
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May 19, 2020
Dola de Jong's 1954 novel "The Tree and the Vine" is a portrait of two women dogged by issues too personal to be defined by political catastrophe.
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May 19, 2020
"The Equivalents," by Maggie Doherty, combines the story of a Radcliffe College institute to support creative women with that of the friendship forged by five early fellows.
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May 19, 2020
In "The Motion of the Body Through Space," a lifelong couch potato starts running, and trouble follows.
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May 19, 2020
Kate Zambreno's novel "Drifts" is an inquiry into how the artist remains in a mist of dreamy attention and in the fire of productivity.
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May 19, 2020
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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May 19, 2020
In this novel, an alternative biography of sorts, Hillary strides into the history books without Clinton at the end of her name.
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May 19, 2020
An excerpt from "The Chiffon Trenches," by André Leon Talley
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May 18, 2020
Authors are racing to produce timely accounts of the outbreak, with works that range from reported narratives to spiritual guides.
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May 18, 2020
Authors are racing to produce timely accounts of the outbreak, with works that range from reported narratives to spiritual guides.
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May 18, 2020
No longer do I have to make creative excuses for the things I don't want to do. Science and nature have done that for me.
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May 16, 2020
In Lisa Brown's first long-form graphic novel, "The Phantom Twin," a formerly conjoined twin touring in a sideshow feels the pang of cut ties.
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May 16, 2020
In Kenneth Oppel's "Bloom," three meek teenagers seem poised to inherit the earth. But what kind of earth will it be?
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May 15, 2020
The Chronicles of Now tries to make sense of recent headlines with bite-size fiction.
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May 15, 2020
The Chronicles of Now tries to make sense of recent headlines with bite-size fiction.
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May 15, 2020
In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus's "The Plague," a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran.
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May 15, 2020
Fang Fang's online diary, now a book, made her a nuisance to the powers that be and a national hero to many others in China.
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May 15, 2020
Lauren Sandler talks about "This Is All I Got," and Sarah Weinman discusses classic mysteries.
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May 15, 2020
He won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He also wrote about hunger in America and the politics of the B-1 bomber.
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May 15, 2020
Whether you live in an apartment, house, mansion or cabin, here are books that will help you explore the meaning of where you are right now.
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May 15, 2020
Critics at The Times discuss the transfer of Sally Rooney's novel to TV.
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May 15, 2020
In "The Chiffon Trenches," the former Vogue editor grapples with his own complicated story.
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May 15, 2020
From Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler to Patricia Highsmith, classic detective stories are given new life in audio form.
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May 15, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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May 15, 2020
This week's Crime column includes a computer gamer who is handy with a Samurai sword and a 14-year-old girl who solves a murder in an amusement park.
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May 15, 2020
If a first book is published in the midst of a pandemic, does it make a splash? For this crew, the answer should be yes.
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May 15, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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May 15, 2020
Writers today might be unwittingly following in the path of the greatest literary recluse.
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May 14, 2020
A crisis of conscience in Vietnam led him to conclude that the agency was "a malevolent force" and to lay it bare in a memoir, "Deadly Deceits."
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May 14, 2020
The conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan conceived of the "Bedtime Stories" series as a way to foster a sense of connection during the coronavirus crisis.
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May 14, 2020
Book events worldwide are on hold, but Afrolit Sans Frontieres uses social media to host frank discussions around writing, creativity, sex and violence.
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May 14, 2020
The juiciest fashion memoir of the year is out. But is it a tell-all, a tragedy or a harbinger of things to come?
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May 14, 2020
"Life is short and there are many other books."
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May 14, 2020
"All Adults Here" is not an accurate description of her life these days.
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May 13, 2020
Brit Bennett, Megha Majumdar, Roddy Doyle and Marie-Helene Bertino talk about their new books.
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May 13, 2020
This season's reading will have to do more than usual to help us get away from it all while we can't get away.
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May 12, 2020
Taking the helm in 2008, she steered the publishing house, one of the Big Five, through a deep recession and a digital revolution.
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May 12, 2020
His books broke new ground in political science, emphasizing politicians' interactions not in Washington but in their home districts.
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May 12, 2020
Across the country, booksellers are wrestling with how to safely open their stores. Some are racing ahead. Others feel it's too risky.
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May 12, 2020
An excerpt from "The Arab Winter," by Noah Feldman
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May 12, 2020
"The Hunger Games" and "The Hate U Give" actress also lists Tierra Whack's music and her grandfather's violin among the 10 things she can't live without.
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May 12, 2020
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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May 12, 2020
"In Praise of Walking" and "In Praise of Paths" offer two very different approaches to the benefits of taking regular strolls.
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May 12, 2020
An excerpt from "A Children's Bible," by Lydia Millet
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May 12, 2020
In "Enemy of All Mankind," Steven Johnson argues that a 1695 showdown on the high seas was a crucial turning point in the rise of the British Empire.
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May 12, 2020
The heroine of Amy Jo Burns's debut novel, "Shiner," comes of age amid the patriarchy of contemporary Appalachia.
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May 12, 2020
In "Sunny Days," David Kamp traces a revolutionary decade in kids' TV.
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May 12, 2020
His collection "Sorry for Your Trouble" features characters who find that the pieces of their lives no longer fit.
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May 12, 2020
In "The World," Richard Haass urges Americans to educate themselves about an increasingly dangerous planet.
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May 12, 2020
In "The Shapeless Unease," the British novelist Samantha Harvey ponders her struggles with insomnia.
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May 12, 2020
Jill Watts's "The Black Cabinet" highlights the struggles of those African-Americans who worked in the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
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May 12, 2020
Gilles Kepel's "Away From Chaos" is a useful overview of the many changes that have roiled the Muslim world.
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May 12, 2020
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan's "Atomic Spy" offers new material on Klaus Fuchs, the notorious Manhattan Project physicist.
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May 12, 2020
Noah Feldman's "The Arab Winter" tries to find hope in a grim turn of events.
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May 12, 2020
In "Dark Mirror," Barton Gellman writes about being one of the few journalists to whom Snowden leaked classified documents about government surveillance.
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