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Jul 18, 2025
2025 is more than halfway gone. On this week's podcast, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib discuss some of the books that have stayed with them most this year.
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Jul 18, 2025
A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today.
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Jul 18, 2025
An adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera, in turn based on Melville's classic novella, joins a lineage of beautiful enigmas.
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Jul 18, 2025
It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it's a bad thing?
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Jul 18, 2025
Adapted from the Esi Edugyan novel, this Hulu series follows a child who escapes slavery and embarks on a life of swashbuckling adventure.
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Jul 18, 2025
A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today.
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Jul 18, 2025
Examining artifacts from the archive of British Romanticism, a scholar finds evidence of intimate, if often overlooked, connections to slavery.
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Jul 18, 2025
Two darkly amusing graphic novels for kids pit machine learning and rocket science against good old-fashioned humanity.
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Jul 17, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 17, 2025
A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the "Pride and Prejudice" author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.
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Jul 17, 2025
David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he's not entirely comfortable as an influencer.
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Jul 17, 2025
The Alaska lawmaker was given a copy when first appointed to the Senate in 2002 and it's still on her bedside table. "Far From Home" is her new memoir.
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Jul 16, 2025
A poet and memoirist as well, she drew a wide readership with her historical fiction, notably with a Civil War-era tale that was adapted for a movie.
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Jul 16, 2025
He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective as its antihero.
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Jul 16, 2025
Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access.
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Jul 16, 2025
In Kerry Cullen's uncanny debut, "House of Beth," a queer 20-something finds that "straight" life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached.
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Jul 16, 2025
Our critic on the month's best new novels.
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Jul 15, 2025
The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer's poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe's error deepened the confusion around it.
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Jul 15, 2025
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
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Jul 15, 2025
In "The Club," Jennifer Dasal investigates a refuge for (some) expat artists in the City of Light.
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Jul 15, 2025
In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's "The Bewitching," a graduate student stumbles into a haunting conspiracy while researching a cult writer.
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Jul 15, 2025
"Empire of the Elite," by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.
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Jul 15, 2025
The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after the fall of communism.
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Jul 15, 2025
In "The Aviator and the Showman," Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot's marriage to "the publishing world's P.T. Barnum."
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Jul 14, 2025
Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled sharp edges and melancholy resolutions.
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Jul 14, 2025
"Bonding," by Mariel Franklin, is a love story charged by the absurdities of a market-driven culture.
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Jul 14, 2025
Dino Buzzati's best works evoke the fabulism, paranoia and allegory of writers like Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and Italo Calvino.
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Jul 14, 2025
The crossover genre blending the passion of romance with the high-stakes escapism of fantasy has dominated the literary landscape. Here's where to start.
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Jul 13, 2025
Kashana Cauley's novel "The Payback" imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they're into reiki.
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Jul 12, 2025
A classic coming-of-age novel; a cultural history of early America.
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Jul 12, 2025
In "Nothing More of This Land," the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island's Indigenous history.
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Jul 11, 2025
In her new book, "A Marriage at Sea," the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.
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Jul 11, 2025
Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading "The Song of Achilles."
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Jul 11, 2025
An author, public speaker and professor, he taught a hugely popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the essential importance of sleep.
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Jul 11, 2025
At his Chicago restaurant Ever, which played a supporting role in "The Bear," the chef Curtis Duffy refines his story.
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Jul 11, 2025
At his Chicago restaurant Ever, which played a supporting role in "The Bear," the chef Curtis Duffy refines his story.
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Jul 11, 2025
Writing for The Daily Planet about his heroic alter ego raises thorny issues for Clark Kent. Lois Lane has her conflicts, too.
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Jul 11, 2025
"Mexican Gothic" was a breakout book for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who describes herself as "not a people person." Her new novel is "The Bewitching."
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Jul 10, 2025
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
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Jul 10, 2025
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
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Jul 10, 2025
With books like "The Mother Knot" and "Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness," she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America.
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Jul 10, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 10, 2025
An author and a professor, he taught a popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the importance of sleep, including "power naps."
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Jul 10, 2025
He taught an immensely popular and entertaining introduction to psychology course at Cornell University that featured a focus on the importance of sleep.
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Jul 10, 2025
Hannah Pittard wrote a memoir about the breakup. When she learned that her ex planned a novel about it, she took it back up, this time as fiction (sort of).
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Jul 10, 2025
"The Unraveling of Julia," her 37th book, has taken the thriller writer into new territory: "I'm going Gothic, baby!"
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Jul 09, 2025
A harrowing new book tells the story of the women determined to learn the fates of the babies born to their pregnant daughters in captivity.
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Jul 08, 2025
Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.
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Jul 08, 2025
Sarah MacLean's "These Summer Storms" is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.
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Jul 08, 2025
"2024," a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.
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Jul 08, 2025
"A Marriage at Sea" tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.
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Jul 07, 2025
"Vera, or Faith" follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.
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Jul 07, 2025
The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality of navigating environmental crisis.
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Jul 07, 2025
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.
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Jul 06, 2025
Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in "Culpability."
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Jul 06, 2025
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three dystopian novels to read this summer.
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Jul 06, 2025
The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer's fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises.
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Jul 05, 2025
Our columnist reviews recent releases.
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Jul 05, 2025
Our columnist reviews recent releases.
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Jul 05, 2025
With humor and range, Rob Franklin's novel, "Great Black Hope," examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.
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Jul 04, 2025
Teri Kanefield's "Rebels, Robbers and Radicals" brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.
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Jul 04, 2025
He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.
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Jul 03, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 03, 2025
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television's "News at Ten."
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Jul 03, 2025
Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and a live-action movie.
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Jul 02, 2025
Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement's considerable human costs.
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Jul 02, 2025
A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country's complex moral universe onscreen.
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Jul 02, 2025
In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.
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Jul 02, 2025
Our columnist on July's most notable books.
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Jul 01, 2025
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.
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Jul 01, 2025
In "The CIA Book Club," Charlie English tells the story of America's war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.
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Jul 01, 2025
A childhood friendship in upper-class Beijing is tested by envy, ambition and relentless materialism.
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Jul 01, 2025
Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.
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Jul 01, 2025
In "The Beast in the Clouds," Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow.
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Jun 30, 2025
Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.
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Jun 30, 2025
Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more.
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Jun 29, 2025
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.
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Jun 29, 2025
Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should have dealt with it sooner.
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Jun 29, 2025
Our critic on the month's best new books.
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Jun 28, 2025
Our columnist on some stellar recent releases.
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Jun 28, 2025
André Breton's 1928 novel "Nadja" pays homage to a great love and to a great city.
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Jun 27, 2025
He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality.
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Jun 27, 2025
Virginia Woolf's classic novel, celebrating its 100th anniversary, is the topic of this month's discussion.
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Jun 27, 2025
He walked away from his family's hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
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Jun 27, 2025
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss "The Catch," a psychological thriller about twin sisters and their mother, whom they had presumed dead.
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Jun 27, 2025
"Mansfield Park" continues to complicate the writer's legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel's dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.
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Jun 26, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 26, 2025
Her 76 books included "Life as We Knew It," a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.
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Jun 26, 2025
The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.
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Jun 25, 2025
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
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Jun 25, 2025
He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point.
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Jun 25, 2025
A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.
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Jun 25, 2025
A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.
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Jun 25, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you've saved most to your reading lists.
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Jun 25, 2025
The award-winning mystery novelist's new book, "Ecstasy," is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides' play "The Bacchae."
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Jun 25, 2025
"No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate," says the fantasy writer, whose new book is "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil."
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Jun 24, 2025
Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird's satirical novel, "The Nimbus," strains for the heavenly.
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Jun 24, 2025
Along with some 100 images of everyday objects and scenes, "Point Blank" will include vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton.
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Jun 24, 2025
"The Compound" takes place on the set of a deeply twisted reality TV show.
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Jun 24, 2025
In "Make It Ours," Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer's short, historic career.
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