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Jul 18, 2019
If past experience (cough, blogs) is any indication, a shakeout is nigh.
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Jul 17, 2019
In "The Weil Conjectures," Karen Olsson writes about her own love of math as well as the lives of the great mathematician André Weil and his sister, the philosopher and secular saint Simone Weil.
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Jul 17, 2019
She and her family, whom she later wrote about, were among the last Jews to flee what she called a "cultural holocaust" and ended up in Brooklyn in the early 1960s.
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Jul 17, 2019
The 2019-20 season also features appearances by Billy Porter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jul 17, 2019
Stevens's "The Making of a Justice" is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the law.
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Jul 17, 2019
He's the author of a farce called "Seventy-Two Virgins," a Churchill biography and a book in verse about pushy parents. They all say something about his personality.
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Jul 17, 2019
Mr. Camilleri was a late-blooming novelist whose series about a Sicilian police officer became wildly popular in Italy and the basis for a television series.
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Jul 17, 2019
Three summer thrillers — by Ruth Ware, Adrian McKinty and Alex North — feature children in peril.
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Jul 16, 2019
Responses to a recent issue of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 16, 2019
Bianca Marais's "If You Want to Make God Laugh" shines a light on the racial inequalities of the post-apartheid era.
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Jul 16, 2019
A writer and publisher who had lost his sight, he opened his door to a revolving cast of painters, poets, musicians and others for meandering conversation.
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Jul 16, 2019
Each chapter of David Szalay's new novel picks up from the last, presenting a new protagonist traveling by flight.
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Jul 16, 2019
David Roberts's "Escalante's Dream" retraces the 1,700-mile journey of an expedition led by two Spanish friars in the 18th-century Southwest.
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Jul 16, 2019
Courtney Maum's "Costalegre" is narrated by the 15-year-old daughter of an American art collector, and set in the Mexican jungle.
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Jul 16, 2019
When the thriller writer Lisa Gardner needed to research a new book, she toured the facility that has made death into a science.
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Jul 16, 2019
When the thriller writer Lisa Gardner needed to research a new book, she toured the facility that has made death into a science.
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Jul 16, 2019
Men are more likely to be involved in violent crime — as perpetrators and victims — but women love to read about it. Kate Tuttle considers the gendered attractions of the genre.
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Jul 15, 2019
Elizabeth Gabler, the executive behind hit movies like "The Devil Wears Prada," will run a venture financed by Sony Pictures and HarperCollins Publishers.
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Jul 15, 2019
Those who knew where to look on East 84th Street could find an apartment stuffed with literature and a literary salon to go with it.
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Jul 15, 2019
Those who knew where to look on East 84th Street could find an apartment stuffed with literature and a literary salon to go with it.
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Jul 15, 2019
Science fiction illuminates reality by imagining the unreal in a mind-bending show at the Queens Museum.
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Jul 14, 2019
The reform school at the center of Whitehead's new novel (his first since "The Underground Railroad") is more like a prison where the inmates are brutalized and even killed.
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Jul 14, 2019
Ben Lewis's new book explores the purported 500-year history of "Salvator Mundi," a painting of Christ that shattered auction records in 2017.
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Jul 13, 2019
Svetlana Alexievich's newly translated oral history, "Last Witnesses," presents the recollections of Russians who experienced World War II as children.
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Jul 12, 2019
Will discusses "The Conservative Sensibility," and David Maraniss talks about "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father."
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Jul 12, 2019
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jul 12, 2019
The cover is clean and brand-new, the pages are crisp — and then your vacation begins. Jessica Olien illustrates the path to the dog-eared and waterlogged.
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Jul 12, 2019
William H. Gass's "The Tunnel" explores eerily resonant themes of midcentury Western fascism.
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Jul 12, 2019
Four of our journalists, who are also published authors, think you should read these books, too.
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Jul 12, 2019
It's hardly glamorous but still enticing, as reported by a young black chef, an obsessive blogger, a prickly female restaurateur and the man who made Noma famous.
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Jul 12, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 12, 2019
In "Whisper Network," Chandler Baker explores the ways women protect other women in the workplace.
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Jul 12, 2019
Literary history is filled with authors who depended on lengthy visits for room and board, psychological solace and material. But they have not always proved the most gracious guests.
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Jul 12, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 11, 2019
He emphasized that diaspora meant more than just the American slave trade. It began in prehistoric times, he said, and continues to this day.
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Jul 11, 2019
Delia Owens returns to "Beloved" every now and then: "One sentence from Toni Morrison can inspire a lifetime of writing."
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Jul 11, 2019
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved novella for BalletX doesn't elevate the production beyond a story staged as a dance.
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Jul 11, 2019
Matt Zurbo's challenge, named after his daughter, Cielo, is an unconventional labor of love.
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Jul 11, 2019
Whitehead's new novel, about the friendship between two boys, was inspired by the harrowing real-life story of a notorious reform school in Florida.
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Jul 10, 2019
A pitcher who had modest success with the Yankees in the 1960s, Bouton revealed the seamier side of baseball in a book that was a best seller.
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Jul 10, 2019
In his memoir, "Places and Names," the Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman travels to Syria and sees a refracted image of the forever wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Jul 10, 2019
Ury's books about a young German girl were so beloved, readers clung to them through the upheaval of World War II and passed them on to their children. But few knew Ury died in Auschwitz.
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Jul 10, 2019
Beach books are the cool aunts of the literary world: They drive with the top down and take you to new places. They're memorable, challenging, warm and wise.
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Jul 10, 2019
Beach books are the cool aunts of the literary world: They drive with the top down and take you to new places. They're memorable, challenging, warm and wise.
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Jul 09, 2019
During a worldwide economic collapse, the heroes of Andri Snaer Magnason's "The Casket of Time" seal themselves in time-proof boxes. So does everyone else.
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Jul 09, 2019
In his deeply reported new book, Tim Alberta writes about George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the transformation that led to the G.O.P.'s loyal support for the current president.
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Jul 09, 2019
"The Chain," by Adrian McKinty, imagines a crime syndicate operating a string of abductions like a chain letter, with each set of victims responsible for taking the next hostage.
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Jul 09, 2019
"The Code," by Margaret O'Mara, is an ambitious history of the cozy relationship between California's tech start-ups and the federal government.
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Jul 09, 2019
After her American publisher delayed her new book, "Outrages," over accuracy concerns, she is responding with a strategy mixing scholarly peer review and damage control.
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Jul 09, 2019
Alexi Zentner's new novel, "Copperhead," attempts to explain but not excuse institutionalized racism.
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Jul 09, 2019
In Martin Clark's "The Substitution Order," the criminal justice system is irretrievably broken, exploited by con men, crooks and corrupt officials.
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Jul 09, 2019
Lara Williams's debut novel, "Supper Club," gathers insatiable women for bacchanalian gatherings.
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Jul 09, 2019
The renowned fashion designer Daniel R. Day recounts a life spent on the streets — and in the ateliers — of Upper Manhattan.
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Jul 09, 2019
To write her book, Lisa Taddeo spent thousands of hours over eight years getting to know her subjects in an effort to understand their eroticyearnings and obsessions.
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Jul 09, 2019
"Beneath the Tamarind Tree," by Isha Sesay, weaves an account of the Nigerian girls' kidnapping with the story of her own mother, another African girl determined to get an education.
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Jul 09, 2019
In Ludmila Ulitskaya's sprawling novel "Jacob's Ladder," the trials of a family's women mirror those of generations of Russians.
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Jul 08, 2019
Sought out by the White House and the State Department, she stressed the importance of ethics in policymaking and of heeding one's conscience.
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Jul 08, 2019
"Rain" (by Mia Couto), "The Sun on My Head" (by Geovani Martins) and "Arid Dreams" (by Duanwad Pimwana) depict landscapes of misfortune around the world.
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Jul 08, 2019
Some of the original artwork for the comic strip, originated by Jim Davis in 1978, is up for grabs starting Tuesday.
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Jul 08, 2019
In "Higher Etiquette," Lizzie Post — the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post — argues that it's time for cannabis to move, in the public imagination, away from its surfer and "Cheech and Chong" image.
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Jul 08, 2019
In "Higher Etiquette," Lizzie Post — the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post — argues that it's time for cannabis to move, in the public imagination, away from its surfer and "Cheech and Chong" image.
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Jul 08, 2019
Three shows and one new book vividly illustrate how photography and art can capture the moment, whether it's men going to the moon or models striding a catwalk.
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Jul 08, 2019
More than two dozen artists honored the poet, artist and activist with murals at the Los Angeles high school that bears her name. Our photographer captured the works being created.
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Jul 08, 2019
In a new book, the archaeologist makes the case that ancient history illuminates solutions to modern problems.
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Jul 08, 2019
With "Misty of Chincoteague," Marguerite Henry launched the horse-mad dreams of millions of readers. One finally went to Pony Penning on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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Jul 08, 2019
In Madeline ffitch's debut, "Stay and Fight," an urbane hipster finds herself when she relocates to Appalachia.
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Jul 07, 2019
Her poetry — some of it stashed in a drawer for years — was tempered by years of being a single mother and her Roman Catholic faith.
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Jul 07, 2019
Christopher Benfey's "If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years" traces their influence on his work — and Kipling's lasting influence on others.
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Jul 07, 2019
In Helen Phillips's "The Need," an exhausted mom, home with her baby and toddler, hears an intruder in the next room — or does she?
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Jul 06, 2019
Her poetry — some of it stashed in a drawer for years — was tempered by years of being a single mother and her Roman Catholic faith.
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Jul 06, 2019
Her poetry — some of it stashed in a drawer for years — was tempered by divorce, years of being a single mother and her Roman Catholic faith.
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Jul 06, 2019
Literary fiction is increasingly borrowing from the horror genre to explore the fears and anxieties of modern motherhood.
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Jul 05, 2019
Our critics Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai explain their choices; and Daniel Okrent discusses "The Guarded Gate," his history of America's immigration policy.
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Jul 05, 2019
Lisa Taddeo, the author of a much-anticipated book on the sex lives of three American women, learned some things about her own psyche, too.
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Jul 05, 2019
You might be surprised to learn how many authors on the current best-seller lists have had help — well, sort of — from their dogs.
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Jul 05, 2019
A selection of recent memoirs; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jul 05, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 05, 2019
His latest collection of stories, "Maggie Brown & Others," probes the fleeting connections of characters struggling to adjust to the rush of time.
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Jul 05, 2019
Kurt Tucholsky cloaked his despair over the rise of the Nazis in lighthearted satire. Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim explains.
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Jul 05, 2019
Letters to the Editor: Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 04, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 04, 2019
Pick up one of these to feel the sand beneath your toes and smell the salty, tangy ocean air.
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Jul 04, 2019
The former baseball commissioner, whose new memoir is "For the Good of the Game," was a voracious childhood reader, "mostly about sports," and especially "novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers."
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Jul 03, 2019
Everyone's got something to hide in this latest batch of summer thrillers, particularly the suburban mom at the heart of Denise Mina's "Conviction."
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Jul 03, 2019
In "The Ice at the End of the World," Jon Gertner recounts a sprawling history of adventurers and scientists who have tried to unlock the secrets of this vast polar expanse.
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Jul 03, 2019
In "I Like to Watch," Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker looks back on television's artistic high points and cultural influence over the past two decades.
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Jul 03, 2019
It remains a landmark in Berkeley, one of America's very best bookstores and worth an epic detour to visit.
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Jul 02, 2019
Clare Clark's novel "In the Full Light of the Sun" was inspired by a notorious forgery case that ensnared a famous art critic.
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Jul 02, 2019
"It just felt wrong and against the very nature of this series not to make the actual end as surprising as all the big deaths," Robert Kirkman wrote.
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Jul 02, 2019
"It just felt wrong and against the very nature of this series not to make the actual end as surprising as all the big deaths," Robert Kirkman wrote.
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Jul 02, 2019
"It just felt wrong and against the very nature of this series not to make the actual end as surprising as all the big deaths," Robert Kirkman wrote.
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Jul 02, 2019
The veteran reporter for The Daily Planet aims to prove that the pen can be mightier than any superhero. Even Superman.
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Jul 02, 2019
A movement supported by nonprofit groups and libraries is creating literary spaces in places where children find themselves with time on their hands.
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Jul 02, 2019
Chandler Baker's "Whisper Network" is a fierce and funny #MeToo thriller set in the corporate world.
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Jul 02, 2019
This new novel by Bruce Holsinger casts a satirical eye on competitive parenting and the privileged, cutthroat world of selective school admissions.
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Jul 02, 2019
The narrator of Howard Norman's "The Ghost Clause" is a recently dead husband, clinging to a house that now belongs to a newlywed couple.
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Jul 01, 2019
These picture books show young readers the historic journey of the first moon landing — and some of the 410,000 people who made it possible.
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Jul 01, 2019
On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, these picture books show young readers the historic journey — and some of the 410,000 people who made it possible.
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Jul 01, 2019
A new novel from Colson Whitehead, an oral history of World War II, heart-pounding thrillers and more.
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Jul 01, 2019
Amber Scorah's memoir, "Leaving the Witness," recounts a tale of disillusion and ultimate apostasy as she decides to turn away from the faith she's known since birth.
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