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Sep 25, 2021
Thirty years after she testified before the Senate, the law professor talks about the experience, sexual harassment and her growing impatience with the slow pace of change.
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Sep 25, 2021
The Nobel laureate, whose new novel, "Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth," is his first in nearly 50 years, refuses to back down when he senses that his homeland's freedom is under threat.
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Sep 24, 2021
A Southerner who became a radical at Berkeley, he argued that democracy developed in America as a response to the emergence of industrial capitalism.
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Sep 24, 2021
As he neared 80, the travel writer Colin Thubron took a trip along the 10th longest river in the world, chronicled in "The Amur River."
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Sep 24, 2021
Kennedy discusses his new essay collection, and Mary Roach talks about "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law."
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Sep 24, 2021
For the 125th anniversary of the Book Review, we revisit the time Teddy Roosevelt gushed on our front cover about a book he loved.
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Sep 24, 2021
"Thao," "Otto: A Palindrama," "My Monster Moofy" and "The Wordy Book" explore myriad worlds within words.
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Sep 24, 2021
"Cloud Cuckoo Land," Doerr's first novel since "All the Light We Cannot See," unites five characters over a millennium in a tribute to books and those who love them.
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Sep 24, 2021
"When We Cease to Understand the World," by Benjamín Labatut, considers the fine line between the brilliance and darkness of human advancement.
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Sep 24, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 24, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 23, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 23, 2021
In "The Sleeping Beauties," Suzanne O'Sullivan examines those poorly understood conditions that fall at the tangled intersection of body and mind, like mysterious outbreaks of mass illness.
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Sep 23, 2021
Basketball and tennis are the subjects of two top titles written by stars in their own fields.
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Sep 23, 2021
"My wife gave me the first edition of Tolstoy's ‘War and Peace' to be published in English (in 1886). That the edition was in translation was just as well, since I don't read a word of Russian."
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Sep 22, 2021
Plan your TV itinerary.
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Sep 22, 2021
The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.
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Sep 22, 2021
A selection of books published this week.
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Sep 21, 2021
In a revealing new biography, "The Contrarian," the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel's ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and beliefs.
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Sep 21, 2021
Joseph J. Ellis's "The Cause" and Gordon S. Wood's "Power and Liberty" argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.
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Sep 21, 2021
Slaughter's "Renewal" looks at how a personal transformation can lead to broader social change.
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Sep 21, 2021
The two women are joining Zando, an independent publishing company founded last year that plans to work with authors and sell books in unconventional ways.
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Sep 21, 2021
The two women are joining Zando, an independent publishing company founded last year that plans to work with authors and sell books in unconventional ways.
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Sep 21, 2021
The Pulitzer Prize winner's latest novel, "Bewilderment," features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race.
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Sep 21, 2021
"The Wrong End of the Telescope," by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine, examines the relationship between Middle Eastern refugees and their Western rescuers with clear eyes and trenchant humor.
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Sep 21, 2021
Three new historical novels remind us how what happened in days, and centuries, gone by connects to the world today.
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Sep 21, 2021
"The Body Scout," "Light From Uncommon Stars" and "No Gods, No Monsters" tell stories of genetic dystopias, musical gifts and mythic creatures.
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Sep 21, 2021
In "You Bet Your Life," Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
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Sep 21, 2021
Amia Srinivasan's brilliant essays urge us to think more fully about sex, as a personal experience with social implications.
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Sep 21, 2021
Why do so many female body parts honor male scientists?
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Sep 20, 2021
"The Morning Star" chews on big ideas about God and mortality while its characters react to a bright and eerie new presence above them.
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Sep 19, 2021
In "The Book of Form and Emptiness," the characters are so preoccupied with material possessions that objects come to life all around them.
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Sep 18, 2021
In "Generation Occupy," Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.
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Sep 17, 2021
A plan to archive the resource, used by many artists, including Warhol, has been shelved.
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Sep 17, 2021
Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses "The Magician."
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Sep 17, 2021
In "Peril," Woodward and his co-writer Robert Costa take readers up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the early days of the Biden administration.
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Sep 17, 2021
This year's fiction longlist includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, a 2020 nominee in the poetry category, as well as Richard Powers, who also made the Booker Prize shortlist this week.
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Sep 17, 2021
‘I just think that's what being a New Yorker is all about, being hungry for more,' said Noah Syndergaard, an avid reader.
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Sep 17, 2021
‘I just think that's what being a New Yorker is all about, being hungry for more,' said Noah Syndergaard, an avid reader.
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Sep 17, 2021
Thomas Mann spent the years during World War I composing "Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man," an idiosyncratic assault on democracy and reason that was recently reissued. The book's political ideas are of little use, Christopher Beha writes, but Mann's critique of how democracies enlist writers to serve as their social conscience resonates forcefully today.
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Sep 17, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 17, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 17, 2021
In "The Beatryce Prophecy," a young girl is hunted by the king because of a prophecy that she will unseat him.
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Sep 17, 2021
"Kaleidoscope" is the stuff of dreams — glittering shards of a wondrously ungraspable story.
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Sep 16, 2021
Reflections on brownness, stories about migrant workers and queer immigrants, postcolonial poems — and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 16, 2021
"The 1619 Project" expands its Pulitzer Prize-winning argument about our nation's origins, Huma Abedin reflects on her life, and other titles imagine our post-Covid future.
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Sep 16, 2021
Martha S. Jones, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, will write four books for Basic Books, starting with an exploration of the history and legacy of slavery's sexual violence.
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Sep 16, 2021
Watch for new memoirs from Gabrielle Union and Alan Cumming, Jamie Foxx's reflections on parenthood, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
The first major study of Oscar Wilde in decades, the conclusion of a "magisterial" series on Pablo Picasso, and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
New novels from Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr, a political thriller by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, a Korean murder mystery — and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
A deeply reported look at the woman behind Roe vs. Wade, an investigation of lawbreaking animals, another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson — and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
Look for reflections from Katie Couric, Stanley Tucci and Joy Harjo — and more.
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Sep 16, 2021
There are novels about Black boys finding joy, nervy thrillers, fantasies filled with magic, angsty romances and much, much more.
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Sep 16, 2021
The author of "All the Light We Cannot See" has a new novel, "Cloud Cuckoo Land," that seeks to tell a sprawling story linking past, present and future.
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Sep 16, 2021
In this world filled, sometimes, with more breakdowns than breaks, it feels sometimes an anachronism to hear anybody say they love somebody deeply.
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Sep 16, 2021
Three new memoirs traverse the rocky terrain between illness and everyday life.
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Sep 16, 2021
A murder mystery on a London houseboat, a 16th-century Pacific voyage, and a deep dive into humans' relationships with animals.
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Sep 16, 2021
Four new titles either allude to the elusive commodity or grab it by the shoulders and pin it onto the page.
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Sep 16, 2021
"They stopped speaking to him after he wrote some pretty cruel stuff about my mom in a story published in Esquire in 1975. I wouldn't want Truman to stay very long though, and he couldn't have any alcohol. Actually let's make it Truman circa 1966, not the bloated Truman of 1975."
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Sep 15, 2021
Some seasonal constants (and variables).
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Sep 15, 2021
In "The Platform Delusion," Jonathan Knee takes apart the magical aura that surrounds one of Silicon Valley's biggest conceptual exports.
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Sep 15, 2021
Titles that the houses signed in 2020 are now entering the world, with authors, agents and editors anxious to see how they do.
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Sep 15, 2021
When readers rushed to buy books about race and racism last year, publishers took notice. Now some of the titles they signed are entering the world, with authors, agents and editors anxious to see how they do.
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Sep 15, 2021
A grieving astrobiologist bemoans the state of the planet while raising his sensitive 9-year-old son in Powers's new novel.
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Sep 15, 2021
A grieving astrobiologist bemoans the state of the planet while raising his sensitive 9-year-old son in Powers's new novel.
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Sep 15, 2021
A selection of books published this week.
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Sep 14, 2021
An excerpt from "Fuzz," by Mary Roach
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Sep 14, 2021
In a sign of his concerns, the nation's highest-ranking military officer also gathered commanders to remind them of the safeguards in the nuclear launch procedures.
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Sep 14, 2021
This year's shortlist includes novels by Nadifa Mohamed, Patricia Lockwood, Damon Galgut and Anuk Arudpragasam. A winner will be named in November.
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Sep 14, 2021
In "Hurts So Good," Leigh Cowart explores the science and culture of masochism, from the competitive pepper-eater to the ultramarathoner to sex of a certain variety.
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Sep 14, 2021
This year's shortlist includes novels by Nadifa Mohamed, Patricia Lockwood, Damon Galgut and Anuk Arudpragasam. A winner will be named in November.
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Sep 14, 2021
"Civilizations," by Laurent Binet, imagines a counterhistory of the Spanish conquests.
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Sep 14, 2021
In her memoir, "The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree," Nice Leng'ete tells the story of her courageous fight against female genital mutilation.
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Sep 14, 2021
"Palmares" — her first novel since 1999's "Mosquito" — is an emancipation story set in 17th-century Brazil.
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Sep 14, 2021
In her second memoir, "You Got Anything Stronger?," the actor bares her struggles with fertility, rape, aging and grief.
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Sep 14, 2021
"Of Fear and Strangers," by George Makari, examines the history of xenophobia, its evolution in modern times and how we might combat it.
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Sep 14, 2021
In "Travels With George," a book that's part history and part travelogue, Philbrick retraces Washington's steps in an effort to understand America's problems then and now.
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Sep 14, 2021
"Talk to Me" tracks the complex relationships among a professor, his undergraduate assistant and a chimp who knows sign language.
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Sep 14, 2021
In Vince Passaro's new novel, "Crazy Sorrow," two college students meet in 1976. Their story spans decades.
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Sep 14, 2021
"Harlem Shuffle" luxuriates in the seedy spaces of late night, "when the straight world slept and the bent got to work."
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Sep 14, 2021
Samuel Moyn's "Humane" explores America's enthusiasm for making wars more humane even if it assures us of future wars.
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Sep 14, 2021
In "Fuzz," Mary Roach explores the tricky terrain where humans and wildlife overlap and often collide.
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Sep 13, 2021
His Pulitzer-winning novel, "The Overstory," left him so drained that he didn't know whether he would write again. His new book, "Bewilderment," came to him when he imagined a child talking to him in a forest.
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Sep 13, 2021
In his new book, Max Chafkin narrates the secretive tech mogul's life and tries to understand what he stands for.
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Sep 13, 2021
In Natasha Brown's slim debut novel, "Assembly," the social critique matters more than the plot.
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Sep 13, 2021
Dictionaries reward you for paying attention, both to the things you consume and to your own curiosity.
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Sep 13, 2021
In "I Was Never the First Lady," the protagonist sets out to find the mother who abandoned her, and Cuba, long ago.
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Sep 12, 2021
After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky's shared home in St. Petersburg, a rare grass-roots victory in Russia.
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Sep 12, 2021
In "Apples Never Fall," the author of "Nine Perfect Strangers" and "Big Little Lies" serves readers the tale of a missing mother and tennis pro.
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Sep 12, 2021
From Chaucer to Don DeLillo and Lauren Groff, nuns in literature have served a variety of functions — not least, Claire Luchette writes, as the authors' stays against mortal agony.
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Sep 12, 2021
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks about her new novel, "Savage Tongues," in which two friends help each other deal with personal and political traumas.
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Sep 10, 2021
Consider 9/11's effects on American culture.
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Sep 10, 2021
A hotel heist is at the center of "Harlem Shuffle," but the deeper sin is America's handling of race and the decline of a thriving midcentury community.
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Sep 10, 2021
Taylor talks about Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You," and David Rooney discusses "About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks."
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Sep 10, 2021
Three book-length fairy tales — by Tom Gauld, Nadja Spiegelman and Ole Könnecke — take common ingredients and whip them into fresh new stories.
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Sep 10, 2021
Competition is intense for authors writing about the last administration.
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Sep 10, 2021
Tarana Burke discusses her new memoir, "Unbound," and how she turned away from one movement to found another.
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Sep 10, 2021
In "Survival of the City," Edward Glaeser and David Cutler explore a range of issues that will affect how our urban areas will look into the future.
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Sep 10, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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