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Jun 12, 2021
In P.J. Vernon's new thriller, "Bath Haus," the protagonist's decision to cheat on his partner spirals into nerve-racking terror.
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Jun 11, 2021
Sasha Issenberg talks about "The Engagement," and J. Hoberman discusses the story of Hollywood as told through 10 books.
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Jun 11, 2021
Louise Erdrich won the fiction prize for her novel "The Night Watchman." Here are the 2021 contenders for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
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Jun 11, 2021
Louise Erdrich won the fiction prize for her novel "The Night Watchman." Here are the 2021 winners for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
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Jun 11, 2021
In "The Extended Mind" Annie Murphy Paul explores all the ways our thinking is shaped by external forces, from physical sensations to the role of other people and their brains.
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Jun 11, 2021
In "The Bench," the Duchess of Sussex takes on "the special relationship" of fathers and sons, and the daunting challenge of rhyming verse.
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Jun 11, 2021
The French heist thriller was a huge global hit when it debuted on Netflix in January. Even the creator and cast were surprised.
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Jun 11, 2021
Want to learn more about how the movies were made? These books are a good place to start.
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Jun 11, 2021
In Jamika Ajalon's "Skye Papers," a young nomad falls in with a group of artists and bohemians. But not all is as it seems.
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Jun 11, 2021
Murders abound in new novels from James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura McHugh and Leonardo Padura.
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Jun 11, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 11, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 10, 2021
Amanda Kloots grieved in public when her husband Nick Cordero died. Now she is sharing the rest of her story in "Live Your Life."
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Jun 10, 2021
A married couple makes a suicide pact in Lionel Shriver's new novel, "Should We Stay or Should We Go."
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Jun 10, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 10, 2021
A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner loves Michael Connelly's hero Harry Bosch — but adds, "I don't have a favorite villain."
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Jun 10, 2021
The production also has a new management team to replace Scott Rudin, who stepped aside after allegations of abusive behavior.
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Jun 10, 2021
Amanda Kloots grieved in public when her husband Nick Cordero died. Now she is sharing the rest of her story in "Live Your Life."
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Jun 10, 2021
The author of "The Fault in Our Stars" is back on the best seller list with his first book for adults. This time, he's telling readers who he is.
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Jun 09, 2021
There's no need to rush.
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Jun 09, 2021
Jeff Shesol's "Mercury Rising" explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.
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Jun 09, 2021
"The Every," a follow-up to his hit book "The Circle," will be available in independent bookstores in October. The paperback will arrive just six weeks later, but the hardcover will remain exclusive to independent stores.
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Jun 09, 2021
"All That She Carried," by the historian Tiya Miles, digs deep into a singular object given by an enslaved woman to her daughter in the mid-19th century.
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Jun 08, 2021
"Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" sets a literal witch hunt in 17th-century Germany.
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Jun 08, 2021
"The President's Daughter" is set in motion with a kidnapping, and then a paramilitary operation is put together in response.
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Jun 08, 2021
He and his wife wrote an admired translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy," and he began an innovative project to digitize centuries of scholarly commentary.
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Jun 08, 2021
"Forget the Alamo," by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and "A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles," by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.
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Jun 08, 2021
From a grisly '90s true-crime story to slapstick comedy to family heartbreak, these narrators know how to keep your attention.
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Jun 08, 2021
Paul Mendez's debut novel, "Rainbow Milk," traces the legacy of one family's decision to leave the Caribbean.
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Jun 08, 2021
Currently the associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, she takes over in September from Tim Griffin as executive director and chief curator.
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Jun 08, 2021
An excerpt from "Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir," by Akwaeke Emezi
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Jun 08, 2021
An excerpt from "Animal," by Lisa Taddeo
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Jun 08, 2021
Three cross-cultural narratives in Rupert Thomson's new novel paint a picture of Barcelona during the early 2000s.
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Jun 08, 2021
The British scholar Elinor Cleghorn's new history traces medicine's sexism from Hippocrates to today.
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Jun 08, 2021
In "Hola Papi," the writer John Paul Brammer mines his own experiences and traumas to deliver wisdom for queer readers.
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Jun 08, 2021
In "The Profession," Bratton, with his co-author, Peter Knobler, offers an engaging account of his half-century in law enforcement.
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Jun 08, 2021
In "Life on the Line," Emma Goldberg takes readers behind the hospital curtains in New York City at the peak of the pandemic.
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Jun 08, 2021
Carlo Rovelli's "Helgoland" explores the world of the smallest particles and asks what makes them unique.
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Jun 08, 2021
The story collection "Transmutation" follows protagonists across the gender spectrum filling their days with TV, Twitter and revenge.
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Jun 08, 2021
Anne Sebba's new biography tells the story of a fanatical Communist and loving mother who went to her death proclaiming her innocence.
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Jun 08, 2021
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jun 08, 2021
A time-traveling feline helps solve a Renaissance art mystery in "Da Vinci's Cat," by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
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Jun 08, 2021
A Filipino American girl who's afraid of falling tackles the tree in her new backyard in "Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey."
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Jun 07, 2021
With help from Harry Potter, the Magic School Bus and the Baby-Sitters Club, he created the largest publisher and distributor of children's books.
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Jun 07, 2021
Burns, the first Black female C.E.O. of a Fortune 500 company, tells her story in "Where You Are Is Not Who You Are."
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Jun 07, 2021
"Dear Senthuran" is an epistolary memoir of gender identity, diaspora and the solitude of success.
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Jun 07, 2021
In "The Plague Year," Lawrence Wright tells the story of the pandemic that upended all of our lives — both the failures to combat it, and the science that saved us.
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Jun 07, 2021
The author of "Goodbye, Columbus" and "The Human Stain" left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public.
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Jun 06, 2021
The century-old Drama Book Shop in Manhattan struggled for years. Then "Hamilton" happened.
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Jun 06, 2021
In "Ravenous," Sam Apple tells the story of a researcher who was able to carry out his groundbreaking work on cancer cells even in the middle of World War II.
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Jun 05, 2021
A rabbi, educator and author of a landmark book, he asked, "How can Jews believe in an omnipotent, beneficent God after Auschwitz."
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Jun 04, 2021
An Austrian, she was among the most decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, producing a large body of daring work.
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Jun 04, 2021
Francis Spufford talks about "Light Perpetual," and Egill Bjarnason discusses "How Iceland Changed the World."
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Jun 04, 2021
Swimming pools and summer TV.
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Jun 04, 2021
Lisa Taddeo's first novel, "Animal," tells a relentlessly bleak story of a woman warped by psychic wounds who pursues a life of emotional carnage.
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Jun 04, 2021
Francis Spufford talks about "Light Perpetual," and Egill Bjarnason discusses "How Iceland Changed the World."
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Jun 04, 2021
Grant Snider offers a visual guide to telling that voice inside your head to shut it.
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Jun 04, 2021
In "Finding Junie Kim," a third-generation Korean-American girl gathers strength from her grandmother's wartime tales to deal with anti-Asian racism.
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Jun 04, 2021
Created by the artist Sophia Al-Maria, the new series resituates Nin's erotic short story collection in 1955 Morocco, a year before the country threw off its colonialist yoke.
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Jun 04, 2021
His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn't be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives.
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Jun 04, 2021
For many people, after more than a year of the pandemic, travel feels like something to dread. But it can still mean liberation, the author and psychologist argues.
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Jun 04, 2021
Lisa Taddeo's first novel, "Animal," tells a relentlessly bleak story of a woman warped by psychic wounds who pursues a life of emotional carnage.
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Jun 04, 2021
In "Home Made," a writer looks back on the many dinners she cooked and ate with residents of a Boston home for adolescents.
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Jun 04, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 04, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 03, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 03, 2021
"I've held onto it the way you hold on to something you love," King said about the novel, which has been reimagined as an eight-part series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen.
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Jun 03, 2021
I do not know anyone who lost a home or feared death as fires blazed in California or Australia. There is not really a name for that ignorance. This poem, though, erases a bit of it.
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Jun 03, 2021
"All I wanted to do was live like the French."
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Jun 03, 2021
St. Aubyn's new novel, "Double Blind," examines a wide range of scientific thought, with detours into sex, drugs and venture capital.
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Jun 03, 2021
The best-selling author of "Beach Read" and "People We Meet on Vacation" is generous with her wisdom on Instagram.
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Jun 03, 2021
A new book enters that category known as "fashion horror stories." Something to consider before you shop.
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Jun 02, 2021
Welcome, again.
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Jun 02, 2021
As head of Pantheon, he nurtured prize winners and best sellers, rescued Joseph Mitchell from obscurity and helped establish graphic novels as a literary genre.
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Jun 02, 2021
"The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu," by Tom Lin, is a vengeance quest in an unforgiving landscape during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Jun 02, 2021
"At Night All Blood Is Black," a novel written by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis, had already received rave reviews.
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Jun 02, 2021
Kyle Lukoff's "Too Bright to See" relates a first-person story of transgender identity.
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Jun 02, 2021
"The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu," by Tom Lin, is a vengeance quest in an unforgiving landscape during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Jun 02, 2021
"Journey to the Edge of Reason," by Stephen Budiansky, is an illuminating new biography of the groundbreaking mathematician.
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Jun 01, 2021
Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for "indecency," saying his life is an important part of Britain's history.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "A Sense of Self," the psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane flashes narrative skill in exploring the science and mystery of memory.
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Jun 01, 2021
Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for "indecency," saying his life is an important part of Britain's history.
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Jun 01, 2021
A detailed history of the fight for same-sex marriage, Sasha Issenberg's "The Engagement" casts fresh light on the role of conservative churches in compelling gay rights activists to embrace the issue as a cause.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "How the Word Is Passed," the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "Malibu Rising," Taylor Jenkins Reid surfs a wave of fame, dysfunction and sibling forbearance.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "Somebody's Daughter," the author learns the father she's barely known is finally coming home, after 25 years in prison.
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Jun 01, 2021
"A Ghost in the Throat," by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem.
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Jun 01, 2021
Reflections on the languages of migration, from Claudio Lomnitz, Michelle Zauner and Quiara Alegría Hudes.
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Jun 01, 2021
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jun 01, 2021
Romance, self-discovery and a celebration of identity: Magic is in the air in these comic books and graphic novels, out now through September.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "How the Word Is Passed," the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "An American Marriage," Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other's throat.
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Jun 01, 2021
A new book gives readers a look at how people raise their glasses around the world.
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Jun 01, 2021
"The Divorce," Aira's newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "With Teeth," two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
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Jun 01, 2021
Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in "Pure Flame" the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman.
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Jun 01, 2021
In Nicola Yoon's book "Instructions for Dancing," a teenager who doesn't believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
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Jun 01, 2021
Donald A. Ritchie's "The Columnist" describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
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Jun 01, 2021
In "With Teeth," two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
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Jun 01, 2021
"The Confidence Men," by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.
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