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Jun 25, 2018
Rebecca Makkai's novel "The Great Believers" ricochets between an era when AIDS was a death sentence and the present, when its shadow still looms.
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Jun 25, 2018
The astrophysicist and novelist Alan Lightman doesn't think so. And his new book, "Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine," explains why.
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Jun 24, 2018
The prolific Mr. Hall was also a memoirist, an essayist and a children's book author, not to mention a passionate Red Sox fan who wrote two books on baseball.
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Jun 24, 2018
If it seems as if everyone who worked for former President Barack Obama has a new book out, that's not far off the mark. And there are more to come.
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Jun 24, 2018
In "Turncoat," the independent historian Stephen Brumwell argues that Arnold's plot to foil the American Revolution was more complicated than it has previously appeared.
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Jun 22, 2018
Professor Baym was a key early figure in feminist literary history and criticism, excavating forgotten works by female writers.
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Jun 22, 2018
On this week's podcast, Joseph Crespino talks about "Atticus Finch: The Biography," and Philip Dray discusses "The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America."
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Jun 22, 2018
In "Uneasy Peace," Patrick Sharkey sees disparities when the homicide rate drops. The country is safer, but some people are now afraid of the police.
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Jun 22, 2018
Affecting stories by the Fan Brothers, Dan Santat and Minh Le, and more celebrate the bonds between grandparents and grandkids.
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Jun 22, 2018
Patricia O'Toole's "The Moralist" is the latest biography of Wilson, who has inspired fierce arguments ever since his death in 1924.
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Jun 22, 2018
They may be action-packed page turners — but these books also ask readers to consider very real social issues.
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Jun 22, 2018
Demand for Anthony Bourdain's memoir has soared since his death.
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Jun 22, 2018
"The Fair Chase," Philip Dray's illuminating history, recounts the evolution of American hunting from frontier vocation to competitive pastime.
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Jun 22, 2018
The deep woods and the drawing rooms of London are crime scenes in Marilyn Stasio's column. Also two villages, one in France and the other in England.
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Jun 22, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 22, 2018
The National Book Award-winning poet creates a graphic "verse" in response to the sociopolitical conundrums he tackles in his new book.
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Jun 22, 2018
These four masterly collections migrate from a plant nursery in Maine to a Buddhist temple in Japan, pursuing unlikely connections and flashes of enlightenment.
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Jun 22, 2018
Joseph O'Neill's story collection, "Good Trouble," features characters unlikely to be on the receiving end of a warmhearted learning experience.
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Jun 22, 2018
In his novel "A View of the Empire at Sunset," Caryl Phillips uses the difficult, lonely life of Jean Rhys to explore themes of alienation and exile.
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Jun 21, 2018
Rebekah Frumkin's debut, "The Comedown," is the drugs-and-crime tragedy of two Cleveland clans discovering the fluidity of life and of the self.
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Jun 21, 2018
An exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture captures what Oprah Winfrey and her TV show have meant.
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Jun 21, 2018
In her collection "Yeah No," Jane Gregory adopts an otherworldly voice like a medium channeling signals from the great elsewhere.
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Jun 21, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 21, 2018
In "Selfie," Will Storr searches for the roots of Western narcissism, a journey that takes him from a Scottish cloister to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
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Jun 21, 2018
The author Samantha Hunt, whose novel "The Seas" will be reissued in July, has started an apocalypse library: "I enjoy all these books. I just hope I'll never need them to survive."
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Jun 21, 2018
Peter Ackroyd's "Queer City" is an enticingly dishy and detailed tour of gay life in London, from the Roman era all the way through to the present.
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Jun 21, 2018
In "The End of the French Intellectual," Shlomo Sand argues the case that Muslims have replaced Jews as the country's most oppressed people.
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Jun 20, 2018
Matthew Dickman's new collection of poems, "Wonderland," revisits his teenage years.
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Jun 20, 2018
In "The Kevin Show," Mary Pilon chronicles Kevin Hall's long (and long-foiled) quest for Olympic gold in catamaran sailing.
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Jun 20, 2018
"By the time I found ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,' I'd already resigned myself to using books as windows rather than mirrors."
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Jun 20, 2018
Stephen Greenblatt's "Tyrant" finds parallels between our political world and that of the Elizabethans — and locates some very familiar characters.
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Jun 20, 2018
Nell Painter's "Old in Art School" and Aruna D'Souza's "Whitewalling" bring new energy and insight to questions that have long preoccupied the art world.
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Jun 20, 2018
A newly released role-playing game and a collection of interactive books give readers fresh places to explore J.K. Rowling's magical world.
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Jun 19, 2018
The debate is likely to grow more contentious as writers and professors take sides in this #MeToo era.
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Jun 19, 2018
In her debut, "The Map of Salt and Stars," Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar tells the story of two women, centuries apart, confronting war and exile.
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Jun 19, 2018
Centuries of subjugation weigh down the men and women of "There There," his quietly devastating debut.
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Jun 19, 2018
In "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," Terrance Hayes expresses ambivalence and grief for his country.
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Jun 19, 2018
Advocates see an opportunity to help prevent bigotry from taking root in children, but deciding the details has divided some communities.
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Jun 19, 2018
A treatise on immigration, an undocumented immigrant torn away from her son and a teenager's treacherous journey to reunite with his mother.
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Jun 19, 2018
Kitty Pryde was set to marry Piotr Rasputin, but Marvel threw a wrench into the story line, ending the issue with the union of a different couple.
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Jun 19, 2018
The best books to read to acquaint yourself with our northern neighbors.
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Jun 19, 2018
A selection of recent audiobooks; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jun 19, 2018
David E. Sanger's "The Perfect Weapon" is an encyclopedic account of developments in the cyberworld.
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Jun 19, 2018
"History of Violence," out this month in the U.S., is the writer's attempt to tell his own story of being raped and nearly murdered.
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Jun 18, 2018
"Border Districts" and "Stream System," by Gerald Murnane, reflect the author's forays into the inner reaches of his own mind.
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Jun 18, 2018
Tom Santopietro's "Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' Matters" is painstakingly researched, if substantively and structurally flawed, Roxane Gay writes.
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Jun 18, 2018
In his collection "Not Here," the poet Hieu Minh Nguyen makes art from his memories of racism and abuse.
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Jun 18, 2018
In her book "Futureface," Alex Wagner takes a skeptical look at companies that research our genetics only to hedge their bets in the fine print.
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Jun 18, 2018
In his new book, Richard Rhodes makes his way through four centuries of energy use, from oil to nuclear, and how each innovation has changed the world.
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Jun 18, 2018
In "Asperger's Children," Edith Sheffer explores the roots of autism, first diagnosed in Nazi Germany as the regime engaged in a program of child euthanasia.
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Jun 18, 2018
In "Asperger's Children," Edith Sheffer explores the roots of autism, first diagnosed in Nazi Germany as the regime engaged in a program of child euthanasia.
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Jun 18, 2018
In Joe Mungo Reed's debut novel, "We Begin Our Ascent," a cyclist competing in the Tour de France gets wrapped up in the complicated costs of possible victory.
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Jun 18, 2018
Joseph Crespino's "biography" of the virtuous lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and the real man he was modeled after, brings to life the inconsistencies of the South.
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Jun 18, 2018
Tom Santopietro's "Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' Matters" is painstakingly researched, if substantively and structurally flawed.
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Jun 17, 2018
In "Twilight of the Gods," Steven Hyden writes about what a generation of music gave to the culture — and whether any of it can last.
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Jun 15, 2018
For nearly 40 years, Mr. Reese shaped tastes, cultivated collectors and advised museums and libraries from his by-appointment-only store in New Haven.
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Jun 15, 2018
In "The Solitary Twin," by Harry Mathews, fractured identities come together in small, miraculous revelations that never feel contrived at all.
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Jun 15, 2018
Mr. Reid, a member of the Stop Watch Gang, later found success as a writer, but he was never able to fully leave his past behind.
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Jun 15, 2018
Carl Zimmer discusses "She Has Her Mother's Laugh," and Henry Alford talks about "And Then We Danced."
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Jun 15, 2018
Building buzz and raising cash — the publishing social circuit is good for more than free booze.
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Jun 15, 2018
They range from terrifying to hilarious.
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Jun 15, 2018
The 6-year-old narrator of Rhiannon Navin's debut, "Only Child," tries to decipher the grief that transforms his parents.
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Jun 15, 2018
In "You All Grow Up and Leave Me," Piper Weiss remembers an infamous attack in the 1990s, and the man who was allowed to get alarmingly close to the female students who idolized him.
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Jun 15, 2018
Lynne Murphy's "The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English" depicts nations divided by a common language.
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Jun 15, 2018
That's the question Catherine Steadman explores in her tense debut thriller, "Something in the Water."
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Jun 15, 2018
"The Great Revolt," by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, allows Trump backers to speak in their own voices.
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Jun 15, 2018
A new book charts the effects of climate change while two others return readers to the great age of Arctic and Antarctic exploration.
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Jun 15, 2018
In "The Girl From Kathmandu," Cam Simpson investigates the deaths of a dozen laborers en route to an American military base where they had never intended to go.
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Jun 15, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jun 15, 2018
Reading to his son, who has cerebral palsy, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher discovers the many-layered pleasures of sharing an experience that is inherently private.
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Jun 15, 2018
Reading to a child with cerebral palsy, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher discovers the many-layered pleasures of sharing an experience that is inherently private.
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Jun 15, 2018
Grant Snider provides an illustrated reminder of what happens when kids are left to roam the stacks of a library.
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Jun 15, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jun 14, 2018
In "Agatha Christie," by Laura Thompson, the author's work is quoted extensively but little attention is given to how she committed all those murders.
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Jun 14, 2018
In "Air Traffic," the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo grapples with a complicated family legacy.
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Jun 14, 2018
I set out to write a warm, whimsical book about a black girl's hair. Twenty years on, that's still a powerful subject.
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Jun 14, 2018
Beyond the Battery and the Great White Way lies Broadway's less-traveled northern stretch: Manhattan's Inwood section. A walking tour and photo essay reveal its treasures.
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Jun 14, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Lisa Zeidner's review of "The Country Life."
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Jun 14, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 14, 2018
The celebrated physicist's journal during an international tour of China, Japan and other countries in the 1920s displays a "clear hallmark of racism," an editor said.
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Jun 14, 2018
In the New Yorker critic's contemplative new novel, "Upstate," a despairing philosopher, her father and her sister reflect on life's big questions.
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Jun 14, 2018
Benjamin Carter Hett's "The Death of Democracy" traces the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Third Reich.
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Jun 14, 2018
Michael Ondaatje, whose most recent novel is "Warlight," loves characters "on the periphery": "Convicts, abandoned lovers, the dog that pulled someone out of quicksand."
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Jun 13, 2018
Farmer brought a scientific approach to cooking, taught countless women marketable skills, and wrote a cookbook that defined American food for the 20th century.
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Jun 13, 2018
Carolyn Waters runs New York City's oldest library, and is a den mother to the many writers who flock there to work.
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Jun 13, 2018
They're all fodder for Richard Russo in his first nonfiction collection, "The Destiny Thief."
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Jun 13, 2018
In his latest book, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now," the virtual-reality pioneer Jaron Lanier argues that social media companies are turning us into robotic extensions of their machines.
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Jun 13, 2018
Eliza Griswold's "Amity and Prosperity" follows a single mother's fight against the impact of fracking in her Pennsylvania county.
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Jun 13, 2018
In these excerpts from his idiosyncratic biography, "Room to Dream," Mr. Lynch offers insights into his work on "Dangerous," "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet."
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Jun 13, 2018
Hersh's memoir, "Reporter," describes his fruitful, if acrimonious, relationships with the editors and publications in his life, including The Times.
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Jun 12, 2018
In "The Shepherd's Hut," Tim Winton finds poetry and beauty in the country's interior saltlands and in a young teenager hardened by life.
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Jun 12, 2018
James and Deborah Fallows, flying around in a small propeller airplane, embarked on a years-long journey to the heartland of America, which they recount in "Our Towns."
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Jun 12, 2018
In her new book, the sociologist Arlene Stein follows four subjects connected by their experiences at a Florida clinic for gender affirmation surgery.
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Jun 12, 2018
"All Gates Open," a biography of the experimental German rock band, traces a legacy of six-hour concerts, wild spontaneity and "telepathic" grooves.
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Jun 12, 2018
In "Eisenhower vs. Warren," James F. Simon asks whether stronger leadership would have led to wider acceptance of Brown v. Board of Education.
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Jun 12, 2018
In Melissa Broder's novel, "The Pisces," a depressed graduate student meets her fairy-tale prince — who happens to be half fish.
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Jun 11, 2018
"Convenience Store Woman," a much anticipated English-language debut, captures unconventional thinking in Japan's conformist society.
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Jun 11, 2018
Spicy Korean sauces provide the grilling inspiration in a new cookbook from Bill Kim, the Chicago chef and restaurateur.
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Jun 11, 2018
"Something in the Water" is a chilly thriller by Catherine Steadman, who played Mabel Lane Fox on "Downton Abbey."
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Jun 11, 2018
In "The Strange Order of Things," Antonio Damasio makes a case for the centrality of emotion in our understanding of life on earth and how we came to be.
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