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Jan 23, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 23, 2025
The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he shares a detailed and personal account of his decades dealing with China.
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Jan 23, 2025
The novelist is 75. Rusty Sabich, the now-retired prosecutor he introduced in "Presumed Innocent," is 77 — and taking on a new case in "Presumed Guilty."
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Jan 23, 2025
An adaptation of "Fatherland," the best-selling novelist's first solo work, "sets my teeth on edge," he admits. His newest book, "Precipice," is about a former British prime minister in love.
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Jan 23, 2025
In "Bright Circle," Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.
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Jan 22, 2025
A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.
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Jan 22, 2025
Chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine adventure novels exquisitely capture the atmosphere of the season.
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Jan 21, 2025
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.
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Jan 21, 2025
Hilary Mantel's "The Mirror and the Light," a new "Bridget Jones" and Michael Bond's Paddington Bear series are some of this year's most anticipated adaptations.
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Jan 21, 2025
In "Dark Laboratory," Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer's conquest of the Caribbean.
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Jan 21, 2025
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
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Jan 20, 2025
Details are in Caleb Femi's new poetry collection, "The Wickedest."
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Jan 20, 2025
"Somewhere Toward Freedom" tells the story of Sherman's March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
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Jan 20, 2025
Mike Mignola's "Bowling With Corpses" is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.
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Jan 19, 2025
In a vibrant collection of "essays on the future that never was," Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of the 2000s.
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Jan 19, 2025
Marcus Chown's "A Crack in Everything" is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.
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Jan 19, 2025
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.
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Jan 18, 2025
"The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,'" said the actress and author, "and all those songs, every single one, is amazing."
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Jan 18, 2025
Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II.
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Jan 18, 2025
Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.
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Jan 17, 2025
The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, "Aflame," about his stays at a California monastery.
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Jan 17, 2025
In "Farewell to Manzanar," she wrote about the more than three years she and her family spent in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie.
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Jan 17, 2025
With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.
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Jan 17, 2025
In "Helen of Troy, 1993," the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.
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Jan 17, 2025
In H.M. Bouwman's wise and heartbreaking "Scattergood," the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.
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Jan 17, 2025
The Nobel laureate's new novel, "We Do Not Part," revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history.
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Jan 16, 2025
As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.
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Jan 16, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 16, 2025
In "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You," the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that have shaped her career.
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Jan 16, 2025
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
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Jan 16, 2025
In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.
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Jan 16, 2025
His new novel is titled after Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," he says, "given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book."
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Jan 15, 2025
By day, he helped run an autism center he opened in a suburb of Paris. In the evening, he delighted audiences as a clown named Buffo. In between, he wrote novels.
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Jan 15, 2025
In "Open Socrates," the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.
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Jan 15, 2025
Tom Lamont's debut novel, "Going Home," considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.
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Jan 15, 2025
In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits. "Clothes matter — especially when you get old," he says.
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Jan 14, 2025
"I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone," said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.
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Jan 14, 2025
In "The Secret History of the Rape Kit," Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it.
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Jan 14, 2025
In "What Happened to the McCrays?" middle-aged high school sweethearts share an unbearable history.
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Jan 14, 2025
The novel "A Calamity of Noble Houses" tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families across four generations.
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Jan 14, 2025
Grady Hendrix's new novel, "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls," is a timely look at the mistreatment of women, with a dose of horror, monsters and magic.
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Jan 13, 2025
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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Jan 13, 2025
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
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Jan 13, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Jan 13, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Jan 13, 2025
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit's schools and the case's relevance today.
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Jan 13, 2025
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
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Jan 13, 2025
In John Dufresne's new book, "My Darling Boy," a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids.
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Jan 13, 2025
Aria Aber's exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin's nightworld.
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Jan 12, 2025
He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.
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Jan 12, 2025
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet.
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Jan 12, 2025
In "The Woman Who Knew Everyone," Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography of Perle Mesta, Washington's colorful, and oft-mocked, "hostess with the mostes'."
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Jan 12, 2025
In Nnedi Okorafor's new novel, "Death of the Author," a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art after her book becomes a life-changing hit.
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Jan 11, 2025
Molly recommends Annie Ernaux's photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist's study of the moments when conflict turns violent.
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Jan 11, 2025
MAGA has turned "the administrative state" into a battle cry.
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Jan 11, 2025
Our columnist on the month's most exciting releases.
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Jan 10, 2025
The latest from a Nobel laureate, a "Hunger Games" prequel and more.
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Jan 10, 2025
In "The Sinners All Bow," Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster's instincts to a 19th-century murder.
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Jan 10, 2025
Samrat Upadhyay's new novel, "Darkmotherland," is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.
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Jan 10, 2025
The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar's Gothic thriller "Vantage Point" try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.
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Jan 09, 2025
When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.
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Jan 09, 2025
When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.
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Jan 09, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 09, 2025
Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book "The Truth in the Light." Here are some of them.
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Jan 09, 2025
He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real.
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Jan 09, 2025
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here's a supplementary guide.
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Jan 09, 2025
In "We Tried to Tell Y'All," Meredith D. Clark chronicles the heyday of Black Twitter.
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Jan 09, 2025
Caryl Phillips's new novel, "Another Man in the Street," follows an immigrant who arrives in 1960s London.
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Jan 09, 2025
"I'm very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books," says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls "Frankie" his "first happy romance."
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Jan 09, 2025
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
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Jan 08, 2025
When cats bite or scratch, they're trying to tell you something. Wilbourn, a cat therapist, was a pioneer in the art of listening to them.
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Jan 08, 2025
Nearly six years after becoming a literary heavyweight with "Read with Jenna," she's starting her own publishing venture with Penguin Random House.
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Jan 07, 2025
"The Lady of the Mine," by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia's 2014 invasion.
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Jan 07, 2025
In her lively debut novel, "How to Sleep at Night," Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay couple dials up the campaign rhetoric.
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Jan 07, 2025
In Adam Haslett's "Mothers and Sons," crisis reconnects an asylum lawyer and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a women's retreat.
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Jan 06, 2025
Tips from writers, artists and a social worker that might make the practice less daunting.
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Jan 06, 2025
A new book traces shifts in the nation's treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.
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Jan 06, 2025
Her new novella, "Rosarita," takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, "I feel utterly at home there."
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Jan 05, 2025
Adam Ross's "Playworld" is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.
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Jan 05, 2025
The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of "The Reader," explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.
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Jan 04, 2025
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York's downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
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Jan 04, 2025
A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.
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Jan 04, 2025
In "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus," a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents' marriage.
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Jan 03, 2025
She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.
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Jan 03, 2025
The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged "bigoted" language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.
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Jan 03, 2025
His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.
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Jan 03, 2025
Not in this universe, a new study concludes.
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Jan 03, 2025
Your imaginary audience has a note taped to them: "I can't read. I can't talk. I don't care about stories, plots or characters. What do you have for me?"
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Jan 03, 2025
His new book, "Aflame," tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. "You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely," he wrote.
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Jan 03, 2025
Karissa Chen's debut, "Homeseeking," follows two childhood sweethearts who meet in Shanghai, and whose lives are upended by the forces of history.
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Jan 02, 2025
In "The Waiting Game," the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII's queens.
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Jan 02, 2025
You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.
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Jan 02, 2025
The author of "The Note" traces her "real obsession" to discovering "a slew of smart, gritty female sleuths who began to feel like friends."
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Jan 01, 2025
In Kate Fagan's novel, "The Three Lives of Cate Kay," a best-selling writer decides to reveal the tragedy behind her success.
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Jan 01, 2025
In "Embers of the Hands," the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.
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Dec 31, 2024
In "You'll Never Believe Me," Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp and very funny memoir.
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Dec 31, 2024
Rebecca Kauffman's fifth novel, "I'll Come to You," is a "Corrections"-esque tale of one clan's dysfunctions and joys in mid-90s America.
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Dec 30, 2024
He wasn't just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.
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Dec 30, 2024
During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?
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Dec 29, 2024
A voracious reader, the president liked poetry, Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter.
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