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Dec 10, 2023
With the publication a new book about their influential teen drama, which debuted in 2003, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have learned to love "The O.C." again.
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Dec 10, 2023
Shahnaz Habib's "irreverent history" takes a lively and sometimes ruthless look at who gets to go where and what gets papered over in their accounts.
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Dec 10, 2023
Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.
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Dec 09, 2023
A Laurie Colwin classic and a modern chef's posthumous memoir.
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Dec 09, 2023
"It's fun doing something that's a bit terrifying sometimes," says the "Sandman" writer, who will reprise his beloved reading of "A Christmas Carol" at Town Hall.
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Dec 09, 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn't stop thinking about this year.
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Dec 08, 2023
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs look back on the books that have stuck with them in 2023.
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Dec 08, 2023
A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.
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Dec 08, 2023
Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.
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Dec 08, 2023
Keong Sim reads the audiobook version of the author's second posthumous collection, "Songs on Endless Repeat."
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Dec 08, 2023
Here are the year's most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children's books editor.
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Dec 08, 2023
A writer and artist finds a path out of pain in the stacks of a library.
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Dec 08, 2023
Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.
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Dec 08, 2023
The Book Review's art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year.
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Dec 08, 2023
Five collections our columnist loved this year.
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Dec 07, 2023
He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.
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Dec 07, 2023
The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.
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Dec 07, 2023
For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.
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Dec 07, 2023
He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.
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Dec 07, 2023
Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.
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Dec 07, 2023
A torrent of canceled events is threatening Germany's reputation as a haven for artistic freedom.
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Dec 07, 2023
The publisher's new board of directors has expertise spanning the life cycle of a book.
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Dec 07, 2023
The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end.
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Dec 07, 2023
At 512 pages, "My Effin' Life" has its share of Rush lore. But the most memorable parts of the singer and bassist's book are about survival.
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Dec 07, 2023
"Into Siberia" traces the journalist George Kennan's long-forgotten trip to Russia in 1885.
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Dec 07, 2023
The act of being inspired by others is akin to collecting pebbles of experience, letting them escape into flowing consciousness and resurfacing them again in one's writing.
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Dec 07, 2023
"A great story casts a spell," says the author, whose new novel is "The Vulnerables." "It can enthrall you so completely that you not only forget that you're stuck between two manspreaders in a noisy, crowded, smelly subway car but miss your stop."
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Dec 06, 2023
Paul Thomas Murphy's "Falling Rocket" focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.
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Dec 06, 2023
The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker has written a comic version of "Dracula" that is appearing Off Broadway.
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Dec 06, 2023
It was an amazing year for horror. Here are 10 great titles that stood out.
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Dec 06, 2023
Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that "refuses to be reduced to an ideal."
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Dec 05, 2023
This captivating adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's novel, a collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, follows a man and his ailing mother during a civil war in South Africa.
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Dec 05, 2023
In Gabrielle Korn's debut novel, "Yours for the Taking," a feminist cultural icon runs a lifesaving artificial habitat, but a secret, and controversial, agenda guides her project.
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Dec 05, 2023
Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.
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Dec 05, 2023
Samantha Harvey's fifth novel, "Orbital," follows a day in the life of six international astronauts circling Earth on a space station.
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Dec 05, 2023
It's been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we've had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows.
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Dec 05, 2023
In "Flores and Miss Paula," Melissa Rivero takes readers inside a Brooklyn apartment where family ties are uncomfortably snug.
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Dec 04, 2023
Our columnist picks the year's best.
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Dec 04, 2023
Naoise Dolan's "The Happy Couple" follows 20-something Dubliners hurtling toward the altar, stubbornly clinging to their self-delusions that this is what they want.
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Dec 04, 2023
A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.
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Dec 04, 2023
Over the next six months, inmates in prisons around the country will be able to debate and vote on the winner of a new book award — the Inside Literary Prize.
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Dec 04, 2023
Three new books describe far-flung societies — from the Native tribes of North America to the caliphates of Eurasia — that have made war and sustained their conquests.
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Dec 04, 2023
From witch stories to near-future noir, here are the year's 10 best speculative books.
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Dec 03, 2023
Sorry, Swifties. The Gen Z slang term — derived from "charisma" — went viral this year after the actor Tom Holland claimed to have none.
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Dec 03, 2023
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2023's sexiest, swooniest reads.
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Dec 03, 2023
"Prophet Song" has earned comparisons to dystopian classics like "1984." But Lynch downplays the book's political message. This book, he says, was deeply personal.
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Dec 03, 2023
In "Zero at the Bone," Christian Wiman offers a welcome tonic: poetic and philosophical reminders of how to get through troubling times.
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Dec 03, 2023
Here are the novels our columnist loved most.
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Dec 03, 2023
The Book Review's daily critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — reflect on the books that stuck with them in 2023.
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Dec 02, 2023
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.
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Dec 02, 2023
Long before Florida Man became a meme, he mined the Sunshine State's weirdness for enough material to fill 26 darkly funny crime novels.
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Dec 02, 2023
Molly recommends a 19th-century "Dumb and Dumber" and a collection of essays about the weirder corners of the business world.
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Dec 02, 2023
Paolini, a best-selling author of young adult fantasy novels, has a new book out, "Murtagh." In it, he returns to the world of "Eragon" and the adventures he began creating as a teenager.
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Dec 02, 2023
In his new book, "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory," the journalist Tim Alberta subjects his faith's embrace of right-wing extremism to critical scrutiny.
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Dec 02, 2023
They include an espionage caper, the tale of a murderous librarian and a high-stakes adventure that takes place inside the various stomachs of a whale.
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Dec 02, 2023
In "Most Delicious Poison," Noah Whiteman explores nature's fine line between killing and curing.
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Dec 02, 2023
In "Welcome Home, Stranger," Kate Christensen takes readers inside the best kind of fictional family: a dysfunctional one.
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Dec 01, 2023
Justice O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, was a swing vote on polarizing issues before a closely divided court. These books offer insight into her life, career and legacy.
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Dec 01, 2023
A secret, a disappearance, a frozen body and a mysterious stranger — these historical novels have something for everyone.
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Dec 01, 2023
New books by Vajra Chandrasekera, Avi Silver, Cadwell Turnbull, Michael Mammay and T. Kingfisher.
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Dec 01, 2023
New books by Vajra Chandrasekera, Avi Silver, Cadwell Turnbull, Michael Mammay and T. Kingfisher.
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Dec 01, 2023
"Prophet Song," a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.
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Dec 01, 2023
From a 200th-anniversary edition of Clement C. Moore's Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly loopy poems for every day of the year.
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Dec 01, 2023
Our columnist recommends six new thrillers.
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Dec 01, 2023
Our romance columnist recommends four new books.
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Dec 01, 2023
Our romance columnist recommends four new books.
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Dec 01, 2023
A secret, a disappearance, a frozen body and a mysterious stranger — these historical novels have something for everyone.
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Dec 01, 2023
Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining new book, "The Path to Paradise," tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career.
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Dec 01, 2023
Need a little diversion? Our crime columnist has plenty of books to recommend.
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Dec 01, 2023
Need a little diversion? Our crime columnist has plenty of books to recommend.
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Dec 01, 2023
Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard's debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger.
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Nov 30, 2023
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 30, 2023
Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.
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Nov 30, 2023
The rollout of "Endgame" caused a scandal after a quickly withdrawn translation named family members said to have asked about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan's future son.
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Nov 30, 2023
The author of the Percy Jackson series (newly adapted for Disney this month) is looking for anthologies of Indigenous folklore and mythology, too.
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Nov 30, 2023
A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Nov 30, 2023
A landmark biography of Ella Fitzgerald, memoirs from David Mamet and Liz Cheney, a new historical novel from Ariel Lawhon and more.
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Nov 30, 2023
A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here's where to start.
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Nov 30, 2023
Surprising ascensions, Hollywood migrations and daggers to the art — it's all part of life at the top.
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Nov 29, 2023
The authors of "Comedy Book" and "Outrageous" argue that culture-war worries about what's a laughing matter have been overplayed.
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Nov 29, 2023
Adalyn Grace, the author of the "Belladonna" series and the "All the Stars and Teeth" duology, recommends her favorite young adult novels with heroines torn between competing romantic interests.
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Nov 29, 2023
The new book by Lauren Elkin examines artists who've defied conventions and expectations, including Carolee Schneemann, Eva Hesse and Kara Walker.
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Nov 29, 2023
For decades, Juan Rulfo's novel, "Pedro Páramo," has cast an uncanny spell on writers. A new translation may bring it broader appeal.
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Nov 28, 2023
This month, writer Suleika Jaouad revisits her second bone marrow transplant in the documentary "American Symphony."
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Nov 28, 2023
They're here!
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Nov 28, 2023
The poem's repetitions evoke the grim repetitions of history.
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Nov 28, 2023
The author of "The Jemima Code" has distilled 200 years of African American drinking know-how into her new "Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs and Juice."
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Nov 28, 2023
They're here!
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Nov 28, 2023
Finding a book you'll love can be daunting. Let us help.
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Nov 28, 2023
It would be tempting to allow my son to believe in a world that will never betray him, but I want him to know better.
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Nov 28, 2023
Delphine de Vigan's "Kids Run the Show" skewers the phenomenon of parents exposing their children to the world for personal gain.
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Nov 27, 2023
"Among Friends" is a history of an industry transformed by consolidation and shifting tastes.
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Nov 27, 2023
The poets' collective, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of the genre's most important accolades.
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Nov 27, 2023
A handy guidebook outlines 27 bucolic walks outside the British capital that begin and end at train stations. We tried some out.
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Nov 27, 2023
Lauren Grodstein's new novel takes place in the Warsaw ghetto, where a secret group of archivists made sure the truth survived.
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Nov 26, 2023
The judges for the prestigious award were not unanimous in their decision to select this novel, which depicts an Ireland descending into totalitarianism.
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Nov 26, 2023
In "Endgame," Harry and Meghan's sympathetic biographer, Omid Scobie, takes on the in-laws — and takes no prisoners.
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Nov 25, 2023
Leah Greenblatt recommends "Meg," by Theodora Keogh, and "The Glass Cell," by Patricia Highsmith.
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Nov 25, 2023
With some 900 book-related businesses, Paju Book City, northwest of Seoul, is an intentional and euphoric celebration of books and the bookmaking process.
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Nov 25, 2023
Roland Lazenby's big biography of Magic Johnson gives us a wealth of detail, a huge cast of characters and, in a way, the tapestry of our time.
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