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Mar 22, 2019
Dreamy marshmallows, rude animals, a portal to a mirror world and more fill the latest crop of picture books.
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Mar 22, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Mar 21, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 21, 2019
When Kurt Vonnegut was at work on his hugely influential antiwar novel, "he was writing to save his own life," his daughter said.
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Mar 21, 2019
In their debut novels, Yara Zgheib and Anissa Gray explore the harrowing experience of female eating disorders.
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Mar 21, 2019
One Colombian writer reflects on what the adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece means for her culture and people.
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Mar 21, 2019
"Little Boy" recounts his life story in a free association of flashes and arias, of high and low culture — the verbal riffs of a good talker.
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Mar 21, 2019
In Boris Fishman's memoir, "Savage Feast," mealtime is when all the rich and roiling contradictions of his Eastern European Jewish family come into play.
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Mar 21, 2019
The author, most recently, of the novel "The Other Americans" first read Zora Neale Hurston five years ago: "I was knocked out by her eye for detail."
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Mar 20, 2019
In her new memoir, Carolyn Forché tells the story of how a stranger's suggestion that she visit El Salvador in the late 1970s changed the course of her art and her life.
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Mar 20, 2019
A new publisher, AWA, will have a connected superhero universe as well as stand-alone comics.
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Mar 20, 2019
In her debut collection, "Invasive Species," the Egyptian immigrant Marwa Helal plumbs the complications of nationhood and inclusion.
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Mar 20, 2019
In "Survival Math," Mitchell S. Jackson tells his family story of living in Oregon and reckons with the interplay of racism and patriarchy in his own life.
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Mar 20, 2019
The acclaimed author of "The Things They Carried" talked to The Times about writing for Season 3 and how an all-volunteer military force changed the public's perception of war.
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Mar 19, 2019
Her 1982 tale of a lonely woman who falls in love with a sea creature had a revival, dovetailing with the release of the 2017 film "The Shape of Water."
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Mar 19, 2019
Her 1982 tale of a lonely woman who falls in love with a sea creature had a revival, dovetailing with the release of the 2017 film "The Shape of Water."
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Mar 19, 2019
David Shields describes his new book as "a short, intensive immersion into the perils, limits and possibilities of human intimacy."
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Mar 19, 2019
Kathryn Davis's novel "The Silk Road" is full of provocative mysteries: Are its characters many or one? Where are they going? Have they witnessed a murder?
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Mar 19, 2019
For the best-selling author of thrillers, buying a spooky old Victorian seemed a little too on the nose. But he did it anyway.
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Mar 19, 2019
In "Zora and Langston," Yuval Taylor revisits the relationship that laid much of the groundwork for black American literature in the 20th century.
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Mar 18, 2019
A new book gives an alphabetical rundown, with recipes, of the foods most beloved by Jewish-Americans.
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Mar 18, 2019
Bryan Washington's first collection of stories revolve around characters in Houston, particularly one teenage boy discovering his sexuality.
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Mar 18, 2019
Alex Gibney's new HBO documentary "The Inventor" is only the latest retelling of the Silicon Valley fraud that captivated the public imagination.
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Mar 18, 2019
The author's eighth novel, "The Parade," is a parable-like story featuring two unnamed men on assignment in an unnamed country in the wake of a civil war.
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Mar 18, 2019
Books that will inspire children to get into the kitchen and cook.
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Mar 18, 2019
Joan Biskupic's "The Chief" examines John Roberts's life and his career on the Supreme Court.
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Mar 18, 2019
Carol Gilligan, author of the feminist classic "A Different Voice," reminds us that we're all humans.
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Mar 18, 2019
"First: Sandra Day O'Connor," by Evan Thomas, is a richly detailed life of the pathbreaking justice.
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Mar 17, 2019
A tour of the recent annual installment of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Mar 16, 2019
Her detective hero, who loved pancakes and his dog, Sludge, helped children learn how to read — and how to sleuth.
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Mar 15, 2019
Ms. Iglauer, an American, came to Canada to portray it for the rest of the world. But she made it her home and wrote with an insider's perspective.
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Mar 15, 2019
Mr. Merwin, one of the world's most decorated poets, sang of silence and nature with an oracular voice. Later in life he became an ardent conservationist.
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Mar 15, 2019
Mr. Merwin, one of the world's most decorated poets, sang of silence and nature with an oracular voice. Later in life he became an ardent conservationist.
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Mar 15, 2019
Mr. Silverman collaborated with Gale Sayers on his memoir, a chapter of which was later adapted into one of the most popular TV movies of all time.
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Mar 15, 2019
The fashion designer discusses "I.M.," and David McCraw talks about "Truth in Our Times."
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Mar 15, 2019
If the recent cheating scandal makes you want to read more about the college application process, here's a place to start.
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Mar 15, 2019
In his 1997 book "Perfect Agreement," Downing mixes the academic world with the people and values of the last Shaker families in America.
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Mar 15, 2019
Barry Strauss's "Ten Caesars" is a quick romp through the strange lives of several Roman rulers.
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Mar 15, 2019
In "The End of the Myth" Greg Grandin explores our love of the boundless West as it evolved over the 19th century and into the 20th — and why it was a mirage.
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Mar 15, 2019
"Still in Love" and "Such Good Work" revisit the lessons and trials of the classroom.
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Mar 15, 2019
Matt Farwell, an Army veteran and author of "American Cipher," has a lot to say about the war in Afghanistan and the way the country treated Bergdahl.
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Mar 15, 2019
For Women's History Month — and all year long — these chronicles of the lives of Pura Belpré, Wilma Mankiller, Leonora Carrington and Anna Atkins are needed reminders of women's achievements.
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Mar 15, 2019
If/when he manages to separate from his group of friends, Mr. Rannells will take a Swiffer to his floors, attempt to work out, or listen to a podcast.
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Mar 15, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Mar 15, 2019
From George Eliot and Mary Shelley to Joan of Arc and Coco Chanel, female icons from centuries past take the spotlight in three new books.
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Mar 15, 2019
This week's Crime column features novels about bad-boy cops and suburban serial killers, then offers an escape to scenic Provence.
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Mar 15, 2019
Written four decades ago, Yuko Tsushima's novel "Territory of Light" tells of a woman in Tokyo coping with the dissolution of her marriage.
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Mar 15, 2019
Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of "Daisy Jones & The Six" — about the breakup of an iconic 1970s band — admits that she struggled with songwriting.
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Mar 15, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Mar 14, 2019
The longtime friends on their new book, the pleasures — and perils — of childhood, and the remarkable success of their indie uke band.
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Mar 14, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 14, 2019
As I struggle with chronic pain, cozy for me is less hygge and more my ex-boyfriend's mother, nurses with juice and weird, sandy doughnuts.
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Mar 14, 2019
Writers of speculative fiction routinely invent rules and regulations as part of their novels' worlds. These laws tell us more about our own politics than you might think.
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Mar 14, 2019
If the recent cheating scandal makes you want to read more about the college application process, here's a place to start.
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Mar 14, 2019
Thanks to a viral musical that just opened on Broadway, Ned Vizzini's 2004 novel is reaching a big new audience, five years after he killed himself.
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Mar 14, 2019
Maybe not to have the word "man" in their word anymore!
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Mar 14, 2019
"Good Will Come From the Sea," a story collection by Christos Ikonomou, captures the desperation of his country's citizens in the wake of economic devastation.
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Mar 14, 2019
The author, most recently, of the memoir "Shout" doesn't shun any genres: "That's like avoiding colors or parts of the flavor spectrum. I want all kinds of stories on my plate."
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Mar 14, 2019
The prize committee called Mr. Gilroy, 63, "one of the most challenging and inventive figures in contemporary scholarship."
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Mar 13, 2019
If the recent cheating scandal makes you want to read more about the college application process, here's a place to start.
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Mar 13, 2019
Cara Robertson's "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" is a fresh telling of the Gilded Age murder case that captured worldwide attention and continues to exert a dark fascination.
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Mar 13, 2019
In his memoir, "I.M.," the designer recalls his climb from Brooklyn misfit to American design icon.
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Mar 13, 2019
Joan Didion. Rebecca Traister. Toni Morrison. And more. Throughout March, we'll be sharing new essays and reviews, and resurfacing classics from some of our favorite writers.
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Mar 13, 2019
In "Figuring," Popova roams over 400 years of science and poetry, highlighting women who have added to the history of creativity and invention.
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Mar 12, 2019
The satirical Second Coming series will be published by AHOY Comics. It was canceled last month by DC Comics after critics called it blasphemous.
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Mar 12, 2019
The satirical Second Coming series will be published by AHOY Comics. It was canceled last month by DC Comics after critics called it blasphemous.
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Mar 12, 2019
Lynne Olson's "Madame Fourcade's Secret War" tells of a woman who led the fight against the Nazis while combating sexism among her colleagues.
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Mar 12, 2019
The satirical Second Coming series will be published by AHOY Comics. It was canceled last month by DC Comics after critics called it blasphemous.
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Mar 12, 2019
A protean citizen of the art world — artist, curator, dealer, collector and more — he wrote a monumental four-volume life of a 20th-century giant.
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Mar 12, 2019
"Last Days at Hot Slit," edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder, collects work by the radical feminist who said her writing had to be "bolder and stronger than woman-hating itself."
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Mar 12, 2019
The best-selling author of "Girl, Wash Your Face" already has millions of followers, but she's not done spreading the word.
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Mar 12, 2019
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Mar 12, 2019
Sci-fi writers gave us satellite communication, army tanks, tablets, CCTV and the internet — before these things existed in real life. What explains their powers of foresight?
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Mar 11, 2019
Leila Aboulela's collection "Elsewhere, Home" gathers perspectives from Aberdeen to Cairo in a much-needed nod to the universality of the human condition.
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Mar 11, 2019
"Elsewhere, Home" gathers perspectives from Aberdeen to Cairo in a much-needed nod to the universality of the human condition.
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Mar 11, 2019
Elsa Morante's "Arturo's Island," about a boy's coming-of-age in the years before World War II, has been newly translated by Ann Goldstein, who brought Elena Ferrante's novels into English.
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Mar 11, 2019
We called "Sister Carrie" a book "one can get along very well without reading," dismissed "Lolita" as "dull, dull, dull," and had nothing nice to say about "Howards End."
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Mar 11, 2019
The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog has a new guidebook that will walk you through the best drinking spots on the Emerald Isle.
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Mar 11, 2019
Maybe that's why he believes in love.
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Mar 11, 2019
In his review, Preet Bharara calls David McCraw's "Truth in Our Times" a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper's legal battles with the Trump administration and others.
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Mar 11, 2019
The 92nd Street Y has released a 1950 recording in which the poet talks about live vs. recorded readings and how to pace a public performance.
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Mar 11, 2019
Benn Steil's "The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War" has won the New-York Historical Society's prize for the best work of American history.
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Mar 11, 2019
How Elizabeth Hargrave turned a passion for ornithology and spreadsheets into a popular game about birds.
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Mar 11, 2019
The writer and bookstore founder's upcoming 100th birthday is the perfect reason to take a tour of old-school San Francisco, with an emphasis on the Beats' legacy.
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Mar 11, 2019
David McCraw's "Truth in Our Times" is a behind-the-scenes report on one newspaper's legal battles with the Trump administration and others.
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Mar 11, 2019
The Russian government celebrates the writer Ivan Turgenev even though it scorns many of his negative views of his homeland and his embrace of Western, liberal values.
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Mar 10, 2019
His condemnation of the educational bureaucracy, in a book published during a dispute over decentralization in 1968, fueled the movement that led to mayoral control.
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Mar 10, 2019
David Means's latest collection, "Instructions for a Funeral," is filled with adulterers and criminals, railroad bums and wharf rats and other castaways.
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Mar 10, 2019
African-American lives in the city, a fictional 1970s rock band, an exhibition of tiny books, a memoir of solitary confinement and more.
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Mar 09, 2019
In "The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges," Aatish Taseer mourns the politicization of traditional Hindu values and the rise of religious bigotry.
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Mar 09, 2019
We called "Sister Carrie" a book "one can get along very well without reading," dismissed "Lolita" as "dull, dull, dull," and had nothing nice to say about "Howards End."
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Mar 08, 2019
She drew notice for a story of a gay attraction that threatens a marriage and a fictional diary of a woman in Nazi Germany that some took to be true.
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Mar 08, 2019
She drew notice for a story of a gay attraction that threatens a marriage and a fictional diary of a woman in Nazi Germany that some took to be true.
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Mar 08, 2019
His condemnation of the educational bureaucracy, in a book published during a dispute over decentralization in 1968, fueled the movement that led to mayoral control.
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Mar 08, 2019
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's "House of Stone" uses a young man's search for his personal ancestry as a way of unearthing hidden aspects of his country's violent past.
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Mar 08, 2019
Alex Kotlowitz discusses "An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago," and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, "The Wall."
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Mar 08, 2019
While teaching Joyce and Faulkner (and also Stephen King and Dashiell Hammett), he published "Confessions of a Lady-Killer," drawing feminist scorn.
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Mar 08, 2019
A filing seeking arbitration says the estate allowed eight theaters around the United States to stage "To Kill a Mockingbird," then flip-flopped at the last minute.
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Mar 08, 2019
Parodies of the president proliferate in books and on TV. But how do you ridicule a man who seems to have mastered the strategies of those who would hold him to account through humor?
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Mar 08, 2019
The artist Tillie Walden pays graphic homage to the classic children's book.
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