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Apr 05, 2020
In "Afterlife," even privilege can't shield a Dominican-American widow from the immigrant's plight.
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Apr 05, 2020
Frank B. Wilderson III talks about his experimental approach to writing about blackness and violence, as well as the solace he found in Sarah Vaughan.
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Apr 04, 2020
In his new collection of novellas, "Broken," Don Winslow pays playful tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Steve McQueen.
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Apr 04, 2020
C Pam Zhang's debut, "How Much of These Hills Is Gold," is one of several new or forthcoming books by Asian-American writers set in a period that historically hasn't recognized them.
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Apr 03, 2020
In 1968, at her urging, Charles M. Schulz added Franklin Armstrong to his enormously popular comic strip as a way to promote racial equality.
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Apr 03, 2020
She gave up the stage for the writing life, publishing biographies of some famous friends and two powerful memoirs. She died of the coronavirus.
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Apr 03, 2020
The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour discusses the specific challenges of raising teenagers during the pandemic, and Dwight Garner asks Pamela Paul about putting together the Book Review.
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Apr 03, 2020
Canada's National Arts Center is using streaming video for authors to promote their spring and summer titles to a nation stuck indoors by the pandemic.
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Apr 03, 2020
Aron Nels Steinke, author of the "Mr. Wolf's Class" series, describes the very real problem of a bibliophilic kid in this coronavirus moment.
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Apr 03, 2020
In Marilyn Stasio's latest column, the body count is high and the murderers more cunning than ever.
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Apr 03, 2020
In Victoria Jamieson's "When Stars Are Scattered," a Somali boy pines for his mother and cares for his little brother with hope and humor during 15 years in a refugee camp.
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Apr 03, 2020
Even for people who have lost jobs or income during the coronavirus epidemic, there are books and reading material available online for free.
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Apr 03, 2020
In "Hidden Valley Road," Robert Kolker unspools the story of Mimi and Don Galvin and their 12 children, six of whom developed schizophrenia.
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Apr 03, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Apr 03, 2020
John Kay and Mervyn King's "Radical Uncertainty," Stanislas Dehaene's "How We Learn" and Anthony David's "Into the Abyss" plumb the depths of the brain.
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Apr 03, 2020
Letters to the editor of the Sunday Book Review.
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Apr 02, 2020
Dip into a bizarre true-crime chronicle or a novel that evokes the campy, oddball world of the Netflix documentary series.
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Apr 02, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 02, 2020
Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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Apr 02, 2020
Yoko Ogawa of Japan, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of the Netherlands and Fernanda Melchor of Mexico are among the authors in the running for the prestigious translated literature award.
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Apr 02, 2020
Our first reader-generated itinerary: a weekend of traveling you can do from home.
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Apr 02, 2020
A new book looks at the figure of the American cowboy through the outlaw lens of Mr. Prince, an artist known for his sly borrowings.
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Apr 02, 2020
In "Cool Town," Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the story of R.E.M., the B-52's and the musical city of Athens.
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Apr 02, 2020
"Nothing in my life is organized, especially not my books."
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Apr 02, 2020
Kate Elizabeth Russell's publication experience has been the best of times and the worst of times. Here's why.
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Apr 01, 2020
The current crisis is hard for readers even though, for many, it has come with the unexpected gift of free time and nowhere to be.
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Apr 01, 2020
"American Conservatism," a collection of pieces edited by Andrew J. Bacevich, demonstrates the wide range of conservative thought in America.
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Apr 01, 2020
"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" will spark lively conversation among people who have run out of things to say.
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Apr 01, 2020
Irby's new essay collection, "Wow, No Thank You," offers more of her deadpan, confiding voice, which ranges from high silliness to emotionally painful depths.
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Mar 31, 2020
An excerpt from "August," by Callan Wink
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Mar 31, 2020
The musician's list of cultural must-haves includes her collection of kitsch, reruns of "The Office" and early punk and hip-hop photographs.
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Mar 31, 2020
An excerpt from "Sharks in the Time of Saviors," by Kawai Strong Washburn
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Mar 31, 2020
Mr. dePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 books, including his classic story of a grandma witch and her helper, Big Anthony.
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Mar 31, 2020
Callan Wink's debut novel, "August," pits brains against brawn in an America far from the literary world.
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Mar 31, 2020
In Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's "Hex," an expelled Ph.D. candidate offers a not-so-scientific confession to the mentor she idolizes.
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Mar 31, 2020
"Hurricane Season," by Fernanda Melchor, imagines Mexico's scourge of violence against women in language that is fierce, profane and marvelously inventive.
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Mar 31, 2020
Recent collections from Sidney Wade, Justin Phillip Reed and more; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Mar 31, 2020
Peniel E. Joseph's "The Sword and the Shield" shows that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had more in common than is generally believed.
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Mar 30, 2020
Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful "copyright ideology."
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Mar 30, 2020
Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment.
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Mar 30, 2020
A scholar of Judaism as well, he walked every block in New York — totaling 6,163 miles — and wrote a book about his odyssey. He died of the coronavirus.
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Mar 30, 2020
In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing's imperative to bear witness.
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Mar 30, 2020
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
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Mar 30, 2020
Robert Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road" is a vividly told story of both a very unfortunate family and a long misunderstood affliction.
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Mar 30, 2020
In 1966, the writer Paul Theroux was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing's imperative to bear witness.
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Mar 30, 2020
The novelist Ann Patchett doesn't have children and didn't read middle-grade books. Then she picked up one by Kate DiCamillo and couldn't stop until she'd read them all.
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Mar 30, 2020
Kawai Strong Washburn's debut novel envisions an archipelago of Indigenous peoples who refuse to be erased.
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Mar 28, 2020
Ariana Neumann's father had nightmares and an ID card in a different name. In her memoir, "When Time Stopped," she unspools the past he kept hidden for so long.
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Mar 28, 2020
In "Dragon Hoops," Gene Luen Yang intercuts the thrilling wins and crushing losses of one high school team with basketball's own turbulent history.
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Mar 28, 2020
How could we so heedlessly appropriate a medical term?
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Mar 28, 2020
When Covid-19 struck, Stanford closed its classrooms. The novelist Daniel Mason turned his students' last assignment into an exercise for staying well.
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Mar 27, 2020
With stores temporarily shut down and other industry disruptions, some of the most anticipated titles of the spring are being pushed back to later in the year.
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Mar 27, 2020
Whitehead discusses "The Underground Railroad," and Toobin talks about "American Heiress."
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Mar 27, 2020
Helped by a raft of strong women, the heroine of Kate Messner's "Chirp" reclaims the parts of her childhood she's not ready to leave behind.
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Mar 27, 2020
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, a writer turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too.
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Mar 27, 2020
Seeing some of our childhood favorites in a brand-new, contemporary light.
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Mar 27, 2020
The end of relationships, the end of life, the end of civilization: Collections from Major Jackson, Carolyn Forché, Victoria Chang and Danez Smith imagine the worst.
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Mar 27, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Mar 27, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Mar 27, 2020
This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about "Galápagos," Kurt Vonnegut's novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse.
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Mar 26, 2020
Allen's "Apropos of Nothing," recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him.
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Mar 26, 2020
Claire Weekes, a pioneer in treating anxiety, offered simple and soothing advice that has come to influence much of our approach to panic.
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Mar 26, 2020
The films of Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott are short but complex and suspenseful. And the wide-open vistas are sure nice, right now.
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Mar 26, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 26, 2020
In this uncertain time, here are the cookbooks Food reporters and editors turn to for reliably delicious results.
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Mar 26, 2020
In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own.
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Mar 26, 2020
An art critic shares his best advice for transforming that uncomfortable feeling into a thing of beauty.
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Mar 26, 2020
"I also admire the ones who are taking a break and not working."
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Mar 26, 2020
The nonagenarian masturbation icon is not slowing down.
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Mar 25, 2020
His books on Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton and others could be as unsparing as his syndicated column. He was also a familiar face on PBS public-affairs programs.
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Mar 25, 2020
He shepherded more than 300 books into print, including James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk" and Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Identity."
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Mar 25, 2020
In Rob Doyle's novel, a character of the same name drifts, from Paris to Thailand, Croatia and Sicily, doing drugs, mourning his heroes and avoiding writing.
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Mar 25, 2020
Julia Alvarez's first new novel in 14 years, an overview of conservative thought, "Notes From an Apocalypse" and more.
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Mar 24, 2020
As schools close during the coronavirus crisis, sales of reading and writing workbooks, flash cards and activity books have skyrocketed.
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Mar 24, 2020
At Christie's in London, he essentially created the notion that wine could be auctioned like furniture or art. He was also an influential wine writer.
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Mar 24, 2020
N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became" is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
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Mar 24, 2020
Books from the past show us how John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confronted the crises they faced.
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Mar 24, 2020
An excerpt from "The City We Became," by N.K. Jemisin
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Mar 24, 2020
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's new book combines memoir and reporting to tell the stories behind the headlines.
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Mar 24, 2020
Genie Chance felt the earth move under her feet, and then she got to work. Jon Mooallem tells her story in "This Is Chance!"
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Mar 24, 2020
Susan Nordin Vinocour's "Nobody's Child" uses one case as a prism for examining the history and future of the insanity defense in American courtrooms.
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Mar 24, 2020
"Pain Studies," by Lisa Olstein, and "Constellations," by Sinead Gleeson, plumb the authors' experiences with suffering to creative effect.
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Mar 24, 2020
"The City We Became" is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
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Mar 24, 2020
In her new memoir, Anne Glenconner reflects on her nearly three decades of service to Princess Margaret.
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Mar 24, 2020
A selection of recent visual books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Mar 24, 2020
Claudio Saunt's new book reckons with the history and legacy of the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans from their homes.
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Mar 24, 2020
"Then the Fish Swallowed Him," the first novel in English by the Iranian-born Amir Ahmadi Arian, makes for unnerving reading.
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Mar 23, 2020
An excerpt from "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel
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Mar 23, 2020
Arcade Publishing released "Apropos of Nothing" on Monday. The book had ignited a backlash earlier this month, after its original publisher, Hachette, canceled its plans to release the book.
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Mar 23, 2020
"Apropos of Nothing" had ignited a backlash earlier this month, after which its original publisher, Hachette, canceled its plans to release the book.
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Mar 23, 2020
Matt Jones drove through each of his state's 120 counties to understand why Mitch McConnell polls so poorly there yet is serving his sixth full term in the Senate.
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Mar 22, 2020
In her new novel, the author revisits some of the techniques she used in "Station Eleven."
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Mar 20, 2020
A scholar and historian, he amassed an invaluable trove of interviews and other material with his wife, the filmmaker Camille Billops.
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Mar 20, 2020
Mo Willems, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and other authors for young readers are reading their work online and offering drawing tutorials, to help fill our strange new hours.
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Mar 20, 2020
With promotional events for her new book canceled, the organizational expert finds solace in cooking, shredding documents and — of course — tidying her Los Angeles home.
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Mar 20, 2020
Marilyn Stasio finds the latest crime novels filled with gristle, gore and guts.
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Mar 20, 2020
Playing, dreaming, speaking up, absolutely not going to sleep: New books from Colin Meloy, Jillian Tamaki and more open vistas for little readers.
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Mar 20, 2020
The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about "Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing."
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Mar 20, 2020
An artist remembers a cozy moment from his youth.
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Mar 20, 2020
Ways for white-collar workers to tidy their professional habits, even from a hastily constructed home office.
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