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Jan 20, 2019
Seven books present a nuanced view of this giant's legacy in modern American civil rights.
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Jan 19, 2019
When Richard Gergel was assigned to the same courtroom as J. Waties Waring, he vowed to ensure that, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, Waring would "long be remembered."
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Jan 18, 2019
A. O. Scott talks about Linn Ullmann's new novel, and Judith Newman discusses new books about anxiety, mental illness and grief.
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Jan 18, 2019
Marie Benedict writes books inspired by women whose achievements have been overlooked by history, including Einstein's first wife and the film star and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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Jan 18, 2019
With its plain language and minute attention to flora and fauna, her uplifting verse was widely popular and her readings drew throngs. But critics were divided.
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Jan 18, 2019
Chilled to the bone? Warm up by dipping into one of these books — set in blazing hot summers, during heat waves, even in the desert.
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Jan 18, 2019
Ali Fitzgerald illustrates the fictional characters who were notoriously impossible to pin down.
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Jan 18, 2019
New books examine disturbing trends in modern American society.
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Jan 18, 2019
Marilyn Stasio's column travels from Manhattan to Australia to England to a forest that has hidden a dead body for 30 years.
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Jan 18, 2019
"Bluff City," by Preston Lauterbach, delves into the double life of Ernest Withers, one of the era's great documentarians.
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Jan 18, 2019
In new novels by Brenda Woods, Dan Gemeinhart, Alicia D. Williams and more, young protagonists learn the hard way that adults don't have all the answers.
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Jan 18, 2019
In Wil Medearis's debut, "Restoration Heights," a young woman goes missing in a rapidly gentrifying New York neighborhood.
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Jan 18, 2019
Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" looks at the new power of behemoths like Facebook and Google.
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Jan 18, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jan 17, 2019
The Grolier Club, the nation's oldest society of bibliophiles, just celebrated the centennial of its grand Manhattan home. Yes, there's a secret staircase hidden in a bookshelf. No, do not use gloves in its library.
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Jan 17, 2019
"Hark" — Sam Lipsyte's first novel since 2010's "The Ask" — is a riff-filled skewering of contemporary culture.
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Jan 17, 2019
Deborah Harkness's best-selling series — brimming with magic, time travel and witches — has spawned an avid fan base, an annual convention, and now, a splashy TV adaptation.
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Jan 17, 2019
Oliver, the hugely popular poet, died Thursday. Readers turned to her work to find comfort. Here's a selection of some of her best-known writing on loss and mourning.
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Jan 17, 2019
In her novel "Unquiet" their daughter, Linn Ullmann, recaptures memories of her childhood, portraying a family that was splintered from the start.
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Jan 17, 2019
With its plain language and minute attention to flora and fauna, her uplifting verse was widely popular and her readings drew throngs. But critics were divided.
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Jan 17, 2019
The author of "The Perfect Nanny" and "Adèle" likes the fact that her shelves are a mess: "It takes me a long time to find the book I need, and very often I find another one I had totally forgotten about."
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Jan 16, 2019
In "The Birth of Loud," Ian Port traces the invention and evolution of the electric guitar.
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Jan 16, 2019
In "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," Shoshana Zuboff methodically dissects a new economic order that exploits our "every move, emotion, utterance and desire."
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Jan 16, 2019
In "Breaking and Entering," Jeremy Smith tells the story of a brilliant, larger-than-life computer scientist who runs her own boutique cybersecurity firm.
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Jan 16, 2019
What books do we turn to as we prepare to die?
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Jan 15, 2019
"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" is a brief allegorical tale of a train journey into hell.
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Jan 15, 2019
A prolific writer and illustrator of children's books — "a picture-book pioneer" — whose titles include "Avocado Baby" and "Whaddayamean."
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Jan 15, 2019
The director said his new film, "Glass," was the toughest he has ever made. Yet the man once called "the Next Spielberg" says he is back where he wants to be.
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Jan 15, 2019
Their claims and demands are not new.
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Jan 15, 2019
In "Breaking and Entering," Jeremy Smith tells the story of a brilliant, larger-than-life computer scientist who runs her own boutique cybersecurity firm.
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Jan 15, 2019
Retail moguls toast their own struggling industry at separate gala.
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Jan 15, 2019
In "Prisoner," the former Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post shows that the most innocent activities in Iran could get you accused of spying.
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Jan 15, 2019
Two grants will help start a new fellowship program and support the work of the Poetry Coalition.
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Jan 15, 2019
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jan 15, 2019
In her latest Help Desk column, Judith Newman consults three books that offer guidance to readers navigating through tense times.
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Jan 15, 2019
"Inheritance" explores the way we construct our identities, and how much our belief in a blood connection to our parents shapes how we view ourselves.
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Jan 14, 2019
A rare blue pigment, discovered in the fossilized plaque of a German nun, hints at a broader role for women in the production of religious texts.
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Jan 14, 2019
She explored the obstacles confronting women seeking their place in the world as well as her own privileged but unsettled life under the sway of daunting parents.
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Jan 14, 2019
"American Advertising Cookbooks" looks at how big food brands helped shape the American palate.
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Jan 14, 2019
In "Prisoner," Jason Rezaian explains that the most innocent activities in Iran could get you accused of spying.
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Jan 14, 2019
Doug Bock Clark's first book is an immersive, densely reported look at a tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a remote Indonesian island.
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Jan 14, 2019
The art stolen by the Nazis has gotten more attention, but millions of books were also looted from Jews, and others and have yet to be returned.
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Jan 14, 2019
The gala will be held May.
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Jan 14, 2019
In Tessa Hadley's novel "Late in the Day," the bonds of love and loyalty are frayed when a widow and her married friends confront the loss of her husband.
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Jan 13, 2019
He captured very young readers with whimsical, alluringly illustrated tales. His titles include "Avocado Baby," "Mr. Gumpy's Outing," and "Whaddayamean."
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Jan 13, 2019
Ishmael Reed, who became a MacArthur fellow 17 years before Lin-Manuel Miranda, questions why Native Americans were left out of the show, for one thing.
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Jan 11, 2019
Born on a river island in West Africa and inspired by Helen Keller, he wound up teaching at Yale and writing about the spread of religions in Africa.
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Jan 11, 2019
Julian Lucas talks about the role of curses in contemporary African literature, and Abby Ellin discusses "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married."
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Jan 11, 2019
This old-fashioned reading aid is lit.
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Jan 11, 2019
Harris discusses her new memoir, "The Truths We Hold," which recounts her childhood, her tenure as California's attorney general and the political landscape we inhabit now.
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Jan 11, 2019
Harris discusses her new memoir, "The Truths We Hold," which recounts her childhood, her tenure as California's attorney general and the political landscape we inhabit now.
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Jan 11, 2019
"The Slowdown," which debuted in November, will be broadcast on several public radio stations in the United States.
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Jan 11, 2019
Some best-selling novelists have written books about their craft. Others dispense advice on Twitter, their websites and in interviews and articles.
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Jan 11, 2019
During the final week of a blockbuster exhibition, the museum will offer visitors a late-night Potter fix.
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Jan 11, 2019
In "A Thousand Sisters," Elizabeth Wein tells the thrilling true story of the World War II Soviet all-female air regiments who flew 24,000 missions into "a continuous curtain of fire."
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Jan 11, 2019
Mesha Maren's debut novel, "Sugar Run," sets a quest for re-entry against the backdrop of modern Appalachia.
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Jan 11, 2019
In "The Red Address Book," by Sofia Lundberg, an elderly woman looks back at the loves of her life.
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Jan 11, 2019
Story collections by Akiyuki Nosaka and Taeko Kono, plus a short novel by the great Yukio Mishima.
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Jan 11, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jan 11, 2019
Sarah Moss's novel "Ghost Wall" describes how the notion of "original Britishness" can lead to no good.
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Jan 11, 2019
In 1952, Meyer Levin reviewed "The Diary of a Young Girl" for the Book Review. Here's an excerpt.
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Jan 11, 2019
"Revolution Sunday," by the banned novelist Wendy Guerra, traces a young exile's struggle against censorship — political, literary and personal.
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Jan 11, 2019
In "Duped," Ellin describes her ruinous relationship and other cases of deception.
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Jan 11, 2019
In "We Are Displaced," the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai gathers stories from girls around the world who, like her, have had to flee their homes.
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Jan 11, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jan 10, 2019
A rare blue pigment, discovered in the fossilized plaque of a German nun, hints at a broader role for women in the production of religious texts.
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Jan 10, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 10, 2019
Kathryn Harrison's and Dani Shapiro's new autobiographical books are reminders of a seemingly modern job title: serial memoirist. Time and time again, self-chroniclers like them prove that you can't spell "memoir" without "me."
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Jan 10, 2019
Tracing the evolution of the mid-20th-century magazine whose pages gave rise to the genre of science fiction.
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Jan 10, 2019
A republication of a 1985 cookbook, "The Good Food," brings writers and foodies to the table.
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Jan 10, 2019
The author, most recently, of the memoir "Inheritance" turns to family and friends for reading suggestions: "My 19-year-old son is a voracious reader and constantly recommends books to me."
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Jan 10, 2019
In her latest book, the Norwegian novelist Linn Ullmann turns to a subject she has always avoided: her complicated upbringing and her famous parents.
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Jan 09, 2019
A rare blue pigment, discovered on the teeth of a Medieval nun, suggests that women of that time were more involved than thought in producing religious texts.
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Jan 09, 2019
Ari Folman and David Polonsky's graphic novel adaptation of the famous diary brings out new and vibrant aspects of Anne's voice.
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Jan 09, 2019
"Down to Earth," by Bruno Latour, and "The Misinformation Age," by Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall, help us think through an era in which the idea of truth has become a political football.
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Jan 09, 2019
"My Sister, the Serial Killer," by the Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite, follows the fortunes of two women in Lagos, a city that strives to suffocate women.
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Jan 08, 2019
Ahead of President Trump's address about immigration, these three books offer some perspective on the current political stalemate.
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Jan 08, 2019
Kristen Roupenian's "You Know You Want This" includes the short story that went viral after it was published in The New Yorker in late 2017.
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Jan 08, 2019
How should we read great literature from the past whose moral blind spots offend us?
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Jan 08, 2019
After the bookstore announced it was being forced from its home by rising rents, Mr. Miranda teamed up with "Hamilton" associates and the city on a rescue plan.
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Jan 08, 2019
In Sophie Mackintosh's debut novel, "The Water Cure," Lia, Grace and Sky — living off the grid with their abusive parents — have been raised to fear men.
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Jan 08, 2019
Brief, beautiful poems about human psychology and the natural world.
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Jan 07, 2019
In "The Breakthrough," Charles Graeber recounts the long history of researchers' attempts to mobilize the body's immune system to fight disease.
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Jan 07, 2019
Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is about a virus that causes people to nod off for very long periods and dream in disastrous premonitions.
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Jan 07, 2019
Four new literary works revisit African history, refiguring age-old maledictions as a birthright, a special form of insight, a superpower, a redemption. Julian Lucas explains.
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Jan 06, 2019
A writer whose best-known novel became a hit movie for Charles Bronson. He wrote a follow-up, "Death Sentence," to atone for the earlier book's violence.
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Jan 05, 2019
Books & Brews — a combination bookstore, nanobrewery and "place for people without a place" — has found its own place in Indianapolis and beyond.
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Jan 05, 2019
A new study found that most authors' incomes are below the poverty line.
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Jan 04, 2019
Andrew Delbanco discusses "The War Before the War," and Rob Dunn talks about "Never Home Alone."
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Jan 04, 2019
She found that the role of black women in winning the vote for all women had virtually been erased from the history books by white movement leaders.
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Jan 04, 2019
The former first lady's memoir, "Becoming," tops best-seller lists around the world.
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Jan 04, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jan 04, 2019
Shake them, pull on them, hug them, carry them to bed. These board books invite little readers right into the story.
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Jan 04, 2019
The 1943 Turkish classic follows a hopeless love story against the backdrop of a crumbling Weimar Berlin.
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Jan 04, 2019
In "Fault Lines," Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer argue for the importance of building bridges.
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Jan 04, 2019
Paul Collier's "The Future of Capitalism" argues for reviving a sense of rootedness and a web of reciprocal obligations.
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Jan 04, 2019
In her Crime column, Marilyn Stasio also heads to Bel-Air (Thomas Perry), Florida (Tim Dorsey) and Detroit (Stephen Mack Jones).
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Jan 04, 2019
Nuruddin Farah's "North of Dawn" bears witness to the tensions between fundamentalism and secularism, through the lens of a Somali-Norwegian family.
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Jan 04, 2019
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Edward Gorey's children's books illustrations.
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Jan 03, 2019
Sandeep Jauhar's exploration of our most vital organ and favored metaphor is our January pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read This."
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