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Nov 23, 2020
Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in Ron Howard's Hollywoodized version of J.D. Vance's best seller.
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Nov 23, 2020
They can't detect all conflicts, but new computer programs serve as guard rails when scientists and publishers fail to self-police.
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Nov 23, 2020
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
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Nov 23, 2020
Guillermo Stitch's novel "Lake of Urine" is full of bristly characters and bizarre incidents.
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Nov 21, 2020
Morris, who died on Friday at 94, was an inveterate traveler who wrote acclaimed books about Venice, Hong Kong, New York and many other places.
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Nov 21, 2020
In Lev Grossman's first middle grade novel, "The Silver Arrow," a magic steam train ride with talking animals gives a young girl a sense of purpose.
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Nov 21, 2020
In "Alice's Farm," a brave cottontail and her brother secretly help a city family succeed at farming to save their bunny habitat from developers.
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Nov 21, 2020
Barack Obama's new book, "A Promised Land," arrived nearly four years after he left the White House. A look at how he and other presidents approached their memoirs offers some clues about the timing.
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Nov 20, 2020
A longtime editor at Simon & Schuster, he brought to market both commercial hits and literary prizewinners and edited more than 50 New York Times best sellers.
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Nov 20, 2020
A look at our picks from the past 16 years.
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Nov 20, 2020
In two books, she described Sammy Davis Jr.'s negligent parenting but also celebrated the intimate moments she shared with him toward the end of his life.
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Nov 20, 2020
A.O. Scott talks about Williams's fiction, and Nicholas Christakis discusses his new book about the coronavirus, "Apollo's Arrow."
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Nov 20, 2020
When a children's book tour goes virtual, high jinks ensure.
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Nov 20, 2020
In more than four dozen books, Morris explored foreign lands, her own Britain and her experience as a transgender woman.
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Nov 20, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 20, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 19, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 19, 2020
His father and mother were both Nobel Prize winners. His most famous book was about how badly they treated him.
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Nov 19, 2020
The autobiographical novel, about the lonely gay son of an alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland, was one of four debut books in this year's shortlist.
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Nov 19, 2020
In "A Sound Mind," the British journalist Paul Morley discovers the wonders of classical music.
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Nov 19, 2020
Even our clothes suffer when they're stuck at home. In this poem, a shirt dreams of the wider world.
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Nov 19, 2020
"Wild landscapes, weird nature, science fiction — this really should be my jam. But no."
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Nov 19, 2020
The creator of Humans of New York went global in his new best seller. Now that we have to stay local, his perspective is more galvanizing than ever.
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Nov 18, 2020
The nonfiction prize went to Les Payne and Tamara Payne for "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X." The crime novelist Walter Mosley received a lifetime achievement award.
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Nov 18, 2020
A day after the 2018 announcement that she had written a negative book about President Trump, the White House escalated an unrelated dispute by referring it to the Justice Department.
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Nov 18, 2020
Pamela Sneed's book powerfully recalls the contributions and leadership of lesbians during the height of the AIDS crisis.
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Nov 18, 2020
Her books for young readers had won acclaim when, in 1994, one for adults made the Booker Prize shortlist — but only after she had resorted to publishing it herself.
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Nov 18, 2020
An all-star cast came together, remotely and in socially distanced shoots, to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir into a vivid amalgam of art, music and performance for HBO.
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Nov 18, 2020
An all-star cast came together, remotely and in socially distanced shoots, to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir into a vivid amalgam of art, music and performance for HBO.
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Nov 18, 2020
Some publishing executives worry their authors and staff might rebel, but they say their bigger concern would be ensuring the book's accuracy.
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Nov 18, 2020
In the third installment of "The Americans," his series on overlooked or under-read writers, A.O. Scott considers the idiosyncratic originality of an author whose influences extend from Hawthorne to Carver but whose imagination is wholly her own.
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Nov 18, 2020
Patton Oswalt reviews "Alright, Alright, Alright," an oral history by Melissa Maerz.
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Nov 17, 2020
In Charles Baxter's new novel, "The Sun Collective," an aging couple‘s search for their missing son leads them to a quasi-anarchist group.
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Nov 17, 2020
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nov 17, 2020
Simon Han's "Nights When Nothing Happened" exposes the tedium and tension of life as a foreigner in America.
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Nov 17, 2020
"V2," Robert Harris's new World War II novel, follows a German engineer of the feared rockets and a British woman sent to stop them.
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Nov 17, 2020
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" examines a long list of tyrants in the modern era.
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Nov 17, 2020
Catherine Coleman Flowers's memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist.
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Nov 17, 2020
On TikTok, Gen Z "Harry Potter" fans edit themselves into the movies in a quest for escapism, representation and community.
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Nov 17, 2020
On TikTok, Gen Z "Harry Potter" fans edit themselves into the movies in a quest for escapism, representation and community.
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Nov 17, 2020
An excerpt from "Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West," by Lauren Redniss
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Nov 17, 2020
An excerpt from "The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State," by Declan Walsh
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Nov 17, 2020
"Maybe the People Would Be the Times," "The Age of Skin," "Mobile Home" and "The Best of Brevity" break down a complicated world.
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Nov 17, 2020
Three new books on race and relationships explore how white attitudes about sex and emotions have shaped our history.
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Nov 17, 2020
In the coming days, the team will cover two major awards and reveal two year-end lists. There's also a certain presidential memoir coming out. Two editors discuss an industry that hasn't slowed down.
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Nov 17, 2020
In Alecia McKenzie's new novel, "A Million Aunties," a Black painter seeks solace from personal tragedy in the arms of his Jamaican community.
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Nov 17, 2020
Catherine Coleman Flowers's memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist.
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Nov 17, 2020
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe's sacred land.
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Nov 17, 2020
In "The Nine Lives of Pakistan," Declan Walsh, a foreign correspondent for The Times, profiles some of the country's powerful and contentious figures and investigates why his work eventually got him kicked out.
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Nov 17, 2020
"The Moth and the Mountain," by Ed Caesar, recounts the unlikely story of a man who dreamed of being the first person to ascend Mount Everest.
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Nov 17, 2020
Ismail Kadare's autobiographical novel "The Doll" is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.
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Nov 17, 2020
Kadare's autobiographical novel "The Doll" is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.
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Nov 17, 2020
In "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds," the public health expert Paul Farmer examines the structural and historical inequalities that led to Ebola's devastating toll.
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Nov 17, 2020
In David Hopen's debut novel, "The Orchard," faith gets put to the test as a boy comes of age.
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Nov 17, 2020
In "This Is Not My Memoir," the co-star of "My Dinner With André" remembers his many theatrical provocations.
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Nov 17, 2020
"Stillicide," a novel by Cynan Jones, imagines a world where an extended drought has transformed daily life.
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Nov 17, 2020
A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing.
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Nov 16, 2020
Two new works of history, "South to Freedom," by Alice L. Baumgartner, and "The Kidnapping Club," by Jonathan Daniel Wells, show how the actions of Black Americans have long influenced national politics.
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Nov 16, 2020
The star and co-creator of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" wryly explores adolescent angst, adult trauma and musical theater in a new memoir, "I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are."
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Nov 16, 2020
"Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple," an updated cookbook, offers useful lessons in economy for trying times.
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Nov 15, 2020
Tsitsi Dangarembga's debut novel, "Nervous Conditions," made her part of the African literary canon. Decades later, "This Mournable Body" has made her a contender for one of the world's top book prizes.
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Nov 15, 2020
"A Promised Land" is a potential lifeline for booksellers whose sales have plummeted during the pandemic.
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Nov 15, 2020
The former president recounts his political ascent and offers close-up views of the major issues he faced during his first years in the White House.
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Nov 14, 2020
Spend the week getting swept up in classic dance, admiring a sloth or listening to Soccer Mommy.
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Nov 14, 2020
"Cleo Porter and the Body Electric," a lighthearted adventure written before the pandemic, imagines a post-virus world eerily like the one we now inhabit.
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Nov 14, 2020
Michael Riedel's "Singular Sensation" tracks the blockbuster successes of the 1990s.
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Nov 13, 2020
Two remarkable new picture books about ships that pass in the night.
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Nov 13, 2020
Byrne talks about his work with the artist Maira Kalman on his latest book, and Brittany K. Barnett discusses "A Knock at Midnight."
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Nov 13, 2020
Independent bookstores have suffered in Covid times. Here's a few of the more famous ones and how they're faring.
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Nov 13, 2020
In his fourth memoir, "No Time Like the Future," the actor and activist opens up about his newfound, uniquely upbeat brand of pessimism.
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Nov 13, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 13, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 13, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 13, 2020
Michael P. Jeffries reviews Les Payne and Tamara Payne's book, "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X," in this week's issue. In 1992, Michael Eric Dyson wrote for the Book Review about a select group of books that examine Malcolm X's life.
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Nov 13, 2020
Coming-of-age stories from four first-time novelists.
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Nov 13, 2020
In Gavriel Savit's "The Way Back," a National Book Award finalist, two children leave their shtetl and venture to the Far Country.
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Nov 12, 2020
Join The Times for a live virtual announcement of this year's 10 Best Books list, featuring a celebrity guest.
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Nov 12, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 12, 2020
The discovery suggests that "Principia" had a stronger impact on Enlightenment science than previous research suggested.
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Nov 12, 2020
In "The Law of Innocence," someone has planted a corpse in the trunk of the snazzy lawyer's famous Lincoln Town Car.
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Nov 12, 2020
This first volume of the former president's memoirs brims with warmth, humor and introspection.
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Nov 12, 2020
Maaza Mengiste spent years on "The Shadow King," not only writing but also learning Italian, living in Rome and amassing an archive of historical photography that informed her book.
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Nov 12, 2020
In "Metazoa," Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the ocean depths to illuminate how the minds of animals work.
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Nov 12, 2020
She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead.
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Nov 12, 2020
"It helped me reshuffle things in my head and how I wanted to speak."
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Nov 11, 2020
Mr. Zach chafed at the formal structures and opaque Hebrew of poetry in the young Jewish state, and wrote in a looser and more direct language.
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Nov 11, 2020
In her mesmerizing "Self-Portrait," Paul recounts her fraught relationship with Freud and the challenges of realizing her artistic ambitions.
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Nov 11, 2020
Steve Martin wanted to make cartoons, but he can only draw stick figures. He teamed up with the illustrator Harry Bliss, and the result is their new book, "A Wealth of Pigeons."
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Nov 11, 2020
In "The Woman Who Stole Vermeer," Anthony M. Amore recounts the social history that led to the biggest female-led art heist ever committed.
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Nov 10, 2020
"African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song," edited by Kevin Young, contains an overwhelming amount of variety and history.
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Nov 10, 2020
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nov 10, 2020
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" examines a long list of tyrants in the modern era.
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Nov 10, 2020
An excerpt from "The Arrest," by Jonathan Lethem
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Nov 10, 2020
An excerpt from "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life," by Katherine E. Standefer
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Nov 10, 2020
An excerpt from "Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood," by Christa Parravani
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Nov 10, 2020
David Diop's novel "At Night All Blood Is Black" follows an African soldier fighting for the French as he sinks deeper into psychological horror.
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Nov 10, 2020
A young woman's diagnosis is only the beginning of the mystery in "Lightning Flowers." As Katherine E. Standefer tried to make sense of her heart condition, her conscience sent her on a trip across the world.
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Nov 10, 2020
The authors of "The Office of Historical Corrections," "Igifu," "Where the Wild Ladies Are" and "A Sense of the Whole" would like to revise the record.
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Nov 10, 2020
In "Cobble Hill," Cecily von Ziegesar visits a wealthy pocket of a trendy borough.
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Nov 10, 2020
"Metropolis," by Ben Wilson, examines the history of civilizations and the "connective tissue" that makes them thrive.
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