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May 28, 2023
New books by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu, Sarah Cypher and Wiz Wharton showcase young women embarking on journeys of discovery around family and self.
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May 28, 2023
The "true story" of a woman with multiple personalities was a 1973 sensation and is still in print 50 years later. Why do such lurid tales hold their grip?
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May 27, 2023
His two-volume study, written with Robert W. Fogel, used data to challenge commonly held ideas about American slavery, including that it was unprofitable and inefficient.
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May 27, 2023
In his new essay collection, "The Male Gazed," the writer and film critic Manuel Betancourt explores society's portrayals of masculinity.
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May 27, 2023
Domenico Starnone's novel "The House on Via Gemito" is a searching work of autofiction about a family in postwar Naples.
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May 26, 2023
A Dallas school district apologized for not providing guidance to parents when it sent students home with a book that teaches how to respond to dangerous situations at school.
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May 26, 2023
If your idea of a good summer read involves abject terror, we've got some recommendations for you.
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May 26, 2023
The Times critics Dwight Garner and Jason Zinoman celebrate the life and work of the great British novelist and literary critic, who died last week.
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May 26, 2023
Our columnist looks at a clutch of summer crime novels, including "I Didn't Do It," set at a mystery writers' conference.
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May 26, 2023
Our columnist looks at a clutch of summer crime novels, including "I Didn't Do It," set at a mystery writers' conference.
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May 26, 2023
New novels by Fonda Lee, Martha Wells, Nick Harkaway, Kelly Link and Emma Törzs.
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May 26, 2023
Our columnist recommends six dreamy new romance novels.
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May 26, 2023
Our columnist on "Death Watch," "Going Zero" and other pulse-pounding summer novels.
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May 26, 2023
Our columnist recommends six dreamy new romance novels.
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May 26, 2023
New novels by Fonda Lee, Martha Wells, Nick Harkaway, Kelly Link and Emma Törzs.
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May 26, 2023
These books rewind time, depositing readers in the Cumbrian countryside, coastal Maine, rural Wyoming and beyond.
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May 26, 2023
These books rewind time, depositing readers in the Cumbrian countryside, coastal Maine, rural Wyoming and beyond.
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May 26, 2023
Five new audiobooks to download this summer include a breakdown of quantum computing and a tribute to Mary Oliver.
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May 26, 2023
Five new audiobooks to download this summer include a breakdown of quantum computing and a tribute to Mary Oliver.
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May 26, 2023
These five novels go well with sand, sunscreen and hot afternoons. (Landlocked on a rainy day? That works, too.)
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May 26, 2023
These five novels go well with sand, sunscreen and hot afternoons. (Landlocked on a rainy day? That works, too.)
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May 26, 2023
If your idea of a good summer read involves abject terror, we've got some recommendations for you.
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May 26, 2023
Gabrielle Zevin didn't expect a wide audience for "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," her novel about game developers. It became a blockbuster with staying power.
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May 26, 2023
In Mieko Kanai's 1997 novel, newly translated into English, a wife and mother's monotonous days are punctured by quiet revelations.
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May 26, 2023
Burhan Sönmez, who is president of PEN international, discusses the tension between politics and art and the role of literature in authoritarian societies.
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May 25, 2023
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 25, 2023
The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish "The Sweet and Sour Animal Book" in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time.
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May 25, 2023
"Good Night, Irene," a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea, sends two female volunteers to the Western Front.
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May 25, 2023
In Megan Abbott's new novel, "Beware the Woman," a romantic dramedy morphs into horror.
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May 25, 2023
An elegy to the ecstasy of life in the gutter.
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May 25, 2023
In her No. 1 best-selling picture book, "A Day With No Words," the debut author shows an average day in the life of a boy who has autism.
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May 25, 2023
"Indeed, the two have a lot in common!" says the author, whose new novel is "The Late Americans."
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May 24, 2023
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said "The Hill We Climb," which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden's inauguration in 2021, was "better suited" for older students after a parent complained about it.
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May 24, 2023
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said "The Hill We Climb," which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden's inauguration in 2021, was "better suited" for older students after a parent complained about it.
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May 24, 2023
"Gone to the Wolves" follows three young Floridians shredding their way through the heavy metal scenes of the 1980s and '90s.
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May 24, 2023
For years, Gene Luen Yang was convinced a single character in his groundbreaking graphic novel would doom any attempt at an adaptation. What changed?
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May 24, 2023
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her mother to cancer at 8 and was kicked out of her high school and her home at 16. "Women We Buried, Women We Burned" chronicles her quest to create a fulfilling life on her own terms.
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May 24, 2023
A company is republishing books that have fallen out of print and finding new ways to market works that are years, even decades, old.
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May 24, 2023
In "Genealogy of a Murder," Lisa Belkin maps the meandering roads that wound through families and decades before intersecting in tragedy.
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May 24, 2023
A selection of recently published books.
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May 23, 2023
Georgi Gospodinov's acclaimed satire, translated by Angela Rodel, is the first Bulgarian novel to win the prestigious award.
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May 23, 2023
Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts.
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May 23, 2023
"These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction," writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse.
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May 23, 2023
An ambitious new book by Victor Luckerson traces the history of Greenwood, Okla., from its prosperous early days through the 1921 race massacre and its aftermath.
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May 23, 2023
Elliot Ackerman's alternate history reimagines the politics and science of the early 21st century.
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May 23, 2023
A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear.
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May 23, 2023
In Melissa Sevigny's "Brave the Wild River," we meet the two scientists who explored unknown terrain — and broke barriers.
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May 23, 2023
In Laura Kay's new novel, "Wild Things," a timid young woman embarks on a year of adventure, only to stumble into romance along the way.
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May 22, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education reached a settlement with a Georgia school district after launching an investigation into whether book removals created a hostile environment for students.
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May 22, 2023
As a psychological coach (and ex-player), he helped revive a woeful Cleveland baseball team. He had a WFAN show about youth sports and shepherded best sellers.
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May 22, 2023
Finding a book you'll love can be daunting. Let us help.
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May 22, 2023
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain's most famous literary son.
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May 22, 2023
"NB by J.C." collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
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May 22, 2023
"Dom Casmurro," by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
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May 22, 2023
The longtime sports journalist Claude Droussent discusses his new guidebook to cycling in Europe, which uses data from the fitness app Strava, and the growing role bicycles play in worldwide travel.
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May 22, 2023
The longtime sports journalist Claude Droussent discusses his new guidebook to cycling in Europe, which uses data from the fitness app Strava, and the growing role bicycles play in worldwide travel.
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May 22, 2023
In "Fires in the Dark," Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a "love song to psychotherapy."
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May 21, 2023
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing "Whose Body?," the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
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May 21, 2023
Brandon Taylor's novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
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May 20, 2023
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
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May 20, 2023
In books like "Money" and "The Information," he created "a high style to describe low things," as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father's son.
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May 20, 2023
In a video, Mr. Green said he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a very "treatable cancer."
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May 20, 2023
An editor recommends old and new books.
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May 20, 2023
In Bronwyn Fischer's debut novel, "The Adult," an 18-year-old woman leaves her rural hometown for a big-city campus where she falls deep into a love affair — and poetry.
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May 20, 2023
"Tomás Nevinson," the final novel by the late Spanish writer, sends a washed-up agent in search of a terrorist.
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May 20, 2023
In a new novel, "The Lock-Up," investigators from the novelist's previous books join forces in 1950s Dublin.
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May 19, 2023
Shunning fire and brimstone, he became a best-selling author and founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church, which drew young New Yorkers.
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May 19, 2023
Where to start with one of today's most prolific and beloved fantasy writers, and the robot who wrote a murder mystery.
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May 19, 2023
The physician-author's new book, "The Covenant of Water," contains traces of his mother, his cousin and his own medical experience.
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May 19, 2023
The man behind the landmark reboot of "The Sandman" comic (and Netflix series) is going strong after decades of writing in just about every format. Here's where to get started with his books for adults.
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May 19, 2023
A new West End adaptation, starring Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist, recasts Annie Proulx's 1997 short story as a memory play.
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May 19, 2023
Santi Elijah Holley's new book tracks the vision and activism of the Shakurs, from the Black Panthers to Tupac.
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May 19, 2023
The South Korean writer Hwang In-suk feeds stray cats on late-night walks through Seoul. The routine informs her poems about loneliness and impermanence.
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May 19, 2023
From the 19th century to the present, the photos collected in Todd Brewster's latest book offer glimpses into the lives of our nation's youngest members.
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May 19, 2023
Seven brand-new and time-tested books about sleepaway camp.
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May 19, 2023
In Ivy Pochoda's new thriller, "Sing Her Down," two recently released prison inmates migrate from Arizona to Los Angeles, leaving a string of grisly scenes in their wake.
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May 19, 2023
In Matthew Shindell's "For the Love of Mars," perceptions of the planet reflect the changing culture of Earth.
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May 19, 2023
Marine biology and astronomy play crucial roles in two middle-grade novels about trauma and mental health.
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May 18, 2023
The novelist, who was stabbed and gravely wounded at a literary event last year, received an award from the freedom of expression organization.
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May 18, 2023
Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of "perpetual cultural mixing." Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city's layers.
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May 18, 2023
What do these memoirs have in common? They contain subtle lessons in persistence, coping and, yes, cleanliness.
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May 18, 2023
"The other day I was shocked to discover that somehow I have amassed a rather robust collection of books about punk rock," says the writer, whose novel "Trust," now in paperback, won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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May 18, 2023
A 21st-century troubadour's lament, from the country musician and poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski.
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May 17, 2023
A selection of recently published books.
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May 17, 2023
A free-speech organization and the country's largest book publisher said the district violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause.
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May 17, 2023
The man behind the landmark reboot of "The Sandman" comic (and Netflix series) is going strong after decades of writing in just about every format. Here's where to get started with his books for adults.
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May 17, 2023
A new book by the legal scholar Stephen Vladeck argues that unsigned and unexplained decisions issued through the court's shadow docket have helped propel its jurisprudence to the right.
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May 17, 2023
In "Lincoln's God," Joshua Zeitz examines the 16th president's personal and idiosyncratic brand of Christianity.
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May 17, 2023
Sam McCarthy accompanied his father on the Camino de Santiago and is featured in his father's new memoir, but what did he think of it? The pair discuss their achievement.
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May 17, 2023
Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of "perpetual cultural mixing." Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city's layers.
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May 16, 2023
Masha Gessen stepped down following the free expression group's decision to cancel an event at its World Voices Festival after Ukrainian writers threatened to boycott.
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May 16, 2023
In two memoirs, magazine articles and a Times essay, she recounted the joys and miseries of living as a double transplant recipient.
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May 16, 2023
Treat language as a Jenga tower, moving its pieces but preserving its structure.
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May 16, 2023
In her debut novel, "Glassworks," Olivia Wolfgang-Smith follows multiple generations of a family over the course of a century, as they struggle to discover and define themselves.
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May 16, 2023
In "Yellowface," R.F. Kuang satirizes the publishing industry with a tale of a struggling writer who passes off her recently deceased friend's book as her own.
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May 16, 2023
About a year after the author Michael Lewis began to shadow Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried was arrested. As the story evolved, Lewis has had a front-row seat to the drama.
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May 16, 2023
In "Thinning Blood," Leah Myers mixes genres to explore her tribal heritage.
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May 16, 2023
"The Postcard," by Anne Berest, tells the story of the author's family members who died at Auschwitz in 1942.
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May 16, 2023
"The Garden of Seven Twilights," by Miquel de Palol, is a vast novel of ideas masquerading as a novel of suspense.
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May 15, 2023
In "Fortune's Bazaar," Vaudine England rejects a tale-of-two-cities approach to the history of Hong Kong's colonization, embracing the in-between lives of those who made it.
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