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May 23, 2025
Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from "The Lord of the Rings."
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May 23, 2025
In "Murder in the Dollhouse," Rich Cohen tells the story of Jennifer Dulos — and our queasy fascination.
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May 23, 2025
You don't need to be on the sand to enjoy these novels. You just need a certain willingness to be swiftly transported.
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May 23, 2025
In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a wayward wash of color.
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May 22, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 22, 2025
Looking for some fictional murder and mayhem? Our columnist is keeping track of the best crime novels of 2025.
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May 22, 2025
Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, previews four books we're anticipating this summer.
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May 22, 2025
Looking for some fictional murder and mayhem? Our columnist is keeping track of the best crime novels of 2025.
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May 22, 2025
"My favorite novel of all time" is an antidote to "Of Mice and Men," he promises. His new book, "Anima Rising," is a playful visit to 1911 Vienna.
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May 22, 2025
"My favorite novel of all time" is an antidote to "Of Mice and Men," he promises. His new book, "Anima Rising," is a playful visit to 1911 Vienna.
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May 22, 2025
Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress's revenge.
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May 22, 2025
How did streetwear become high fashion? Why are there so many serial killers in the Pacific Northwest? Prize-winning writers tackle these questions, while memoirists consider celibacy, spycraft and Erica Jong.
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May 21, 2025
"This World of Tomorrow," based on the actor's 2017 short story collection, is scheduled to begin performances in October at the Shed.
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May 21, 2025
In Chris Pavone's new novel, "The Doorman," the real world closes in on residents of a luxury apartment building.
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May 21, 2025
In "Whack Job," Rachel McCarthy James finds a connection between self-reliance and brutality. And for the record, she's not so sure Lizzie Borden did it.
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May 21, 2025
In the novel "Speak to Me of Home," three generations of women in one family grapple with their identities.
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May 21, 2025
The romance author Ashley Poston recommends books bursting with quaint charm, sizzling banter and plenty of heart.
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May 20, 2025
Banu Mushtaq's "Heart Lamp," translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it's won the major award for translated fiction.
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May 20, 2025
A neoconservative who fervidly opposed Communism and the fundamentalist regime in Iran, he wrote many books and articles, some of whose theories were later discredited.
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May 20, 2025
In "Bear Witness," Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.
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May 20, 2025
Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, "Spent," is a domestic comedy about ethical consumption under capitalism.
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May 20, 2025
Madeleine Thien's time-warping historical novel "The Book of Records" collapses centuries and geographies in an ambitious family saga.
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May 20, 2025
First published in 1972, Rosalyn Drexler's "To Smithereens" throws two vivid subcultures — and two unlikely lovers — into the ring.
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May 19, 2025
Now in its 25th year, The Dresden Files and its author have survived the darkness, fictional and otherwise.
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May 19, 2025
The beloved humor columnist looks back on a long career of wit and wisdom in a new memoir.
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May 19, 2025
Lauren Christensen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, recommends four of her favorite audiobooks.
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May 19, 2025
Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.
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May 19, 2025
Our critic on the month's best releases.
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May 18, 2025
In the searing "Dirty Kitchen," Jill Damatac tells the story of a fight for survival and culture in America.
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May 18, 2025
In "Things in Nature Merely Grow," the novelist Yiyun Li endures the aftermath of unthinkable loss.
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May 17, 2025
A poet's letters; a collection of reminiscences.
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May 17, 2025
In "The Art Spy," Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland.
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May 17, 2025
Donal Ryan's new novel focuses on a small community trying to leave behind years of economic woes.
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May 16, 2025
His style as a poet and artist was informed by his upbringing in Shanghai and his years in Paris. He then joined the Pop-fueled studios of New York.
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May 16, 2025
The author of influential books and essays, he was known for a contemporary theory of religion and Catholicism that advocated dialogue, not decrees.
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May 16, 2025
The Pulitzer-winning presidential biographer discusses his new book about the life of a literary founding father.
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May 16, 2025
Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ordinary grief memoir.
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May 16, 2025
Beyond disclosures about his sexuality and marriage, the media mogul's memoir mostly serves up goodies for fans of Hollywood name-dropping and infighting.
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May 16, 2025
The National Book Award-winning author teaches young readers a political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate.
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May 15, 2025
In "Apple in China," Patrick McGee argues that by training an army of manufacturers in a "ruthless authoritarian state," the company has created an existential vulnerability for the entire world.
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May 15, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 15, 2025
In a new book, Benoît Gallot explains what it takes to run Père-Lachaise, where he lives with his wife, children and, he insists, no ghosts.
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May 15, 2025
With one hand, while standing. It's the kind of accomplishment that would never make it into his new book, "Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups."
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May 14, 2025
One of the first Iranian novelists to write in English, she examined the clash between East and West. Her debut novel, "Foreigner," provided insight into pre-revolutionary Iran.
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May 14, 2025
Five years later, she has a new novel, "Speak to Me of Home," which draws directly from her family's history in Puerto Rico and the Midwest.
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May 14, 2025
A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries' worth of grievances about our global financial order.
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May 14, 2025
Besha Rodell's memoir, "Hunger Like a Thirst," is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.
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May 13, 2025
In their new book, the "We Can Do Hard Things" crew admit they don't have the answers. But it helps to savor the moments that don't suck.
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May 13, 2025
She was a writer and a top editor at publications as diverse as The Nation, Vogue and Entertainment Weekly. She also helped found Grand Street and reboot Vanity Fair.
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May 13, 2025
"Original Sin," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, depicts an aging president whose family and aides enabled his quixotic campaign for a second term.
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May 13, 2025
Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.
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May 13, 2025
As President Trump pushes to end the Russian invasion, two books look at the paramilitary Wagner Group and consider the shape of global conflict today.
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May 13, 2025
In "A Sharp Endless Need," two female high school athletes get lost in a vortex of passion while grappling with deeper wounds.
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May 13, 2025
In Kevin Wilson's novel "Run for the Hills," half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.
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May 12, 2025
"Fever Beach" is a wacky blend of Floridian farce and the perverse politics of our time.
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May 12, 2025
A.O. Scott, who reviewed movies for The New York Times for more than two decades, is now a roving critic for the Book Review.
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May 11, 2025
A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong's florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.
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May 11, 2025
Amy Larocca's book "How to Be Well" dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.
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May 10, 2025
A tale of pollen and prejudice, and more. (Achoo!)
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May 10, 2025
Laurence Leamer, the author of "Capote's Women" and "Hitchcock's Blondes," takes the measure of another powerful man and his female muses.
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May 10, 2025
In Hilary Plum's novel "State Champ," a mediocre receptionist goes on a hunger strike — only to question the purpose of protest.
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May 10, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best releases.
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May 09, 2025
Discovering the ways her great-grandfather's rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, "Melting Point."
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May 09, 2025
It's not too early to think about the season's most anticipated titles.
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May 09, 2025
Your bags may be ready to go, but do you really have everything you need? Here are some apps that can make your travels smoother, safer and more fun.
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May 09, 2025
In "The Family Dynamic," Susan Dominus examines what makes some families "exceptional."
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May 09, 2025
"The Village Beyond the Mist" may or may not have inspired the Studio Ghibli masterpiece, but it's transporting nonetheless.
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May 09, 2025
"Sleep," the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother's present and her disturbing, unresolved past.
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May 08, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 08, 2025
Pete Wells explores how the revered cookbook author changed the way Americans think about the cuisine.
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May 08, 2025
The best-selling romance author Carley Fortune recommends books whose high stakes and buried traumas make their love stories all the more satisfying.
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May 08, 2025
"Good choice, Daddy. Very nice," she said sarcastically, given what he was making for dinner. The chef and humanitarian's new book is "Change the Recipe."
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May 07, 2025
In a memoir that tries to wrest control of her story, Ms. Baldwin says she was "canceled" via online sleuths who looked for inconsistencies in her Spanish accent.
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May 07, 2025
In their new book, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle admit they don't have the key to happiness. And their podcast audience loves them for it.
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May 07, 2025
Need a last-minute Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 07, 2025
Mo Ogrodnik's novel, "Gulf," follows characters from different countries and classes confronting the region's forced stratification into oppressor and oppressed.
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May 07, 2025
A new book by the historian Ian Kumekawa tracks the varied career of a gigantic boat in an era of profound economic change.
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May 07, 2025
The nonfiction and novels we can't stop thinking about.
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May 07, 2025
As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural.
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May 06, 2025
In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn't agree on the three less-heralded finalists.
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May 06, 2025
In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn't agree on the three less-heralded finalists.
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May 06, 2025
The media mogul publicly addressed being gay for the first time, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. "Today he opened to the world," she said.
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May 06, 2025
In "The Peepshow," Kate Summerscale tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a sensational murder case that rocked 1950s London.
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May 06, 2025
In "Theater Kid," Jeffrey Seller reflects on his Broadway career.
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May 06, 2025
In Franziska Gänsler's novel, "Eternal Summer," a tenuous bond forms between strangers stranded in a hotel as the world burns.
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May 06, 2025
In "The Original Daughter," the debut novel by Jemimah Wei, a Singaporean family craters under the weight of ambition, jealousy and things left unsaid.
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May 06, 2025
In "The Manor of Dreams," two sets of women navigate both a contested inheritance and paranormal activity after a devastating death.
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May 06, 2025
A new novel considers the perplexing life and times of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who worked in the shadow of the Reich.
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May 05, 2025
"James," by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for "Every Living Thing."
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May 05, 2025
Senior officials announced their resignations after the Trump administration withdrew grants from arts organizations around the country.
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May 05, 2025
Jimmy Donaldson, known to his social media fans as MrBeast, is teaming up with the mega-best-selling thriller author.
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May 05, 2025
Bridget Read's "Little Bosses Everywhere" exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own sales force.
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May 04, 2025
In "The Dazzling Paget Sisters," Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at the 20th-century figures with whom they cavorted.
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May 04, 2025
In a new history, Ted Genoways explores the dramatic life of an enigmatic figure who revolutionized his country's spirits industry.
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May 04, 2025
A new novel, "The Butcher's Daughter," imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
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May 03, 2025
A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.
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May 03, 2025
The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.
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May 03, 2025
In "The Deserters," Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.
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May 03, 2025
In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian boarding schools.
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May 02, 2025
Katie Mitchell's photo book "Prose to the People" visits stores around the United States, from the 19th century to today.
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