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Jun 07, 2026
In this satisfyingly old-school novel, an artist tries to find his place, and hold onto his spark, in a world that values fads and flash.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.
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Jun 06, 2026
The short story, which is set during World War I, is believed to have been printed for the first time on Friday. The story is thought to have been written no earlier than July 1918.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst's debut novel, "Waist Deep," a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.
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Jun 06, 2026
Deb Olin Unferth's new novel is part cosmic comedy and part dirge for our dying world.
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Jun 06, 2026
Summer's here. It's hot. Let these books deliver some chills.
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Jun 05, 2026
Some will have you mentally arranging flowers for your own happy day. Others provide the vicarious thrill of watching it all burn.
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Jun 05, 2026
From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.
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Jun 05, 2026
In "The Man Who Stole the Gods," Matthew Campbell recounts a shocking, decades-long crime and the search for its perpetrator.
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Jun 05, 2026
Following his "Less" books with "Villa Coco," Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.
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Jun 05, 2026
As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's classic fable is as apt as ever.
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Jun 04, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jun 04, 2026
He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author's most famous works.
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Jun 04, 2026
"Checkmate," Ben Mezrich's tale of chess scandal, may be ready for its close-up — but not for a close read.
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Jun 04, 2026
These books dig into the thrilling, ugly and swoon-worthy drama of a happy couple's big day.
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Jun 03, 2026
Caissie Levy was Broadway's first Elsa. She starred in "Hair" and "Ghost." And now, for "Ragtime," she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.
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Jun 03, 2026
As presented in Andrea Wulf's new biography, "The Traveler," George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.
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Jun 03, 2026
Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.
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Jun 03, 2026
The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.
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Jun 03, 2026
In "The Wreck of the Mentor," the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.
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Jun 03, 2026
The year is nearly halfway over. Here's what we've been listening to.
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Jun 02, 2026
The former first lady's new book reflects an insular White House where loyalty was prized and President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s feelings were prioritized over health concerns.
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Jun 02, 2026
Josh Weil's new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.
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Jun 02, 2026
In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.
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Jun 02, 2026
Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, "Land" is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland's long struggle against British rule.
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Jun 02, 2026
"The Fire Agent," by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.
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Jun 01, 2026
A collection of Harold Bloom's letters details the working life of one of America's most influential intellects.
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Jun 01, 2026
Historical chronicles and flights of fancy, all with L.G.B.T.Q. protagonists, arrive starting in June.
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Jun 01, 2026
Novels by Ann Patchett, Maggie O'Farrell and Dave Eggers; memoirs by Jill Biden and Laverne Cox; sci-fi adventures by a Pulitzer Prize winner; and more.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "1873," the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.
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Jun 01, 2026
Joana Avillez took six years to illustrate a new edition of Joseph Mitchell's "The Bottom of the Harbor," which captures the salty New York neighborhood of her youth.
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Jun 01, 2026
In "Whistler," a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of their lives.
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May 31, 2026
In "Rabbit, Fox, Tar," a white neighborhood's local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.
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May 31, 2026
Our critic on four terrific new mysteries.
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May 30, 2026
In Sonia Feldman's novel, "Girl's Girl," the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.
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May 30, 2026
In her book "Sublimation," Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.
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May 29, 2026
Lerner's new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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May 29, 2026
In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.
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May 29, 2026
Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband's successor, "View From the East Wing" largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood.
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May 29, 2026
Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek's "Found Sound" and Aida Salazar's "Stream" send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.
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May 28, 2026
Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of "Doonesbury" reunites with the journalist who pieced together his life story.
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May 28, 2026
"I love a clever puppet master," says the author of the Divergent series and the new "Seek the Traitor's Son." Her favorite hero? Antigone.
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May 28, 2026
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
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May 28, 2026
New fiction from Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and much more.
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May 27, 2026
Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly African American artist.
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May 27, 2026
A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.
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May 27, 2026
Our critic on three standout May books.
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May 27, 2026
In "Killing Spree," Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.
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May 27, 2026
For decades, publishers have swapped out cultural references in new editions of books to appeal to younger readers. Fans aren't always thrilled.
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May 26, 2026
He wrote 31 books, often drawing on his experiences as a pro football publicist, a foreign correspondent and a gun-toting spokesman for the N.Y.P.D.
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May 26, 2026
In his rethinking of Jean Genet's classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders "a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself."
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May 26, 2026
In "Freedom Round the Globe," Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the United States.
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May 26, 2026
Tom Lin's new novel, "Babylon, South Dakota," reimagines the western with surreal elements.
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May 26, 2026
The stoic narrator of "The Vivisectors" befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.
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May 26, 2026
Matt Haig returns with another life-affirming novel, this one about a man on a magical train that helps him revisit key moments of his life.
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May 25, 2026
A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.
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May 25, 2026
In "America, U.S.A.," Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country's past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.
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May 24, 2026
It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married.
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May 24, 2026
If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you'll need.
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May 23, 2026
Fans are traveling great distances for the chance to meet Tom Felton, who has revived a now grown-up Draco Malfoy on Broadway in "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child."
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May 23, 2026
In "The Danger to Be Sane," the journalist Rosa Montero delves into the connections between psychic turbulence and creative work — including her own.
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May 22, 2026
This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here's how the latest iteration came to be.
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May 22, 2026
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
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May 22, 2026
In "Dekonstructing the Kardashians," MJ Corey takes America's most famous TV clan seriously.
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May 22, 2026
As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.
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May 22, 2026
In David Sedaris's wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.
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May 22, 2026
The national ambassador for young people's literature published a manifesto aimed at adults. Then came the blowback.
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May 21, 2026
Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year's prize.
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May 21, 2026
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of "The Hunger Games," hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.
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May 21, 2026
The best-selling author Rachel Gillig recommends books that bring the haunted hallmarks of Gothic fiction into enchanted settings.
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May 20, 2026
Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.
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May 20, 2026
A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren't all so sure.
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May 20, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best books.
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May 20, 2026
In her ingenious "Dog Days," Emily LaBarge writes about a terrifying event without resorting to "the trauma plot."
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May 20, 2026
Ali Smith's new novel, "Glyph," dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.
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May 20, 2026
A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family's life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.
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May 20, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn and Harriet Clark on activism, violence, guilt and trying to make sense of their "incomprehensible" early days.
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May 19, 2026
A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.
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May 19, 2026
"Taiwan Travelogue" is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
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May 19, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn's parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.
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May 19, 2026
The fast success of this play, about the children's author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.
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May 19, 2026
Lots of guys are recommending "As a Man Thinketh" for self-improvement. That's not what it gave me.
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May 19, 2026
In "An Inconvenient Widow," Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.
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May 19, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn's parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.
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May 19, 2026
For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.
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May 18, 2026
The two-time National Book Award winner collects essays, profiles and appreciations in a new book, "On Witness and Respair."
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May 18, 2026
In "The Theater," the journalist James Verini recounts the bombing of a performing arts space turned refugee shelter in the middle of war-torn Mariupol.
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May 18, 2026
The best-selling author recommends books by Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and more where the line between nemeses and soul mates becomes deliciously flimsy.
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May 18, 2026
In his first book, Theo Baker chronicles an outrageously eventful year navigating a potent center of power.
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May 18, 2026
Kennedy Ryan just landed a TV deal for her breakout novel. Her new books challenge readers — and her characters — to dive into the Harlem Renaissance.
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May 17, 2026
The writer and illustrator William Steig lived several lives before his book about a surly ogre became a Hollywood hit.
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May 17, 2026
In "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," Andrew Durbin reconstructs the coterie that surrounded the artist-lovers Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
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May 17, 2026
Her mother put her on TV at 11 months old. She lost custody of her own daughter. The "Nashville" star has a lot to reckon with in her new memoir.
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May 16, 2026
Steven Rowley's new novel, "Take Me With You," asks who we are without our partners.
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May 16, 2026
The popular astrophysicist can be witty and informative when making science accessible. You wouldn't know it from his new book, "Take Me to Your Leader."
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May 16, 2026
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo's novel follows a commitment-averse liar who is plagued by visions of violence.
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May 15, 2026
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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May 15, 2026
The author of the InvestiGators series recommends books from his childhood as well as more recent faves.
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