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Sep 02, 2025
The prizewinning novelist's unsparing memoir, "Mother Mary Comes to Me," captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
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Sep 02, 2025
Amie Barrodale's dazzlingly weird novel, "Trip," is about a mother and son adrift — in the afterlife and in the South Atlantic, respectively.
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Sep 02, 2025
In the enchanting memoir "The Season" Helen Garner writes about her grandson's Australian Rules football team — and so much more.
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Sep 02, 2025
The ambitious but intimate sweep of Patrick Ryan's new novel, "Buckeye," recalls classic storytelling of another era.
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Sep 02, 2025
In the essay collection "Our Fragile Freedoms," Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
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Sep 01, 2025
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
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Sep 01, 2025
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over "Hamilton" and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
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Sep 01, 2025
In "The Call of the Honeyguide," Rob Dunn explores how the natural and human worlds have helped each other through history — and can again.
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Aug 31, 2025
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
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Aug 31, 2025
"This Is My Body," by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month's notable horror releases.
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Aug 30, 2025
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be "at her own wake," a colleague said.
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Aug 30, 2025
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be "at her own wake," a colleague said.
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Aug 30, 2025
The acclaimed writer has a new memoir, and a warning.
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Aug 30, 2025
The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.
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Aug 30, 2025
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and director Chris Columbus on their new adaptation, first-day jitters and their shared love of "Home Alone."
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Aug 30, 2025
In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal.
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Aug 30, 2025
In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman's fragmented consciousness.
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Aug 30, 2025
The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in "The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything."
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Aug 29, 2025
In her groundbreaking trilogy, "Women Scientists in America," she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women.
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Aug 29, 2025
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs.
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Aug 28, 2025
Some sportswriters accused her of "deifying" Indiana's irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Aug 28, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 28, 2025
These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
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Aug 28, 2025
But there is a place for the Bible, says the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is celebrating its centennial.
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Aug 27, 2025
Our columnist on four notable novels.
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Aug 27, 2025
His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.
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Aug 27, 2025
In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana's visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
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Aug 27, 2025
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
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Aug 27, 2025
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
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Aug 27, 2025
Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.
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Aug 26, 2025
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.
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Aug 26, 2025
The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail.
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Aug 26, 2025
Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.
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Aug 26, 2025
Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.
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Aug 26, 2025
"A Truce That Is Not Peace," the Canadian novelist's first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father's and sister's suicides, 10 years apart.
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Aug 26, 2025
Austyn Wohlers's novel, "Hothouse Bloom," sets a solitary woman's reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery.
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Aug 25, 2025
Relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died earlier this year, contend that the book underplays the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband.
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Aug 25, 2025
"Vulture," by Phoebe Greenwood, follows a journalist's downward spiral in Gaza.
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Aug 25, 2025
Tales of body-snatching aliens and apocalyptic super-flus by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and more double as time capsules of American fear.
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Aug 24, 2025
He discovered and nurtured Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger and many other authors. He had, Mr. Lewis said, "the storytelling equivalent of perfect pitch."
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Aug 24, 2025
Life on the red planet? "Bosh and nonsense," said one astronomer. But according to "The Martians," plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.
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Aug 24, 2025
A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.
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Aug 23, 2025
Interested in espionage fiction, but don't know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
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Aug 23, 2025
Interested in espionage fiction, but don't know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
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Aug 23, 2025
"It's like I woke up halfway through my life."
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Aug 23, 2025
A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.
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Aug 22, 2025
Charlotte McConaghy's novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.
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Aug 22, 2025
In his best-selling books, notably the "Natchez Burning" trilogy, he addressed what one reviewer called "the pervasive impact of past events."
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Aug 22, 2025
In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen's classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.
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Aug 22, 2025
With the country facing a "reading crisis," the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax.
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Aug 22, 2025
My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of "Little Women" that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn't learn much from the story.
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Aug 21, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 21, 2025
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.
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Aug 21, 2025
Starting with "That Smell" in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
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Aug 21, 2025
This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" are coming out; and an updated book is due.
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Aug 21, 2025
"Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters," says the prizewinning playwright behind "Stereophonic," which is now up in London.
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Aug 21, 2025
The best-selling horror and fantasy author recommends books about the terrors that lurk under the stairs.
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Aug 20, 2025
Our critic says Regina Black's "August Lane" is the best book she's read this year.
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Aug 20, 2025
"Born in Flames," by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.
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Aug 20, 2025
Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.
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Aug 19, 2025
Clean home, clean mind. Or at least you can try, with the help of several tomes about doing more with less.
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Aug 19, 2025
The musical "Operation Mincemeat" tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
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Aug 19, 2025
Kaila Yu's "Fetishized" is a candid and intimate memoir of the exoticized Asian body.
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Aug 19, 2025
In "Baldwin: A Love Story," Nicholas Boggs goes far beyond other scholars in tracing Baldwin's relationships and their role in his work.
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Aug 18, 2025
Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea.
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Aug 18, 2025
Our columnist on three notable new novels.
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Aug 18, 2025
Mark Doten's new book examines a contemporary American culture that routinely defies satire.
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Aug 17, 2025
The food writer Olia Hercules proves to be a great cook and a powerful family historian in "Strong Roots."
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Aug 17, 2025
"Dominion," by Addie E. Citchens, recounts the many sins of a prominent household in a Mississippi town.
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Aug 16, 2025
In a new memoir, the British poet Raymond Antrobus describes the ways deafness has profoundly shaped his world.
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Aug 16, 2025
Elliot Ackerman, a Marine veteran and prolific author, switched gears with "Sheepdogs," a caper story featuring down-on-their-luck ex-military buddies.
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Aug 15, 2025
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.
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Aug 15, 2025
"Black Moses," by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier.
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Aug 15, 2025
A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real.
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Aug 14, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 14, 2025
In "Rope," Tim Queeney makes a case for the humble material as the tie that binds human history.
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Aug 14, 2025
Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he's collaborated with David Levithan on the novel "Songs for Other People's Weddings."
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Aug 14, 2025
He was 40 years old, "so I decided to rewrite it and make it for adults." He's now the title character of "The Magician of Tiger Castle."
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Aug 14, 2025
The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
A visit to the turbulent coastline of County Donegal reveals a place where the Welsh poet found creative enrichment in the summer of 1935.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
Josephine Rowe's slim, atmospheric novel "Little World" connects disparate characters through the traveling corpse of a young girl.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history.
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Aug 12, 2025
Cleyvis Natera's novel "The Grand Paloma Resort" combines fast-paced suspense, class distinctions and colonial history in a breathless seven-day trip to the Dominican Republic.
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Aug 12, 2025
"The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," by Peter Orner, revives an unsolved mystery involving Chicagoland royalty.
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Aug 12, 2025
Jonathan Mahler's new book portrays the city's rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division.
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Aug 12, 2025
A new book by the veteran correspondent Jon Lee Anderson captures a long war's noble goals and crippling missteps.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
"Ruth," by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
If you're reeling after the final episode of Season 3 or looking for more sumptuous drama, these books will get you through to the next season.
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Aug 10, 2025
In her second essay collection, "Sloppy," the writer and social media personality Rax King embraces the mess of living imperfectly.
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Aug 10, 2025
In "Friends Until the End," James Grant explores the political passions and inspiring oratory of the British parliamentarians Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Aug 10, 2025
In C. Mallon's novel, a teenager's night out with friends dissolves into a collision of catastrophes.
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Aug 09, 2025
In Emily Adrian's "Seduction Theory," two married creative writing professors have parallel affairs, with very different outcomes.
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Aug 08, 2025
Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book "Nuclear War: A Scenario."
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Aug 08, 2025
"Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time" chronicles the champagne decadence and wicked wit of the New York society doyenne Mamie Fish.
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