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Mar 25, 2026
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
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Mar 25, 2026
The writer, and the artist JD Beltran, have come up with Art Water, to host exhibitions, give 30 artists studio space, and offer community events.
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Mar 25, 2026
A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless growth impossible to sustain.
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Mar 25, 2026
In "How Flowers Made Our World," David George Haskell makes a case for their soft power.
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Mar 25, 2026
Just in time for Opening Day, Robert Coover's prescient 1968 baseball novel is back in print.
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Mar 24, 2026
"American Men," by Jordan Ritter Conn, and "Who Needs Friends," by Andrew McCarthy, report from the front lines of the epidemic of male loneliness.
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Mar 24, 2026
In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators.
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Mar 24, 2026
How The Washington Post's now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.
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Mar 24, 2026
"Open Space," by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos.
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Mar 23, 2026
In Mark Rosenblatt's play, a powerful portrayal of the beloved children's book author who almost gleefully exposes his bigotry.
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Mar 23, 2026
Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.
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Mar 23, 2026
In Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel "Almost Life," a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs.
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Mar 23, 2026
Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came "the doom." Now she's back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
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Mar 23, 2026
A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation's cultural life.
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Mar 22, 2026
Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.
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Mar 22, 2026
In "Playmakers," Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)
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Mar 22, 2026
"Antigone" gave us the original "bad girl," but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles' ideas about democracy and theater new?
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Mar 21, 2026
As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.
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Mar 21, 2026
In "The Feather Wars," James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation's first conservationists.
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Mar 21, 2026
Our critic on three terrific new mysteries and a gem-filled story collection.
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Mar 20, 2026
You're welcome.
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Mar 20, 2026
An adaptation has a twist that doesn't track, and songs that benefit from an excellent cast, including Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs.
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Mar 20, 2026
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the "Spider-Verse" films, took lessons from "Solo: A Star Wars Story," a project from which they were dismissed.
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Mar 20, 2026
Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin's iconic paperback series.
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Mar 20, 2026
Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin's iconic paperback series.
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Mar 19, 2026
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
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Mar 19, 2026
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to "original creative expression and storytelling."
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Mar 19, 2026
Encores! revisits a Jazz Age tale of debauchery, with showstoppers from Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Jordan Donica, Tonya Pinkins and others.
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Mar 19, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 19, 2026
The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.
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Mar 19, 2026
A few editors from the New York Times's Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.
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Mar 19, 2026
The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone's favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.
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Mar 19, 2026
"I have written six books and counting just because I was very annoyed at how a character was written in a video game," she says. Her "disgusting" new novel is "Wolf Worm."
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Mar 18, 2026
"Paradiso 17," by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré.
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Mar 18, 2026
Erin Dalton, who is starting her job as New York City's social services chief, laid out her plans to tackle homelessness, benefit cuts and a budget gap in an interview.
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Mar 18, 2026
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel "Project Hail Mary," which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
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Mar 18, 2026
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel "Project Hail Mary," which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
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Mar 18, 2026
A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.
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Mar 18, 2026
Joshua Bennett's two new collections, "We" and "The People Can Fly," take different paths to the same destination.
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Mar 18, 2026
Erin Dalton, who is starting her job as commissioner of social services under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, says she'll be tackling some of the country's toughest problems.
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Mar 17, 2026
"The other Peruvian" (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and the quiet suffering of the classes underneath.
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Mar 17, 2026
During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis.
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Mar 17, 2026
His Cold War thrillers "The Ipcress File" and "Funeral in Berlin" brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
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Mar 17, 2026
Is there anyone John Lithgow can't — or won't — play?
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Mar 17, 2026
In "Chain of Ideas," Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.
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Mar 17, 2026
In a new book, Caroline Tracey explores the mysteries and beauty of salt lakes.
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Mar 16, 2026
Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
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Mar 16, 2026
Mieko Kawakami's novel "Sisters in Yellow" follows a group of dreaming and scheming young women through society's margins.
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Mar 16, 2026
In "Stay Alive," Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.
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Mar 15, 2026
After helping his family's Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.
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Mar 15, 2026
After helping his family's Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.
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Mar 15, 2026
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.
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Mar 15, 2026
She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.
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Mar 15, 2026
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.
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Mar 14, 2026
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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Mar 14, 2026
Charlotte Wood's "The Natural Way of Things" conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.
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Mar 14, 2026
At once, Mahmood Mamdani's fame was eclipsed by his son's. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father's work.
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Mar 13, 2026
Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
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Mar 13, 2026
Her best-selling book on the subject encouraged the world to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
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Mar 13, 2026
After helping his family's Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.
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Mar 13, 2026
Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.
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Mar 13, 2026
The work of the novelist Colleen Hoover has become hot property in Hollywood. Here's why studios clamor to adapt her books.
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Mar 13, 2026
From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids' books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.
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Mar 13, 2026
Jordy Rosenberg's second novel, "Night Night Fawn," approaches a closed-minded matriarch with compassion, even at her child's expense.
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Mar 12, 2026
The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors "scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation."
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Mar 12, 2026
A 1967 correspondence led Cat Sebastian to imagine a contemporary scenario in which two sci-fi actors find more than screen chemistry.
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Mar 12, 2026
The best-selling author Lisa Unger recommends her favorite dark and stormy thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and more.
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Mar 11, 2026
A writer and critic, Mr. Koch struggled for years to shepherd his friend Peter Hujar's underappreciated, Bohemian-world artwork to posthumous glory.
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Mar 11, 2026
His best-known work, "The Wall Jumper," proved prescient in its contention that the country would remain split even after reunification.
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Mar 11, 2026
In "View from the East Wing," the former first lady will recount her time in the White House and share her views on the 2024 presidential race.
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Mar 11, 2026
He moved easily and prolifically through science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, crime and historical fiction. His book "The Terror" was made into a cable TV series.
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Mar 11, 2026
In an affecting new memoir, Tom Junod, a prizewinning magazine writer, grapples with unsettling discoveries about his larger-than-life dad.
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Mar 11, 2026
From his perch in Hawaii, the hero of Patricia Finn's first novel, "The Golden Boy," revisits his dark past in rural Ontario.
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Mar 10, 2026
In Andrew Martin's keenly observed new novel, a group of friends navigate a society reshaped by the pandemic.
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Mar 10, 2026
"Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!" is a familiar reminder that growing up in showbiz can lead to awards and adulation, but also to heartache.
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Mar 10, 2026
Karan Mahajan's new novel, "The Complex," tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India.
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Mar 10, 2026
"Nonesuch," the new novel by Francis Spufford, conjures a plot laced with magic to change the course of history.
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Mar 09, 2026
His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.
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Mar 09, 2026
Greg Greeley, who once ran Amazon's books and media business, will succeed Jonathan Karp as chief executive at one of the largest book publishers in the U.S.
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Mar 09, 2026
"Gunk," a novel by Saba Sams, follows a woman through the trials and tenuous jobs of young adulthood.
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Mar 09, 2026
In "Whidbey," three women reckon with the aftermath of sexual assault.
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Mar 08, 2026
Mark Oppenheimer had many conversations with his subject for his new book. Then the relationship took a turn.
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Mar 07, 2026
She was part of the acclaimed creative teams on comic book series for DC Comics, including Swamp Thing, which she called "Shvampy" in her German accent.
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Mar 07, 2026
A newly released collection of the Australian master's short fiction shows her sympathy, her virtuosity and her ear.
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Mar 06, 2026
His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.
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Mar 06, 2026
Her landmark book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.
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Mar 06, 2026
Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, "America's Founding Son," feels so relevant.
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Mar 06, 2026
Ms. Morrison, who wrote "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon," was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.
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Mar 06, 2026
A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.
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Mar 06, 2026
She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, "Excuse My Dust."
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Mar 06, 2026
Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.
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Mar 06, 2026
Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.
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Mar 06, 2026
An iconoclastic journalist, she was known for her war coverage and her aggressive, revealing interviews with the powerful.
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Mar 06, 2026
She was recognized in 1945 for three "Soñetos de la Muerte" ("Sonnets of Death"), which were first published in Chile in 1922.
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Mar 06, 2026
She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements.
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Mar 06, 2026
She caused controversy with books like "Eichmann in Jerusalem," published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker.
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Mar 06, 2026
A star writer from the heyday of magazines reveals the family secret behind his award-winning stories.
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Mar 06, 2026
Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Arsenio Hall; essays from David Sedaris and Jesmyn Ward; plus histories, true crime, biographies and more.
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Mar 06, 2026
New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.
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Mar 06, 2026
In "Little Monk Writes Rain," "Yulu's Linen" and "Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise," spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own.
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