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Dec 21, 2024
These culinary coming-of-age tales are movable feasts for the gluttonous listener.
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Dec 20, 2024
She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.
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Dec 20, 2024
Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.
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Dec 20, 2024
This slim novella about one Irishman's crisis of conscience during the Christmas season is the topic of our December book club discussion.
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Dec 20, 2024
"The Troublemaker" is a brisk account of the life and work of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and democracy activist currently on trial for national security offenses.
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Dec 20, 2024
Dr. Jessica B. Harris revisits and expands "A Kwanzaa Keepsake," her highly personal book from 1995.
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Dec 20, 2024
A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the "troubling reality" of prejudice and the power of images to "undermine the very concept of difference."
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Dec 20, 2024
Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of "Fifty Shades of Grey. It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance.
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Dec 20, 2024
Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world.
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Dec 20, 2024
Like Max and Madeline, this boy and girl keep faith with the intangible treasures of their imaginations.
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Dec 20, 2024
A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their favorite books of the year.
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Dec 20, 2024
The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, "Quicksand."
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Dec 19, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dec 19, 2024
"I'm like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that's ended decades ago," he says. "A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!" is his collection of comic fiction.
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Dec 18, 2024
With "Context Collapse," Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry's origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.
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Dec 18, 2024
Curtis Chin's memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant," celebrates the cuisine and community of his youth. Now he's paying it forward.
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Dec 17, 2024
The former "S.N.L." writing partners have reunited for Rich's "superficially wacky" Broadway show, "All In: Comedy About Love."
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Dec 17, 2024
A new book about John Milton and "Paradise Lost" traces the 17th-century epic's influence and relevance through the ages.
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Dec 17, 2024
Joumana Khatib, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few books to readers looking for gifts for their loved ones.
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Dec 16, 2024
The winner of this year's National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.
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Dec 15, 2024
In "Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words," Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.
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Dec 14, 2024
The guidebook writer and television personality reflects on his cancer diagnosis, social media's corrosive effect on tourism and the transformative power of travel.
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Dec 14, 2024
In Ella Baxter's novel "Woo Woo," a feminist performance artist starts to question herself on the eve of a provocative solo exhibition.
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Dec 14, 2024
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Dec 14, 2024
The museum's poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display.
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Dec 13, 2024
He devoted his career to guarding the legacy of the philosopher known for her writings on totalitarianism and "the banality of evil."
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Dec 13, 2024
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs discuss highlights from their year in books.
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Dec 13, 2024
You don't have to know an orc from a Mumakil to enjoy the new animated adventure, though it'll certainly help.
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Dec 13, 2024
Ruth Ware, the author of "The Woman in Cabin 10," recommends locked-room mysteries and psychological horrors by Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Andy Weir and more.
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Dec 13, 2024
The protagonists of "A Day With Mousse," "Little Shrew" and "Lone Wolf Goes to School" feel happiest on their own.
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Dec 13, 2024
Three new books explore the fraught relationships between tech companies and the U.S. government through close looks at Jeff Bezos' Amazon and Elon Musk's X.
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Dec 13, 2024
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
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Dec 12, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dec 12, 2024
In "The Icon and the Idealist," Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other.
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Dec 12, 2024
Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that "offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads."
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Dec 12, 2024
"You can't read a page without laughing," says the author of "The Outsiders," who's watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.
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Dec 11, 2024
New festive stories center the many ways people celebrate the season, and each other.
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Dec 11, 2024
Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.
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Dec 11, 2024
Curl up with these transporting reads.
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Dec 11, 2024
Curl up with these transporting reads.
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Dec 10, 2024
Charles Onana and his publisher were fined for passages in a book that were found to have violated a French law making it illegal to deny an officially recognized genocide.
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Dec 10, 2024
Like many Americans of his background, his bookish aspirations were defined by what everybody else was reading, or thought they should be reading.
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Dec 10, 2024
The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her vision and herself.
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Dec 10, 2024
The poet left a long visual record of a career in the public sphere.
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Dec 10, 2024
A decade after it was published, the book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.
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Dec 10, 2024
In "Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife" the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.
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Dec 10, 2024
In "The Rest Is Memory," Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.
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Dec 10, 2024
The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is "the thrill of a life," she said.
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Dec 10, 2024
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
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Dec 09, 2024
Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers' idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters.
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Dec 09, 2024
Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.
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Dec 08, 2024
One of the most successful writers in the Chinese-speaking world, she filled her plots with twists and turns, but love always transcended all.
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Dec 08, 2024
In "A Century of Tomorrows," Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.
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Dec 08, 2024
The Nobel-winning author's husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
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Dec 08, 2024
Here are the year's most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
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Dec 08, 2024
Lucy Foley, the author of "The Guest List," recommends books about the most intimate of dramas, including twisty mysteries and all-time favorites like "Rebecca" and "Gone Girl."
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Dec 08, 2024
A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.
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Dec 07, 2024
A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story.
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Dec 07, 2024
Fabienne Josaphat's novel "Kingdom of No Tomorrow" sets a love triangle amid late-1960s Oakland and Chicago.
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Dec 07, 2024
Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America's favorite side hustle: landlording.
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Dec 07, 2024
We're in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.
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Dec 06, 2024
A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.
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Dec 06, 2024
Ilana Kaplan's new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.
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Dec 06, 2024
The print sales over the Thanksgiving weekend nearly matched the first week of Barack Obama's "A Promised Land." And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.
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Dec 06, 2024
The year's best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.
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Dec 06, 2024
The year's best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.
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Dec 06, 2024
Here are the year's most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children's books editor.
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Dec 06, 2024
A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.
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Dec 06, 2024
Lydia Reeder's "The Cure for Women" tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.
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Dec 06, 2024
The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, told its story in "Human Acts."
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Dec 05, 2024
The first week print sales nearly matched Barack Obama's "A Promised Land," and put her well ahead of Prince Harry's "Spare." And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.
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Dec 05, 2024
Our columnist picks the year's outstanding books.
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Dec 05, 2024
Our columnist picks the year's outstanding books.
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Dec 05, 2024
Frances Hardinge's "Island of Whispers" is lush and poetic, and holy moly is it eerie.
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Dec 05, 2024
Here are the novels our columnist loved most.
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Dec 05, 2024
"It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail," says the author of the best-selling "Braiding Sweetgrass." Her new book is "The Serviceberry."
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Dec 05, 2024
Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.
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Dec 04, 2024
Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York's 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, "Camera Girl."
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Dec 04, 2024
A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.
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Dec 04, 2024
An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.
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Dec 04, 2024
These lurid paperbacks offer today's readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.
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Dec 04, 2024
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
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Dec 04, 2024
Our columnist on the year's most outstanding crime novels.
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Dec 04, 2024
The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.
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Dec 03, 2024
A group of editors on the year's most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.
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Dec 03, 2024
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year's top fiction and nonfiction.
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Dec 03, 2024
In Weike Wang's novel "Rental House," a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.
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Dec 03, 2024
In "Gabriel's Moon," William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.
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Dec 03, 2024
In "Giant Love," the novelist's great-niece chronicles the Texas saga's divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that's now better known than the book.
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Dec 03, 2024
The first English translation of Charif Majdalani's 2005 novel "A History of the Big House" charts one family's — and country's — cycles of prosperity and ruin.
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Dec 02, 2024
The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.
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Dec 02, 2024
Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite's rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.
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Dec 01, 2024
In that 1970 book and others, he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
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Dec 01, 2024
The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo's novel "Apartment Women" imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.
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Nov 30, 2024
In that 1970 book and others he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
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Nov 30, 2024
An incisive new book, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life," examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.
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Nov 30, 2024
Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food.
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Nov 29, 2024
The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, "The Serviceberry," she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity.
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Nov 29, 2024
Our columnist on some recent favorites.
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Nov 29, 2024
Julia Armfield's "Private Rites" is a contemporary reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy, set in a flooded London.
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