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Sep 12, 2025
"Fit for Life," which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.
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Sep 12, 2025
It's not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
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Sep 12, 2025
The season brings histories by Jill Lepore, David McCullough and Joseph J. Ellis, memoirs by Margaret Atwood and Susan Orlean, and more.
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Sep 12, 2025
The novelist's sheet music collection reveals new perspectives on her life and work.
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Sep 12, 2025
It's not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
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Sep 12, 2025
In "Night Watch," Kevin Young riffs on Dante's "Inferno" and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation's past.
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Sep 12, 2025
A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening.
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Sep 12, 2025
Fifty years after "'Salem's Lot," Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.
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Sep 12, 2025
Mimi Pond's new graphic novel spins a cinematic romp out of the British aristocrats' lives and loves: "You can't make this stuff up."
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Sep 12, 2025
In Nicholas Day's "A World Without Summer," Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for "Frankenstein."
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Sep 12, 2025
Alexandra Alter, who covers publishing industry news and writes Books features for The Times, is always on the hunt for the next Harry Potter.
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Sep 11, 2025
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
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Sep 11, 2025
With "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Sep 11, 2025
Here are some of our staff's favorites, for ages 0 to 2.
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Sep 11, 2025
She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish "Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift."
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Sep 10, 2025
In "Boy From the North Country," a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.
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Sep 10, 2025
In "The Blood in Winter," Jonathan Healey explores the many causes of the English Civil War.
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Sep 10, 2025
"Fresh Sets," by Tembe Denton-Hurst, surveys some of the coolest contemporary designs from around the world.
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Sep 10, 2025
Our columnist on three notable recent novels.
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Sep 10, 2025
In her memoir, the whistle-blower explores the motives behind the leak that sent her to prison.
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Sep 10, 2025
Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.
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Sep 10, 2025
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
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Sep 09, 2025
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
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Sep 09, 2025
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of "Eat, Pray, Love," delves into her struggle with an obsessive relationship in a new memoir.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Heritage Foundation's clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
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Sep 09, 2025
"The Secret of Secrets" follows Robert Langdon as he tries to rescue his lover, a neuroscientist who is targeted by a mysterious organization after a breakthrough.
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Sep 08, 2025
In a studiously bland new book, "Listening to the Law," the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court's recent controversies.
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Sep 08, 2025
In "All the Way to the River," the best-selling writer dilutes a powerful story of love, addiction and loss with saccharine self-indulgence.
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Sep 08, 2025
The popular science writer, whose new book is "Replaceable You," has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more.
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Sep 07, 2025
A longtime resident, he devoted his career to Historic Richmond Town and Sailors' Snug Harbor, two of the borough's most important cultural institutions.
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Sep 07, 2025
Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Sep 07, 2025
In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for "Two and a Half Men," "Platoon" and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.
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Sep 07, 2025
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three great books that came out this summer.
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Sep 07, 2025
Now 74 and "close to handing in my dinner pail," the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
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Sep 07, 2025
The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in "Schattenfroh," stretching the limits of fiction in the process.
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Sep 07, 2025
Keira D'Amato retired from running at 24, but a decade later she was back and setting marathon records. A new memoir details her journey, which is still unfolding.
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Sep 07, 2025
Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece.
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Sep 06, 2025
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
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Sep 06, 2025
Andrew Davies has spent more than four decades spinning novels from "Pride and Prejudice" to "House of Cards" into small-screen gold.
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Sep 06, 2025
In his new novel, John Boyne challenges readers to examine the often ignored shadow of abuse.
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Sep 06, 2025
In Lee Lai's "Cannon," a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can't stand it any longer.
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Sep 05, 2025
Watch for new books by Dan Brown, Thomas Pynchon, Mona Awad and more.
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Sep 05, 2025
In "Ghosted," Alice Vernon explores the human urge to pierce the veil — and the many mediums, charlatans and true believers who made it an enduring industry.
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Sep 05, 2025
A new memoir finds the self-help icon locked in a destructive romantic relationship with her best friend, who relapsed while fighting terminal cancer.
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Sep 05, 2025
"The Secret of Secrets," the sixth installment in Dan Brown's franchise about the symbologist Robert Langdon, brings the bookish hero back to a European capital to unravel a shocking conspiracy.
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Sep 05, 2025
Echoing backward to the sixth century and forward to "The Lion King," the play shows young people that stories are resilient against time and chaos.
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Sep 04, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 04, 2025
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
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Sep 04, 2025
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
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Sep 04, 2025
The author of the Slough House novels — the latest one is "Clown Town" — has an eclectic stack on his nightstand.
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Sep 04, 2025
Born dirt poor, Victoria Woodhull rose to heights of wealth and fame in the Gilded Age, reinventing herself along the way. A sprightly new biography recounts her unlikely story.
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Sep 04, 2025
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
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Sep 04, 2025
Check out books by Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Joe Hill, and revisit familiar worlds with Dan Brown, Mick Herron and Bolu Babalola.
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Sep 04, 2025
Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.
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Sep 04, 2025
Kiran Desai has returned with her most ambitious novel yet: "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny," a sprawling romance that was all-consuming to complete.
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Sep 04, 2025
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
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Sep 03, 2025
Inspired by his parents' travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father's safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters.
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Sep 03, 2025
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
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Sep 03, 2025
"Sympathy Tower Tokyo," which was a best seller in Japan, is a social novel for the age of A.I.
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Sep 03, 2025
The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century's most famous agitators.
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Sep 03, 2025
In "The Arrogant Ape," the primatologist Christine Webb takes a hard look at our human superiority complex, and is not impressed.
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Sep 03, 2025
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.'
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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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