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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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Mar 05, 2026
The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.
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Mar 05, 2026
In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation's legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.
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Mar 05, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Book Review podcast is talking with Andy Weir about his book "Project Hail Mary" and its much-anticipated movie adaptation.
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Mar 05, 2026
The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
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Mar 05, 2026
In "Chosen Land," Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.
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Mar 05, 2026
In "Days of Love and Rage," Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war in Syria.
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Mar 05, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Mar 05, 2026
Waiting for readers of Diana Gabaldon's series to see the episode is "exciting and nerve-racking," says its star, who wrote five books during its 12-year run.
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Mar 04, 2026
The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
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Mar 04, 2026
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's new novel, "Lake Effect," is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: "Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence."
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Mar 04, 2026
In "Reproductive Wrongs," the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.
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Mar 04, 2026
A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.
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Mar 04, 2026
Ivana Sajko's novel "Every Time We Say Goodbye" explores personal and political crises in lengthy, lyrical sentences.
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Mar 04, 2026
For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville's novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.
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Mar 03, 2026
In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.
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Mar 03, 2026
In "Muv," the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.
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