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Mar 30, 2026
Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.
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Mar 30, 2026
The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul.
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Mar 30, 2026
Samuel Pepys's journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.
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Mar 30, 2026
Eddie Murphy, Snoop Dogg and Bill Clinton (naturally) show up in his gossipy new memoir. He isn't very sentimental.
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Mar 30, 2026
Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.
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Mar 30, 2026
Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.
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Mar 29, 2026
One hundred years after it was banned for its depiction of hedonism, the rhythmic, jazz-soaked poetry of Joseph Moncure March continues to find new life.
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Mar 29, 2026
In "Transcription," Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication.
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Mar 28, 2026
"The Keeper," the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, returns readers to an insular village in rural western Ireland.
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Mar 28, 2026
If you've blazed through all of the beloved crime novelist's works, here are more thrillers that may be up your dark alley.
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Mar 28, 2026
George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.
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Mar 27, 2026
Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.
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Mar 27, 2026
Although he did not speak a word of Persian, his interpretations of the 13th-century mystic's work made Rumi a New Age icon for millions.
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Mar 27, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best books.
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Mar 27, 2026
If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.
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Mar 27, 2026
In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan's novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell.
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Mar 27, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best books.
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Mar 27, 2026
Philip Stead's "A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic" gleefully ignores all the storytelling rules.
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Mar 27, 2026
Scouring estate sales, eBay and family basements, Rhae Lynn Barnes amassed a disturbing collection to write "Darkology," her groundbreaking new book.
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Mar 26, 2026
This year's winners include the latest novel by the South Korean Nobel laureate in literature and a memoir by one of India's best known novelists.
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Mar 26, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 26, 2026
Her deceased loved ones are characters on a hit TV show, her name is in the Epstein files and she's returning to "Real Housewives." What does she make of it all?
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Mar 26, 2026
In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we've become.
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Mar 26, 2026
The author Elizabeth Arnott recommends thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.
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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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