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Mar 18, 2025
His "Be Your Own House Plant Expert" and other best-selling manuals were a fixture of British life for half a century. Among his many fans was Margaret Thatcher.
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Mar 18, 2025
"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original "Hunger Games" novels.
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Mar 18, 2025
"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original "Hunger Games" novels.
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Mar 18, 2025
In "Changing My Mind," the novelist Julian Barnes presents an argument for the joys of flexibility.
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Mar 18, 2025
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era's disturbing political realities.
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Mar 18, 2025
In "Abundance," Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump's return to power.
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Mar 18, 2025
In the novel "Theft," by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s Tanzania.
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Mar 17, 2025
In the memoir "Firstborn," Lauren Christensen writes about losing the daughter she was expecting.
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Mar 17, 2025
The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose "A Place Called Yellowstone" chronicles a landscape "capable of bridging ideological divides."
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Mar 17, 2025
Saou Ichikawa's award-winning novel, "Hunchback," is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, cynical mind.
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Mar 17, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best releases.
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Mar 17, 2025
Kristen Arnett's new novel, "Stop Me if You've Heard This One," follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.
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Mar 16, 2025
In Stuart Nadler's novel "Rooms for Vanishing," four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.
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Mar 16, 2025
In "The Fisherman's Gift," a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town's suppressed drama.
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Mar 16, 2025
In "Funny Because It's True," Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.
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Mar 15, 2025
In "Saving Five," Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.
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Mar 15, 2025
"Sunrise on the Reaping" further expands the world of Panem, focusing on Haymitch Abernathy's story.
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Mar 15, 2025
In "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter," a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America's sins.
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Mar 15, 2025
Marcy Dermansky's novel "Hot Air" plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.
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Mar 15, 2025
For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they're facing an altered landscape. So is he.
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Mar 14, 2025
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller's once-banned book and helped make "A Confederacy of Dunces" a best seller after the author's death.
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Mar 14, 2025
The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era's power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.
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Mar 14, 2025
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life's work to share the richness of Iranian culture. "Song of the North," at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
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Mar 14, 2025
When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.
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Mar 14, 2025
In "Red Scare," Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
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Mar 14, 2025
In her children's stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.
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Mar 14, 2025
Vincenzo Latronico's novel "Perfection" explores the capital of Europe's expat scene in its heyday.
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Mar 13, 2025
At a time when, in his words, "nobody was writing about gay life," he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.
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Mar 13, 2025
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, football and the Olympics, many of them best sellers.
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Mar 13, 2025
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her "Ireland's greatest writer."
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Mar 13, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 13, 2025
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
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Mar 13, 2025
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
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Mar 13, 2025
New accounts of working in a man's world — and that world's comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.
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Mar 13, 2025
His memoir "Growing Up" depicted her hometown "like a shining city on a hill." Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now childrens' book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.
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Mar 13, 2025
What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees's hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.
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Mar 12, 2025
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
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Mar 12, 2025
Watch for a new "Hunger Games" prequel; a quirky romance from Emily Henry; novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ocean Vuong; and more.
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Mar 12, 2025
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion's diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.
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Mar 12, 2025
Karen Russell's "The Antidote" is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.
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Mar 12, 2025
Fernando A. Flores's new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It's a blast.
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Mar 12, 2025
Fernando A. Flores's new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It's a blast.
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Mar 11, 2025
"The Next One Is for You" chronicles the effects of the Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Mar 11, 2025
A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network's turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.
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Mar 11, 2025
In Lawrence Wright's new thriller, an Arab American F.B.I. agent and an Israeli cop take on an intractable conflict.
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Mar 11, 2025
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer's imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood.
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Mar 10, 2025
"Careless People," a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
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Mar 10, 2025
"Sons and Daughters," Chaim Grade's serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time.
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Mar 10, 2025
Elon Green's telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.
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Mar 10, 2025
It's not easy, but here's how Mark Krotov, the publisher of the literary magazine n 1, attempts it, often with his 6-year-old daughter along for the ride.
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Mar 09, 2025
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles.
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Mar 09, 2025
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life's work.
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Mar 09, 2025
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life's work.
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Mar 09, 2025
"The Tokyo Suite" explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.
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Mar 09, 2025
Our critic on Deanna Raybourn's "Kills Well With Others" and three more new books.
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Mar 08, 2025
An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with "all the things that have to happen for us to get our food."
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Mar 08, 2025
A memoir of Italy; notes on Canada.
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Mar 08, 2025
The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.
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Mar 08, 2025
In "Air-Borne," his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.
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Mar 08, 2025
In "Stag Dance," Torrey Peters probes the complicated, evolving realities of queerness and trans life.
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Mar 07, 2025
Her "Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself," a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.
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Mar 07, 2025
A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories.
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Mar 07, 2025
Every season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this spring is no different. On this episode Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about a dozen or so titles that sound interesting in the months ahead.
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Mar 07, 2025
Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Stockett's debut novel became a best seller, but was also heavily criticized for its portrayal of Black characters. Now, she has written second novel, "The Calamity Club."
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Mar 07, 2025
In Linda Joan Smith's "The Peach Thief," an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden.
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Mar 07, 2025
Sally Kim, president and publisher at Little, Brown and Company, wants to give everyone a seat at the table.
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Mar 07, 2025
The novel "Goddess Complex," by Sanjena Sathian, takes a sharp turn from an existential crisis into a more literal one.
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Mar 07, 2025
Novelized accounts of historical figures' lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?
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Mar 06, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 06, 2025
But a full calendar meant carving out time for "Theft," his new book and first since winning the prize.
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Mar 05, 2025
The novel, "Sparrow and Vine" by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books. Readers with advance copies criticized passages that they found racist — or that praised Elon Musk.
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Mar 05, 2025
A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German.
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Mar 05, 2025
Didion's influential account of the era, "The White Album," captures the ripples of terror provoked by the 1969 murders.
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Mar 05, 2025
Five recent books collect photographs, memories and ephemera from the hardcore band Agnostic Front, the mysterious dance artist Aphex Twin, the rap collective Odd Future and more.
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Mar 05, 2025
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors "scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation."
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Mar 05, 2025
A cache of family documents led a journalist to discover the source of the wealth that allowed his family to remake life in Australia after surviving World War II in Europe.
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Mar 05, 2025
A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better.
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Mar 05, 2025
In a new essay collection, A. Kendra Greene translates her experiences of our bizarre and marvelous world.
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Mar 05, 2025
Jinwoo Chong's new novel, "I Leave It Up to You," is a story of food, family and new beginnings after a tragedy.
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Mar 04, 2025
Before she published "To Kill a Mockingbird," Lee had written short stories in which she explored some of its themes and characters.
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Mar 04, 2025
In Agustina Bazterrica's new novel, "The Unworthy," a dystopian future ravaged by climate change has stripped the world of food, water and human connection.
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Mar 04, 2025
As the Trump administration pushes for renewed business ties with Russia, a new book looks back at the companies that helped prop up illiberalism in the country.
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Mar 04, 2025
A new memoir by the historian Martha S. Jones combines a trenchant analysis of race and the historical record with a homage to other Black women scholars.
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Mar 04, 2025
In Laila Lalami's new novel, a woman finds herself trapped in a nightmarish system of surveillance and detention.
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Mar 03, 2025
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, she went on to write about "hookup culture" and young women's sexual experiences for The Washington Post and in a best-selling book.
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Mar 03, 2025
He won a National Book Award for "Spartina," beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island.
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Mar 03, 2025
"How to End a Story" collects three volumes of the Australian novelist's self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.
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Mar 03, 2025
Two new memoirs show the commonalities — and differences — in the end of every marriage.
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Mar 02, 2025
A lavish photo book collects images old and new of elaborate estates, manors, chateaus and Schlosses in the European countryside.
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Mar 02, 2025
In "Taking Manhattan," Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center of the world.
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Mar 02, 2025
Sarah Lyall, who writes the monthly thrillers column for The New York Times Book Review, recommends four of her favorite thriller novels.
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Mar 02, 2025
In her first novel since "Americanah," she draws on a real-life assault as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers.
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Mar 02, 2025
In Jeremy Gordon's novel, "See Friendship," a journalist reinvestigates his past, only to discover the story he was told about his friend's death wasn't true.
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Mar 02, 2025
Two teenage boys set out north with few plans and plenty of frustrations in Vijay Khurana's novel, "The Passenger Seat."
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Mar 01, 2025
A Scott and Zelda roman à clef; a photo collection of 1920s Paris.
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Mar 01, 2025
In Charlotte McConaghy's novel "Wild Dark Shore," the caretakers of a remote research base brave an escalating crisis.
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Mar 01, 2025
When her father died, the author of "Americanah" produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.
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Mar 01, 2025
In her memoir, "Raising Hare," Chloe Dalton describes how a leveret changed her outlook on life during the pandemic and beyond.
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Feb 28, 2025
She gave voice to an overlooked French-speaking population in Canada, adapting an archaic language that had survived through oral tradition.
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Feb 28, 2025
Harvey's novel about six astronauts living and working on the International Space Station won the 2024 Booker Prize.
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