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Dec 01, 2025
"Prince Faggot," "Figaro/Faggots" and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?
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Dec 01, 2025
"Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures," a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant nonconformist.
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Nov 30, 2025
His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.
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Nov 30, 2025
In "Girls Play Dead," Jen Percy examines the ways women respond to sexual trauma.
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Nov 29, 2025
In works like "Travesties" and "Arcadia," the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.
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Nov 29, 2025
The best-selling author B.K. Borison recommends sweet and sexy reads that capture the cozy magic of the season.
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Nov 29, 2025
Olga Tokarczuk's "House of Day, House of Night" brings together a constellation of characters and legends in a Polish border region.
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Nov 28, 2025
Her nine volumes included "Kyrie," a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.
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Nov 28, 2025
Maggie O'Farrell's historical novel, one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2020, has just been adapted for film, making now a perfect time to revisit this story of family, grief and Shakespeare.
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Nov 28, 2025
In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan's latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.
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Nov 28, 2025
Jennifer L. Holm's "Outside" and Rebecca Stead's "The Experiment" both feature well-meaning grown-ups who do everything to protect their kids — and fail.
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Nov 27, 2025
Pick up a mug of tea, grab a blanket and settle down to read. Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books that are perfect for cozy fall reading.
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Nov 27, 2025
Three recently released children's books focus on gems, fine jewelry and even collectible watches.
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Nov 27, 2025
"It's all about the texture," says the author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and the new "Letter From Japan." Both fit the bill.
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Nov 26, 2025
For Janeites around the globe, the 250th anniversary of the English author's birth is cause for elaborate celebrations.
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Nov 26, 2025
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
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Nov 26, 2025
The "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" actor and the author of "Alphabetical Diaries" met for a wide-ranging conversation.
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Nov 26, 2025
New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more.
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Nov 26, 2025
In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.
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Nov 25, 2025
My students' easy access to chatbots forced me to make humanities instruction even more human.
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Nov 24, 2025
The actor is now playing an adult version of the sinister child he portrayed in the film series.
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Nov 24, 2025
In the thrilling "Family of Spies," Christine Kuehn tells the story of learning the darkest of secrets.
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Nov 24, 2025
For the obsessed protagonist of Marisa Kashino's darkly comic debut novel, "Best Offer Wins," real estate is blood sport.
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Nov 24, 2025
The best-selling author B.K. Borison recommends sweet and sexy reads that capture the cozy magic of the season.
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Nov 23, 2025
Carla Kaplan's biography "Troublemaker" focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for "The American Way of Death."
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Nov 22, 2025
She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.
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Nov 22, 2025
The writer and YouTube star on trying to get back to the experiences that make us feel alive.
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Nov 22, 2025
The writer and YouTube star on trying to get back to the experiences that make us feel alive.
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Nov 22, 2025
The title of Daniel Swift's book "The Dream Factory," about the creative and capitalist conditions of Elizabethan drama, tellingly evokes the commercial aspirations of old Hollywood.
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Nov 21, 2025
It began with Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize in October, and continued this month with the Booker Prize and the National Book Awards. Our panel of editors discusses what it all means.
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Nov 21, 2025
He turned an obsession with forgotten stars into a popular series, long before "Where Are They Now?" features became ubiquitous.
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Nov 21, 2025
Like her debut, "The Dive From Clausen's Pier," the novelist's "Some Bright Nowhere" is bound to touch a nerve. That's fine with her.
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Nov 21, 2025
How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today.
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Nov 21, 2025
Eleven recommendations for fans of Rick Riordan's Olympians series, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
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Nov 20, 2025
He translated nearly 30 books, including novels by Georges Perec, a master of linguistic games, and Ismail Kadare.
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Nov 20, 2025
A family's forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was sold by Heritage Auctions.
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Nov 20, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 20, 2025
In "Doctor Dolittle's Delusion," he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief to the contrary.
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Nov 20, 2025
A family's forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was $9.12 million, with fees.
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Nov 20, 2025
He turned an obsession with forgotten stars into a popular series, long before "Where Are They Now?" features became ubiquitous.
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Nov 20, 2025
David Lebovitz has built a loyal following online with recipes that offer shortcuts but make no compromises.
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Nov 20, 2025
Our columnist on three books worth your time.
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Nov 20, 2025
"Journalism is essential, but it can't get at certain levels of experience — so I wrote a fable," he says of "The Emergency," his first novel in more than 25 years.
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Nov 19, 2025
Rabih Alameddine's "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)" won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad's reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.
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Nov 19, 2025
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher's books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.
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Nov 19, 2025
In "The Butterfly Thief," Walter Marsh tells the story of a notorious crime and its eccentric perpetrator.
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Nov 19, 2025
In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it.
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Nov 18, 2025
The movie star plays a man from the future at the 1939 New York World's Fair in an adaptation of some of his stories. Kelli O'Hara shines as his love interest.
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Nov 18, 2025
The Danish author Solvej Balle's experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders.
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Nov 18, 2025
Our columnist on four books that are worth your time.
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Nov 18, 2025
The Danish author Solvej Balle's experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders.
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Nov 18, 2025
In "The Breath of the Gods," the prolific polymath takes on a force that's powered much of human history.
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Nov 18, 2025
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.
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Nov 18, 2025
The science fiction writer Chloe Gong recommends new and classic books that push the boundaries of the genre, with plenty of techno thrills.
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Nov 18, 2025
A newly reissued book by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar highlights his most consistent qualities.
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Nov 18, 2025
The author's newly unveiled papers reveal the meticulous planning and devotion to cooking that went into her big holiday meals.
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Nov 17, 2025
The wildly popular fiction genre allows readers to talk openly about yearning, sex and desire. And it's spilling over into their bedrooms.
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Nov 17, 2025
Jan Kerouac's 1981 novel "Baby Driver" chronicles a fearless and windblown life entirely distinct from her famous parent's.
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Nov 17, 2025
With "Lovers and Haters," Gilbert Hernandez expands on the surreal storytelling and bosomy B-movie film stars of his beloved long-running series.
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Nov 17, 2025
Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
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Nov 16, 2025
At its best, Joy Williams's "The Pelican Child" is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive.
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Nov 16, 2025
Our columnist on three novels thrumming with menace.
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Nov 16, 2025
Even the previously uncollected work in "The Poems of Seamus Heaney" shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.
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Nov 15, 2025
In "The Fire," the reporter Cecilia Sala travels to Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan and follows her generation into the fray.
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Nov 15, 2025
The unlikely collaboration of two academics, "Convent Wisdom" provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture.
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Nov 14, 2025
In "Baldwin: A Love Story," Nicholas Boggs focuses on the writer's romantic relationships. In this episode he explains their importance to Baldwin's life and work.
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Nov 14, 2025
In "Crick: A Mind in Motion," the British biologist Matthew Cobb provides a biography both vivid and authoritative.
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Nov 14, 2025
"Come See Me in the Good Light" follows the writer and their wife as they experienced the pain of cancer and also the joy of living.
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Nov 14, 2025
In Derrick Barnes's fantastical tale, a 13-year-old Black football star is idolized by his town's mostly white inhabitants, until they turn on him.
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Nov 13, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 13, 2025
Sarah Hall's inventive new novel spans centuries, showing how Britain's famed Helm shaped people and how people are shaping it.
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Nov 13, 2025
Thanks to distinct design, fresh approaches to the genre and the if-you-know-you-know factor, 831 Stories is catching the eye of readers and investors.
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Nov 13, 2025
Our columnist on four new mysteries.
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Nov 13, 2025
His new novel, "Palaver," observes how an expat in Japan and his visiting mother find "a new language and way of being that's amenable for them both."
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Nov 12, 2025
He wrote of his suffocating relationship with his mother to create mordant reminiscences and became a standout at poetry slams in New York.
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Nov 12, 2025
"The Slip," by Lucas Schaefer, involves a missing teenager and a boxing gym full of Texans of all stripes.
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Nov 12, 2025
The explosive potential of those years makes every emotion more intense — and a perfect combo for rich storytelling.
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Nov 12, 2025
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new novel, "Terry Dactyl," follows a young trans woman figuring out who she is throughout the AIDS crisis and Covid pandemic.
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Nov 11, 2025
During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.
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Nov 11, 2025
In her vivid epistolary novel "The White Hot," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.
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Nov 11, 2025
In "Fateful Hours," the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.
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Nov 11, 2025
George Packer, the author of multiple works on a divided America, tries his hand at dystopian allegory.
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Nov 11, 2025
In "Without Consent," Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women's ongoing struggle for justice.
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Nov 11, 2025
A visit to the English manor that inspired "A Secret Garden" or a stroll through Tintin's Brussels can turn stories into treasured memories.
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Nov 11, 2025
The actor had to read so many books (153) she bowed out of most family activities. Still, she said, collaborating to pick a winner was worth the sacrifice.
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Nov 11, 2025
The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don't expect him to try to win you over.
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Nov 10, 2025
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book "singular" and "extraordinary."
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Nov 10, 2025
The host and author discusses "Padma's All American," which sees immigrants at the heart of the nation's cuisine.
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Nov 10, 2025
By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.
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Nov 10, 2025
The TV chef discusses her new cookbook, "Padma's All American," which sees immigrants at the heart of the nation's cuisine.
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Nov 10, 2025
Ann Packer's latest novel, "Some Bright Nowhere," explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage.
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Nov 10, 2025
Now unjustly overlooked, "The Ha-Ha" is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.
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Nov 10, 2025
In "The American Revolution," an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.
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Nov 09, 2025
Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams's "The History of Money" is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now.
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Nov 09, 2025
Jean-Philippe Pleau's book and play about moving up socially became a cultural reckoning in Quebec, but created a gulf with his family.
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Nov 09, 2025
Andrew Miller's novel "The Land in Winter," a finalist for the Booker Prize, observes a world on the brink of cultural change.
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Nov 08, 2025
Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British writer has something for (almost) everyone.
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Nov 08, 2025
In Britain, he sought to be "free not to have to puff some prince's wedding / free to say up yours to Tony Blair."
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Nov 07, 2025
John U. Bacon, author of "The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald" talks about the famous shipwreck.
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Nov 07, 2025
A novelist and biographer, she was also a preservationist, and her meticulous investigations of houses, villages and cities revealed intricate histories.
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