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May 15, 2026
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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May 15, 2026
The author of the InvestiGators series recommends books from his childhood as well as more recent faves.
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May 15, 2026
The best-selling author Vaishnavi Patel recommends speculative fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Olivie Blake and more that speaks to our world today.
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May 15, 2026
Stefanie Joseph and Christopher Richards, who met on a dating app three years ago, immediately bonded over their love of reading.
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May 14, 2026
For 20 years, he hid his identity behind the nom de plume Foolbert Sturgeon as he chronicled Christ's encounters with modern-day hypocrites in comic-book form.
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May 14, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 14, 2026
At 50, on a lark, she published a romance novel with her husband, Michael Fain. Like their characters, they found their lives transformed by unexpected success.
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May 14, 2026
Sometimes called the Stephen King of Japan, he helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made.
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May 14, 2026
On her new album, "Norteña," the singer embraces regional traditions and unlocks her most personal songwriting yet.
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May 14, 2026
A reporter's essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia.
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May 14, 2026
"Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be," the Oscar-winning actress and author says. "But it is good exercise."
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May 13, 2026
His "Ring" trilogy helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned a multimedia franchise, including one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made.
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May 13, 2026
Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d'Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas's tale.
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May 13, 2026
The best-selling author Lynn Painter recommends low-heat love stories that deliver on juicy tension, crackling banter and plenty of swoon.
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May 12, 2026
The best-selling author and collector explains what draws him to add to his own bookshelves.
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May 12, 2026
What to expect at the book fair in the Saatchi Gallery.
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May 12, 2026
Here's a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.
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May 12, 2026
In Veronica Roth's "Seek the Traitor's Son," a soldier in a pandemic-ravaged world is forced to become the hope of her people.
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May 12, 2026
In "AI for Good," Josh Tyrangiel talks to the classrooms, hospitals and research labs where people are using artificial intelligence that might benefit society.
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May 12, 2026
"Nerve Damage," by Annakeara Stinson, is a jittery psychological thriller about a woman whose creepy ex simply won't let her go.
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May 11, 2026
"Men Like Ours," a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.
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May 11, 2026
With the help of a forensic artist, Amitav Ghosh puts a face to the name of Varsha Gupta, the central figure of his new novel, "Ghost Eye."
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May 11, 2026
Suzanne Simard's new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.
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May 10, 2026
Three new books — a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir and a dual biography — provide divergent views on the business of buying and selling, and they are out just in time for New York Art Week.
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May 10, 2026
In John Lanchester's "Look What You Made Me Do," a widow is unnerved when a hit TV series airs details from her marriage a little too closely.
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May 09, 2026
The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.
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May 09, 2026
Rita Collins had a dream for her retirement: bringing books and people together all over the country. Behind the wheel of a van she's making it happen.
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May 09, 2026
In "Selling Opportunity," Mary Lisa Gavenas tells the not-always-rosy story of Mary Kay, the brand — and its founder.
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May 09, 2026
As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.
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May 08, 2026
Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.
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May 08, 2026
Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be "punishing." Still, some considered him one of England's most important poets.
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May 08, 2026
"Wild Swans," a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao's regime.
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May 08, 2026
The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep's clothing.
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May 08, 2026
From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.
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May 08, 2026
As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.
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May 08, 2026
In "One Leg on Earth," a young college grad's idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.
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May 08, 2026
In "Screen People," Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.
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May 08, 2026
The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.
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May 08, 2026
In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.
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May 08, 2026
"A Rumor of War," about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed "the things men do in war and the things war does to them."
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May 07, 2026
Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.
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May 07, 2026
Fonda Lee's "cyberpunk samurai in space" novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.
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May 06, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 06, 2026
In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul community for insights into Turkey's hard-right turn.
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May 06, 2026
What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Show" on Broadway? Fishnets, five-inch heels, and an endless supply of glitter.
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May 06, 2026
Our columnist on the month's standout books.
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May 06, 2026
Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.
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May 06, 2026
The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
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May 05, 2026
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.
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May 05, 2026
"The Family Man," by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.
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May 05, 2026
Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark's "The Hill" portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother's jail cell and the world outside.
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May 05, 2026
"Riverwork," by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.
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May 05, 2026
In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.
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May 05, 2026
Séamas O'Reilly's new novel is a boisterous sendup of "prestige" media and its distortion of Northern Ireland's complex past.
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
"We the People," by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for "Angel Down."
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May 04, 2026
In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.
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May 04, 2026
"The Things We Never Say" leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.
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May 04, 2026
In the powerful and surprising "John of John," Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he'd left behind.
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May 03, 2026
Her new memoir, "True Crime," traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world's most famous thriller writers.
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May 03, 2026
Kathryn Stockett's prodigious second novel, "The Calamity Club," brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.
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May 03, 2026
It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was "fired" by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she's back on home turf with "The Calamity Club."
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May 02, 2026
In "The Successor," the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.
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May 02, 2026
In her memoir "Backtalker," Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw shows how personal trauma spurred her influential and controversial ideas about race and gender.
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May 01, 2026
Need a Mother's Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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May 01, 2026
Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl's wake.
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Apr 30, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 30, 2026
"When I love something, I urgently must put it in someone's hands," says the novelist, whose new "Last Night in Brooklyn" is an ode to old-style friendship.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 30, 2026
Benjamin Hale's book "Cave Mountain" connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.
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Apr 29, 2026
On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
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Apr 29, 2026
The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad's new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Prophecy," Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
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Apr 29, 2026
Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.
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Apr 29, 2026
In "Japanese Gothic," a 21st-century college student and a 19th-century samurai find themselves occupying the same house.
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Apr 28, 2026
In "Project Maven," Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input.
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Apr 28, 2026
The German writer Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy crackles with life and unsparing details of a broken society.
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Apr 27, 2026
Declared a national living treasure in 1997, he wrote poetry and short stories but was best known for his nine novels, including "The Great World."
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Apr 27, 2026
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature.
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Apr 27, 2026
A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.
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Apr 27, 2026
The nonfiction and novels we can't stop thinking about.
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Apr 27, 2026
The music journalist Bob Spitz, a keeper of numerous rock 'n' roll flames, has turned out a colorful and authoritative new take on a much-documented band.
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Apr 26, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Apr 26, 2026
A middle-aged novelist sifts through memories of growing up in New Jersey in Tom Perrotta's frustratingly formulaic book.
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Apr 26, 2026
In her engaging, sympathetic book "Like, Follow, Subscribe," the journalist Fortesa Latifi digs into growing up in the spotlight.
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Apr 26, 2026
Jordan Harper knows the entertainment industry from the inside out. His new novel, "A Violent Masterpiece," holds nothing back.
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Apr 25, 2026
In her engaging, lyrical "Homesick for a World Unknown," Miriam Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller.
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Apr 25, 2026
It's National Poetry Month! Greg Cowles, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends some poetry books while writing poems with fridge magnets.
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Apr 25, 2026
"If you tell me eight o'clock," the film and martial arts star said, "I will be there 10 or 15 minutes before and wait."
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Apr 25, 2026
The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated "even if we don't hear a single one of his words."
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Apr 25, 2026
In "The Radiant Dark," life is upended after humanity receives a signal from a distant planet. But extraterrestrial contact takes a back seat to more earthly problems.
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Apr 24, 2026
The protagonist of this debut novel wants to get her bathroom upgraded. It becomes a portal to a Turkish prison cell instead.
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Apr 24, 2026
In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner's new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.
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Apr 24, 2026
In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.
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Apr 24, 2026
In his chatty, compulsively readable first book for adults, Mac Barnett champions his career choice and urges our culture to hold kids in higher esteem.
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Apr 23, 2026
The best-selling author Kelly Yang recommends mysteries set in Tinseltown, from the down and dirty to the deliciously dishy.
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Apr 23, 2026
In a host of books and articles as a political scientist, he attacked received ideas on the battle of the sexes, the usefulness of high school math and other subjects.
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Apr 22, 2026
Our columnist says Jordan Harper's "A Violent Masterpiece" is just that: a violent masterpiece.
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Apr 22, 2026
In "Israel: What Went Wrong?," Omer Bartov charts how a nation founded in the wake of trauma abandoned the emancipatory impulse of its origins.
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