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Oct 26, 2025
In the transporting monograph "Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real," the gifted young photographer traces a path from high fashion to his Georgia roots.
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Oct 26, 2025
In "When All the Men Wore Hats," Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.
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Oct 26, 2025
A plea for humanism and honesty, "The Rose Field" wraps up the fantastical saga set in motion with "His Dark Materials."
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Oct 25, 2025
Erica Ackerberg, a Times photo editor, calls the photographer Tyler Mitchell to chat about three photos from his new book, "Wish This Was Real."
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Oct 25, 2025
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
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Oct 25, 2025
The actor, now 87, talks about his childhood, the epiphanies in his life and more.
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Oct 25, 2025
Our critic on four sizzling new releases.
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Oct 24, 2025
Basketball and Dua Lipa are on the schedule during a New York jaunt with the Nobel laureate, whose intimate memoir finds her juggling activism and married life.
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Oct 24, 2025
Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead.
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Oct 24, 2025
"Giving myself freedom" has been Chris Kraus's goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising "working-class saga."
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Oct 24, 2025
I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in "The Story of Babar." My daughter was freaked out by "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Then came my niece.
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Oct 23, 2025
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
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Oct 23, 2025
The beloved British fantasy writer Philip Pullman concludes his Book of Dust trilogy with Lyra Belacqua's final adventure.
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Oct 23, 2025
"Joyride," her new book, started as a guide for aspiring journalists, but turned into a full-fledged memoir about her high-flying life and career.
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Oct 23, 2025
I named my daughter after Lyra, his intrepid protagonist. Now, in the final installment of the blockbuster fantasy saga, we get to see how she turned out.
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Oct 23, 2025
In "Horror's New Wave," Jason Blum celebrates 15 years of unnerving audiences. His advice to publishers: "Sometimes it's good to rely on your gut."
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Unabridged," Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade.
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Motherland," the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country's failure to live up to that promise.
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Oct 22, 2025
In "Pride and Pleasure," the biographer Amanda Vaill tells the story of these complex women with warmth, humor and insight.
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Oct 22, 2025
The thriller writer Hank Phillippi Ryan recommends seemingly impossible, deeply satisfying whodunits.
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Oct 21, 2025
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France's National Library is raising money to buy it.
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Oct 21, 2025
"The Land of Sweet Forever" includes stories and essays by a writer who grappled with her Southern roots.
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Oct 21, 2025
In "Capturing Kahanamoku," the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a beautiful sport.
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Oct 21, 2025
The tidying expert has just published a new book about travel's impact on her life. She shares tips for how to encounter the world, and, maybe, leave it a little better after your visit.
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Oct 21, 2025
In Nic Stone's new book, "Boom Town," a dancer at a strip club in Atlanta must search for her peers who have disappeared.
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Oct 21, 2025
Joe Hill's wild horror novel follows a group of friends and the mythic demon that haunts them for the rest of their lives.
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Oct 21, 2025
Olivie Blake's darkly comedic campus novel "Girl Dinner" explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
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Oct 21, 2025
Olivie Blake's darkly comedic campus novel "Girl Dinner" explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
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Oct 21, 2025
Our critic on four notable releases.
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Oct 20, 2025
In "Winston and the Windsors," the prolific biographer Andrew Morton, perhaps inevitably, tackles two British behemoths.
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Oct 20, 2025
The prolific novelist's correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures.
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Oct 20, 2025
The beloved British fantasy writer Philip Pullman concludes his Book of Dust trilogy with Lyra Belacqua's final adventure.
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Oct 19, 2025
"Every Day Is Sunday," by a New York Times reporter, tracks the dominant influence of Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft and Roger Goodell.
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Oct 19, 2025
In Hiromi Kawakami's new novel, a young woman responds to her husband's infidelities in creative ways.
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Oct 19, 2025
Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history.
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Oct 18, 2025
She started as the magazine's glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.
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Oct 18, 2025
In "The Ten Year Affair," the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother's infidelity.
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Oct 18, 2025
A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher's restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.
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Oct 18, 2025
Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.
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Oct 18, 2025
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who've tuned in to the zaniness all along.
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Oct 17, 2025
It's October, which means it's time for the master of horror to shine. Yet he's become equally famous for several works of non-horror.
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Oct 17, 2025
Caroline Palmer's novel, "Workhorse," emphasizes striving and grit in a debut set at a moment when glossy magazines were losing their cachet.
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Oct 17, 2025
James Van Der Zee's baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.
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Oct 17, 2025
Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways.
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Oct 16, 2025
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet's inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.
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Oct 16, 2025
His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers.
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Oct 16, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 16, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous "Nobody's Girl" doesn't break political news, but might break your heart.
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Oct 16, 2025
In "Morbidly Curious," the behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner takes a look at our addiction to the gory, the morbid and the grotesque.
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Oct 16, 2025
The new and selected poems in Ada Limón's "Startlement" reveal her to be garrulous, funny and heart-on-sleeve even when she's being a little wicked.
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Oct 16, 2025
In the powerful new history "The Zorg," Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience.
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Oct 16, 2025
"I look for the subjective pulse of the author," says the novelist, hailing Hamsun while sensing "cynicism" in Nabokov. "A Wooded Shore" is his 18th book.
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Oct 15, 2025
The pop star's ex-husband Kevin Federline had said in a new book that since her conservatorship ended, "It's become impossible to pretend everything's OK."
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Oct 15, 2025
"Spunk," a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.
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Oct 15, 2025
Branching plots and dark humor animate "Eye of the Monkey," set in an unnamed dystopian country.
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Oct 15, 2025
In "Three or More Is a Riot," the Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb collects his writings on race and culture for The New Yorker.
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Oct 15, 2025
The author of "Vampires of El Norte" and "The Possession of Alba Díaz" recommends books that dial up the darkness by turning back the clock.
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Oct 14, 2025
Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she's the one with something to say.
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Oct 14, 2025
Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she's the one with something to say.
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Oct 14, 2025
Her ex-husband says in his book that since the pop star's conservatorship ended, "It's become impossible to pretend everything's OK."
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Oct 14, 2025
In "Devils' Advocates," the New York Times journalist Kenneth P. Vogel wades into the murky world of Washington lobbyists working for foreign interests.
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Oct 14, 2025
Adam Johnson's new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.
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Oct 14, 2025
Megha Majumdar's new novel follows two disastrously entangled lives in a famine-ridden future.
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Oct 14, 2025
"1929," by the New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a tale of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the conscience.
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Oct 14, 2025
Her ex-husband says in his book that since the pop star's conservatorship ended, "It's become impossible to pretend everything's OK."
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Oct 13, 2025
Bedlam's sharply irreverent production of Emily Breeze's comedy, a riff on "Pride and Prejudice," has period dress, contemporary vernacular and a magnetic Mrs. Bennet.
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Oct 13, 2025
"True Nature," a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.
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Oct 13, 2025
The writer mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, those exchanges are being brought to life onscreen.
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Oct 13, 2025
A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. "It was very peculiar not to be able to speak," he says.
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Oct 13, 2025
In "The Wounded Generation" and "1942," the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war.
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Oct 13, 2025
Gabrielle Hamilton's new memoir, "Next of Kin," lacks the visceral shock and searing vision of her prior work.
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Oct 12, 2025
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.
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Oct 12, 2025
With books like "Woman and Nature," she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.
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Oct 12, 2025
In "The Unveiling," a tortured film location scout is haunted by a traumatic past and a supernatural present.
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Oct 11, 2025
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
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Oct 11, 2025
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
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Oct 11, 2025
"Spunk," a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.
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Oct 11, 2025
"Spunk," a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.
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Oct 11, 2025
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
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Oct 11, 2025
The devil, Prada-clad or not, stays on the periphery of Caroline Palmer's "Workhorse," a novel about an ambitious assistant at a Vogue-like publication.
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Oct 11, 2025
In "Splendid Liberators," Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to spread freedom across the world.
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Oct 10, 2025
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak and challenging. But they're also comical and deeply human.
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Oct 10, 2025
"Minor Black Figures" encompasses race, class, religion and art, but at its heart it's really about "what happens when you encounter a priest at a bar one hazy summer night in New York."
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Oct 10, 2025
In "The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus," Matthew Restall explores the seemingly immortal reputation of one of history's most projected-on figures.
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Oct 10, 2025
The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.
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Oct 10, 2025
"I wanted to tell a story that encompassed the gender spectrum," said Tonatiuh, who transformed his body to play the queer window dresser Luis Molina.
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Oct 10, 2025
In Brandon Taylor's new novel, "Minor Black Figures," an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.
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Oct 10, 2025
The author of the Seeds of America trilogy recommends books that run the gamut from Native American history to the civil rights movement.
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Oct 09, 2025
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. "Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?" she asked.
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Oct 09, 2025
County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.
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Oct 09, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 09, 2025
?The prize committee said the Hungarian writer's work "reaffirms the power of art."
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Oct 09, 2025
In Jacqueline Harpman's novel "Orlanda," the repressed half of a woman's soul jumps into the body of a man. Chaos ensues.
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Oct 09, 2025
Sharing the plot of the 20th "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book had him cringing at the memory of ruining a birthday surprise. Also surprising: the O.J. Simpson book on his shelves.
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Oct 08, 2025
Our columnist on notable new releases.
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Oct 08, 2025
Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.
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Oct 08, 2025
To write "Paper Girl," Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.
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Oct 08, 2025
The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt's cult favorite campus novel, "The Secret History." Here's where to start.
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Oct 08, 2025
The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt's cult favorite campus novel, "The Secret History." Here's where to start.
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Oct 07, 2025
Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize.
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