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Sep 22, 2020
When the anthropologist Hugh Raffles lost two sisters within months, he looked to rocks and stones for a sense of perspective and stability.
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Sep 22, 2020
A selection of recent poetry releases; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Sep 22, 2020
An excerpt from "Conditional Citizens," by Laila Lalami
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Sep 22, 2020
Whether or not you're from the Bronx, Desus & Mero have some "God-Level Knowledge Darts" to throw at you.
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Sep 22, 2020
Tim Weiner's "The Folly and the Glory" traces hostilities between Russia and the United States across 75 years.
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Sep 22, 2020
Whether or not you're from the Bronx, Desus & Mero have some "God-Level Knowledge Darts" to throw at you.
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Sep 22, 2020
The novel "Hench," by Natalie Zina Walschots, imagines a lost millennial in a Marvel-style war between good and evil.
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Sep 22, 2020
"Our Bodies, Their Battlefields," by Christina Lamb, a British foreign correspondent, provides one of the first exhaustive examinations of rape as a weapon of war.
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Sep 22, 2020
"Here We Are," by Graham Swift, is a nostalgic look at the world of magicians and song-and-dance acts facing changes in taste and technology.
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Sep 22, 2020
In her first nonfiction book, the novelist Laila Lalami offers a wrenching look at her experience as a naturalized citizen and the challenges endured by immigrants like her.
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Sep 22, 2020
In "Divided We Fall," David French warns that secession movements are a real possibility for the future.
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Sep 22, 2020
In his new book, the Forbes reporter Dan Alexander examines President Trump's private coffers since he took office.
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Sep 21, 2020
Andrew Weissmann, a top lawyer in the special counsel's office, details the investigators' findings and frustrations in his new memoir, "Where Law Ends."
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Sep 21, 2020
Andrew Weissmann, a top lawyer in the special counsel's office, details the investigators' findings and frustrations in his new memoir, "Where Law Ends."
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Sep 21, 2020
A new graphic novel expands on the Pulitzer-winning series about the challenges a family of Syrian refugees faced in America.
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Sep 21, 2020
The fourth novel in Robinson's series about the residents of Gilead, Iowa, features a fraught love during the Jim Crow era.
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Sep 20, 2020
From making soup to creating a butterfly garden, everyone can do something.
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Sep 19, 2020
Publishing is becoming a winner-take-all game. Nobody dominates it like Madeline McIntosh and Penguin Random House.
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Sep 19, 2020
These four thrillers may be gussied up with future settings, but the problems they confront are rooted in today's world.
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Sep 18, 2020
He chronicled Stalin's tyrannies and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he was an enthusiastic admirer of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Sep 18, 2020
He wrote the 1986 novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks. Another book was a finalist for a Pulitzer.
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Sep 18, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 18, 2020
Akhtar discusses "Homeland Elegies" and Marc Lacey talks about "Cry Havoc," by Michael Signer, and "The Violence Inside Us," by Chris Murphy.
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Sep 18, 2020
Fiction contenders include Brit Bennett, the author of "The Vanishing Half"; Randall Kenan, a beloved writer who died in August; and Douglas Stuart, a debut novelist who is also a Booker Prize finalist.
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Sep 18, 2020
Turn the news of the day into a time capsule with some scissors and some glue.
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Sep 18, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 18, 2020
Three new collections explore the abuses, hypocrisies and awkwardnesses of living in this country today.
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Sep 18, 2020
"There's so much more that comes with being Black apart from dealing with racism," says Theresa Ikoko, a Londoner whose movie "Rocks" opened this week.
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Sep 18, 2020
Delving into the many tomes that try to distill the fascination that makes so many want to stare up through their binoculars.
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Sep 17, 2020
She married into one of the world's richest families but refused to let herself be marginalized as a socialite.
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Sep 17, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 17, 2020
In her new book, "Just Us," the poet and essayist repeatedly asks how race is understood and manifested in American culture.
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Sep 17, 2020
For his new book, "The United States of Cocktails," Brian Bartels roamed the country to report on local tastes, traditions and quirks.
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Sep 17, 2020
The longtime publishing executive is leaving the company, which has faced months of turmoil, because of disagreements over its direction.
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Sep 17, 2020
The former president's publisher plans to release the book after the 2020 election and has ordered a first U.S. printing of 3 million copies.
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Sep 17, 2020
The former president's publisher plans to release the book after the 2020 election and has ordered a first U.S. printing of 3 million copies.
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Sep 17, 2020
A poem that reminds us there is so much in our nation that still needs to change.
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Sep 17, 2020
Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist's lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator.
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Sep 17, 2020
"Just tell me who did it."
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Sep 17, 2020
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park explores books capturing Kirby's life and work, including a new biography by Tom Scioli.
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Sep 16, 2020
A prolific author, essayist, columnist and social critic, he challenged conventional thinking on race and avant-garde music.
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Sep 16, 2020
Five judges, each with 162 books to read, are determining one of the world's best-known literary awards in an unusual year.
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Sep 16, 2020
Isaiah Dunn has a superhero alter ego who gets his powers from eating beans and rice. Nnamdi is transformed by his anger into a seven-foot-tall hulk.
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Sep 16, 2020
Erno Rubik, who devised one of the world's most popular and enduring puzzles, opens up about his creation in his new book, "Cubed."
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Sep 16, 2020
Erno Rubik, who devised one of the world's most popular and enduring puzzles, opens up about his creation in his new book, "Cubed."
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Sep 16, 2020
Alex Ross's "Wagnerism" is "a book about a musician's influence on non-musicians — resonances and reverberations of one art form into others." Reviewed by John Adams.
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Sep 16, 2020
Two new memoirs, Alicia Elliott's "A Mind Spread Out on the Ground" and Toni Jensen's "Carry," sketch harrowing portraits of Native life today.
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Sep 16, 2020
In "A Traitor to His Species," Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.
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Sep 15, 2020
His upbringing in North Carolina helped him create a fictional hamlet, Tims Creek, where a three-year-old clairvoyant scares the neighbors. And a pig talks.
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Sep 15, 2020
"The Selected Works of Audre Lorde," edited by Roxane Gay, arrives at a time when the poet, essayist and memoirist has rarely been more influential — or misunderstood.
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Sep 15, 2020
"Silence Is My Mother Tongue" witnesses a young brother and sister coming of age in a Sudanese refugee camp.
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Sep 15, 2020
An excerpt from "Agent Sonya," by Ben Macintyre
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Sep 15, 2020
An excerpt from "The Abstainer," by Ian McGuire
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Sep 15, 2020
Some literary heavy hitters missed out, including Hilary Mantel, whose latest work, "The Mirror and the Light," did not make the cut.
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Sep 15, 2020
Some literary heavy hitters missed out, including Hilary Mantel, whose latest work, "The Mirror and the Light," did not make the cut.
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Sep 15, 2020
Vigdis Hjorth's "Long Live the Post Horn!" follows a 35-year-old woman through an identity crisis — and a campaign in support of postal workers.
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Sep 15, 2020
"The Wake-Up Call," by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, criticizes the performance of Western governments and suggests ways to improve it.
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Sep 15, 2020
Daniel Yergin's "The New Map" is a comprehensive look at the world of energy, its past, present and future.
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Sep 15, 2020
In "If Then," the historian Jill Lepore recounts the story of the Simulmatics Corporation, which tried to use primitive computing power to shape Americans' behavior.
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Sep 15, 2020
Ian McGuire's historical novel "The Abstainer" pits an Irish separatist against a police constable in 19th-century England.
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Sep 15, 2020
Michael J. Sandel's "The Tyranny of Merit" examines the damage our current meritocratic system is doing to the country.
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Sep 15, 2020
"Who Gets In and Why" and "Unacceptable" detail how admissions is rigged in favor of the privileged and how it was gamed even further.
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Sep 15, 2020
David Nasaw's "The Last Million" tells the painful story of displaced persons after World War II who had nowhere to go.
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Sep 15, 2020
Ilia Calderón ("My Time to Speak") and Maria Hinojosa ("Once I Was You") tell different stories with a common theme: the need for a deeper, more nuanced conversation about race.
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Sep 15, 2020
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Sep 15, 2020
As Chris Whipple shows in "The Spymasters," the heads of the Central Intelligence Agency have often been more beleaguered than omnipotent.
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Sep 15, 2020
In "Greyboy," Cole Brown recounts the lives of privileged outsiders, himself among them.
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Sep 15, 2020
In his new book, the journalist and co-founder of Vox argues that dramatic population growth could revitalize the nation.
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Sep 15, 2020
In "A Better Man," the comedian proposes a sincere vision for modern masculinity.
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Sep 15, 2020
Ben Macintyre's "Agent Sonya" recounts the story of a woman who passed along atomic secrets when she wasn't raising her family in the Cotswolds.
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Sep 14, 2020
The 10-year-old narrator of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's "Fighting Words" eases her way into sharing the awful truth of what she and her sister survived.
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Sep 14, 2020
"Runaway," Graham's 15th collection, considers the apocalypse, beautifully.
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Sep 14, 2020
During the Civil War era, the writer emerged as an emblem of the country's dissonance. Now, in the midst of another all-consuming national crisis, his work feels uncannily relevant.
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Sep 14, 2020
In "Payback," the veteran novelist Mary Gordon gives score-settling a modern twist.
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Sep 14, 2020
"Homeland Elegies," a novel that draws heavily on elements of memoir, is the story of a son and his immigrant father that has echoes of "The Great Gatsby."
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Sep 13, 2020
In 1970, she helped found the Feminist Press. It was hailed for making available "a legacy of writings by and about women."
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Sep 13, 2020
Richard Kreitner talks about "Break It Up," his new book about deep divisions and secessionist movements throughout American history.
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Sep 12, 2020
In his groundbreaking new book, "The WEIRDest People in the World," the anthropologist Joseph Henrich argues that people from Western countries have a unique psychology.
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Sep 11, 2020
Her 1976 book, ‘The Hite Report,' touched off ‘a revolution in the bedroom' and has sold tens of millions of copies. But harsh criticism drove her to self-exile in Europe.
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Sep 11, 2020
In her new Crime column, Marilyn Stasio ranges from an Alpine chalet to the sunny streets of Los Angeles to the venerable British city of Bath.
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Sep 11, 2020
Stelter talks about "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" and Reed Hastings discusses "No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention."
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Sep 11, 2020
In "World of Wonders" the poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil tells stories of her life through the natural world that surrounded her and gave her solace.
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Sep 11, 2020
Margaret Atwood, Héctor Tobar, Thomas Mallon and Brenda Wineapple on older political novels they admire that have a lot to say about the world today.
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Sep 11, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 11, 2020
In Debora L. Spar's "Work Mate Marry Love" and Jenny Kleeman's "Sex Robots and Vegan Meat," two approaches to thinking about what our intimate lives will look like in the future.
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Sep 11, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 10, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 10, 2020
In re-examining historical narratives and classical stories, these artists are creating images that speak on multiple levels to the experiences of being Black and female.
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Sep 10, 2020
The artists recast historical narratives to create images that speak on multiple levels to the experiences of being Black and female.
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Sep 10, 2020
In "Too Much Information," President Obama's onetime regulatory chief takes another look at whether disclosing information — including calorie counts — is always a good thing.
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Sep 10, 2020
"I like reading in graveyards leaning against old gravestones, though I haven't had many opportunities of late."
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Sep 10, 2020
A poem that widens to contain our curiosity, our fear, whatever we're each keeping contained.
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Sep 10, 2020
The novel, by Ayad Akhtar, considers the many contradictions of being an American Muslim after 9/11.
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Sep 10, 2020
"Homeland Elegies," by Ayad Akhtar, considers the many contradictions and ambiguities of being an American Muslim after 9/11.
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Sep 10, 2020
He'd missed his deadline and then the pandemic arrived — so CNN's chief media correspondent wrote about it.
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Sep 09, 2020
In this follow-up to "Fear," Woodward continues applying old-school theories and lines of questioning to a deeply unorthodox administration.
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Sep 09, 2020
The show, which is based on the popular comics by Robert Kirkman, will conclude in 2022 after 11 seasons. But some of its characters will live on in a new spinoff series.
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Sep 09, 2020
The show, which is based on the popular comics by Robert Kirkman, will conclude in 2022 after 11 seasons. But some of its characters will live on in a new spinoff series.
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Sep 09, 2020
In "The Bass Rock," Evie Wyld's skillful and entertaining third novel, generations of girls and women contend with the looming threat of bodily harm.
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Sep 09, 2020
The children's series is 100 years old this year. Its author, Hugh Lofting, was flawed — the original books contained racist ideas. Yet his animals continue to delight.
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