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Apr 09, 2020
Close your eyes and be transported to Mexico, Italy, Montana and beyond. All you have to do is listen.
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Apr 09, 2020
In 1999, David Papineau wrote for the Book Review about "Flu," Gina Kolata's book about the 1918 influenza pandemic and the hunt for the virus that caused it.
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Apr 09, 2020
The retail guru and best-selling author of "The Upside of Being Down" shares practical advice for readers and ruminators.
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Apr 09, 2020
"I would encourage anyone interested in understanding the Great Depression or mid-19th century Britain to turn to Steinbeck or Dickens."
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Apr 09, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Apr 08, 2020
Mark O'Connell visited tricked-out bunkers, wilderness reserves, space-colonizing conferences and other places where people are getting ready for the end of the world as we know it.
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Apr 08, 2020
"Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982," a surprise hit when it was published, ignited what Cho Nam-Joo called "a public debate" around gender and inequality.
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Apr 07, 2020
The agency, which recently received $75 million as part of the coronavirus stimulus package, announces new funding for 224 projects across the country.
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Apr 07, 2020
Open mics, workshops and other gatherings have gone digital because of the coronavirus. Here are some of the goings-on, and archives to check out.
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Apr 07, 2020
In "Attention: A Love Story," a journalist seeks to turn her relationship with Adderall into a broader examination of the science behind human concentration.
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Apr 07, 2020
An excerpt from "How Much of These Hills Is Gold," by C Pam Zhang
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Apr 07, 2020
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Apr 07, 2020
An excerpt from "Redhead by the Side of the Road," by Anne Tyler
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Apr 07, 2020
Books about quarantined, confined and adrift young people, from "The Cat in the Hat" to "Life of Pi," for the cooped-up young people in your home.
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Apr 07, 2020
Sarah Menkedick suffered horrible anxiety after her daughter was born. In "Ordinary Insanity," she examines the unacknowledged prevalence of clinically anxious mothers.
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Apr 07, 2020
In "Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945," Gotz Aly finds the key to the 20th century's disasters in the rise of nationalism in the 19th century.
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Apr 07, 2020
Francesca Wade's "Square Haunting" chronicles five pioneering feminists and scholars who lived on the same London square between the two world wars.
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Apr 07, 2020
Sallie Bingham's new biography, "The Silver Swan," adds a wealth of new material to our understanding of the heiress and philanthropist.
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Apr 07, 2020
Nicolas Mathieu's novel "And Their Children After Them" follows a small cohort of Gen Xers in a community ravaged by deindustrialization.
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Apr 07, 2020
Augustine Sedgewick's "Coffeeland" demonstrates how the political and social structures of El Salvador were destroyed by its agricultural cash cow.
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Apr 07, 2020
"How Much of These Hills Is Gold," by C Pam Zhang, reimagines the region's past as a Chinese-American tale.
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Apr 07, 2020
The novelist Mieko Kawakami belongs to a cadre of young female writers redefining their national literature. "Breasts and Eggs" introduces her to readers of English.
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Apr 07, 2020
Her new novel, "Redhead by the Side of the Road," shows readers all the old familiar places and moves, and confirms Tyler's heartening flair for decency.
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Apr 07, 2020
In Danielle Trussoni's new novel, "The Ancestor," happily ever after gets very complicated.
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Apr 07, 2020
Since the 1970s, Annie Ernaux has poured a lifetime of memories into her intensely personal books. Now, readers in English are catching on.
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Apr 06, 2020
An excerpt from "Afterlife," by Julia Alvarez
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Apr 06, 2020
Eduardo Porter's "American Poison" details the long legacy of racism and inequality in the United States.
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Apr 06, 2020
An excerpt from "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.," by Peniel E. Joseph
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Apr 06, 2020
In a new book, the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor celebrates the places that have fed New York's craving for blintzes, matzo brei and other delicacies.
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Apr 06, 2020
How to introduce some new characters — even emoji — to your socially distanced Seder.
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Apr 06, 2020
Eric Eyre's "Death in Mud Lick" builds on his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about the opioid crisis in West Virginia.
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Apr 05, 2020
In "Afterlife," even privilege can't shield a Dominican-American widow from the immigrant's plight.
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Apr 05, 2020
Frank B. Wilderson III talks about his experimental approach to writing about blackness and violence, as well as the solace he found in Sarah Vaughan.
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Apr 04, 2020
In his new collection of novellas, "Broken," Don Winslow pays playful tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Steve McQueen.
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Apr 04, 2020
C Pam Zhang's debut, "How Much of These Hills Is Gold," is one of several new or forthcoming books by Asian-American writers set in a period that historically hasn't recognized them.
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Apr 03, 2020
In 1968, at her urging, Charles M. Schulz added Franklin Armstrong to his enormously popular comic strip as a way to promote racial equality.
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Apr 03, 2020
She gave up the stage for the writing life, publishing biographies of some famous friends and two powerful memoirs. She died of the coronavirus.
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Apr 03, 2020
The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour discusses the specific challenges of raising teenagers during the pandemic, and Dwight Garner asks Pamela Paul about putting together the Book Review.
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Apr 03, 2020
Canada's National Arts Center is using streaming video for authors to promote their spring and summer titles to a nation stuck indoors by the pandemic.
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Apr 03, 2020
Aron Nels Steinke, author of the "Mr. Wolf's Class" series, describes the very real problem of a bibliophilic kid in this coronavirus moment.
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Apr 03, 2020
In Marilyn Stasio's latest column, the body count is high and the murderers more cunning than ever.
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Apr 03, 2020
In Victoria Jamieson's "When Stars Are Scattered," a Somali boy pines for his mother and cares for his little brother with hope and humor during 15 years in a refugee camp.
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Apr 03, 2020
Even for people who have lost jobs or income during the coronavirus epidemic, there are books and reading material available online for free.
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Apr 03, 2020
In "Hidden Valley Road," Robert Kolker unspools the story of Mimi and Don Galvin and their 12 children, six of whom developed schizophrenia.
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Apr 03, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Apr 03, 2020
John Kay and Mervyn King's "Radical Uncertainty," Stanislas Dehaene's "How We Learn" and Anthony David's "Into the Abyss" plumb the depths of the brain.
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Apr 03, 2020
Letters to the editor of the Sunday Book Review.
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Apr 02, 2020
Dip into a bizarre true-crime chronicle or a novel that evokes the campy, oddball world of the Netflix documentary series.
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Apr 02, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 02, 2020
Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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Apr 02, 2020
Yoko Ogawa of Japan, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of the Netherlands and Fernanda Melchor of Mexico are among the authors in the running for the prestigious translated literature award.
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Apr 02, 2020
Our first reader-generated itinerary: a weekend of traveling you can do from home.
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Apr 02, 2020
A new book looks at the figure of the American cowboy through the outlaw lens of Mr. Prince, an artist known for his sly borrowings.
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Apr 02, 2020
"Nothing in my life is organized, especially not my books."
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Apr 02, 2020
In "Cool Town," Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the story of R.E.M., the B-52's and the musical city of Athens.
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Apr 02, 2020
Kate Elizabeth Russell's publication experience has been the best of times and the worst of times. Here's why.
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Apr 01, 2020
The current crisis is hard for readers even though, for many, it has come with the unexpected gift of free time and nowhere to be.
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Apr 01, 2020
"American Conservatism," a collection of pieces edited by Andrew J. Bacevich, demonstrates the wide range of conservative thought in America.
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Apr 01, 2020
"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" will spark lively conversation among people who have run out of things to say.
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Apr 01, 2020
Irby's new essay collection, "Wow, No Thank You," offers more of her deadpan, confiding voice, which ranges from high silliness to emotionally painful depths.
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Mar 31, 2020
An excerpt from "August," by Callan Wink
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Mar 31, 2020
The musician's list of cultural must-haves includes her collection of kitsch, reruns of "The Office" and early punk and hip-hop photographs.
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Mar 31, 2020
An excerpt from "Sharks in the Time of Saviors," by Kawai Strong Washburn
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Mar 31, 2020
Mr. dePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 books, including his classic story of a grandma witch and her helper, Big Anthony.
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Mar 31, 2020
Callan Wink's debut novel, "August," pits brains against brawn in an America far from the literary world.
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Mar 31, 2020
In Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's "Hex," an expelled Ph.D. candidate offers a not-so-scientific confession to the mentor she idolizes.
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Mar 31, 2020
"Hurricane Season," by Fernanda Melchor, imagines Mexico's scourge of violence against women in language that is fierce, profane and marvelously inventive.
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Mar 31, 2020
Peniel E. Joseph's "The Sword and the Shield" shows that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had more in common than is generally believed.
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Mar 31, 2020
Recent collections from Sidney Wade, Justin Phillip Reed and more; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Mar 30, 2020
Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful "copyright ideology."
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Mar 30, 2020
Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment.
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Mar 30, 2020
A scholar of Judaism as well, he walked every block in New York — totaling 6,163 miles — and wrote a book about his odyssey. He died of the coronavirus.
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Mar 30, 2020
In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing's imperative to bear witness.
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Mar 30, 2020
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
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Mar 30, 2020
Robert Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road" is a vividly told story of both a very unfortunate family and a long misunderstood affliction.
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Mar 30, 2020
In 1966, the writer Paul Theroux was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing's imperative to bear witness.
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Mar 30, 2020
The novelist Ann Patchett doesn't have children and didn't read middle-grade books. Then she picked up one by Kate DiCamillo and couldn't stop until she'd read them all.
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Mar 30, 2020
Kawai Strong Washburn's debut novel envisions an archipelago of Indigenous peoples who refuse to be erased.
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Mar 28, 2020
Ariana Neumann's father had nightmares and an ID card in a different name. In her memoir, "When Time Stopped," she unspools the past he kept hidden for so long.
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Mar 28, 2020
In "Dragon Hoops," Gene Luen Yang intercuts the thrilling wins and crushing losses of one high school team with basketball's own turbulent history.
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Mar 28, 2020
How could we so heedlessly appropriate a medical term?
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Mar 28, 2020
When Covid-19 struck, Stanford closed its classrooms. The novelist Daniel Mason turned his students' last assignment into an exercise for staying well.
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Mar 27, 2020
With stores temporarily shut down and other industry disruptions, some of the most anticipated titles of the spring are being pushed back to later in the year.
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Mar 27, 2020
Whitehead discusses "The Underground Railroad," and Toobin talks about "American Heiress."
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Mar 27, 2020
Helped by a raft of strong women, the heroine of Kate Messner's "Chirp" reclaims the parts of her childhood she's not ready to leave behind.
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Mar 27, 2020
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, a writer turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too.
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Mar 27, 2020
Seeing some of our childhood favorites in a brand-new, contemporary light.
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Mar 27, 2020
The end of relationships, the end of life, the end of civilization: Collections from Major Jackson, Carolyn Forché, Victoria Chang and Danez Smith imagine the worst.
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Mar 27, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Mar 27, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Mar 27, 2020
This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about "Galápagos," Kurt Vonnegut's novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse.
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Mar 26, 2020
Allen's "Apropos of Nothing," recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him.
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Mar 26, 2020
Claire Weekes, a pioneer in treating anxiety, offered simple and soothing advice that has come to influence much of our approach to panic.
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Mar 26, 2020
The films of Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott are short but complex and suspenseful. And the wide-open vistas are sure nice, right now.
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Mar 26, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 26, 2020
In this uncertain time, here are the cookbooks Food reporters and editors turn to for reliably delicious results.
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Mar 26, 2020
In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own.
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Mar 26, 2020
An art critic shares his best advice for transforming that uncomfortable feeling into a thing of beauty.
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Mar 26, 2020
"I also admire the ones who are taking a break and not working."
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Mar 26, 2020
The nonagenarian masturbation icon is not slowing down.
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