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Dec 06, 2019
Ash Carter and Sam Kashner discuss their new oral history of the director, and Alexandra Jacobs talks about her biography of Elaine Stritch.
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Dec 06, 2019
A five-part crossover story, premiering Sunday on CW, will include some unexpected characters.
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Dec 06, 2019
Michael Eric Dyson's book, "Jay-Z: Made in America" is new on the nonfiction list this week.
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Dec 06, 2019
For "Texas Flood," their oral history of the legendary blues guitarist, Alan Paul and Andy Aledort talked to his family, bandmates and crew.
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Dec 06, 2019
The comedian, who has a special for kids coming to Netflix, talks about the theater, movies and writing that have shaped his work.
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Dec 06, 2019
An artist reimagines the season's favorites.
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Dec 06, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Dec 06, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Dec 05, 2019
The Times's art critics select 26 of their favorite art books and books related to art of the year.
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Dec 05, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dec 05, 2019
He described his experiences as a gay man in a comic strip and an acclaimed semi-autobiographical graphic novel, influencing many other cartoonists.
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Dec 05, 2019
Picture book biographies of Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Johnson, Jimmy Carter and more introduce people who just kept going, until they changed the world.
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Dec 05, 2019
The Times's staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
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Dec 05, 2019
In a rush of breath and syllables, someone lives and departs, is gone without being gone.
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Dec 05, 2019
Marilyn Stasio's 2019 top 10 list includes a gruesome Danish serial-killer thriller, a missing-persons caper and a murder mystery set in the video-gaming world.
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Dec 05, 2019
"I'm fascinated by stories of how the various plant specimens we take for granted today were originally discovered," says the actor, whose latest book is "Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years."
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Dec 05, 2019
Combining material from Robert Musil's great unfinished novel and from his archives, "Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister" focuses on the twinlike siblings at the book's heart.
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Dec 05, 2019
The Times's staff critics talk with each other about the reading they did in 2019, on and off the job.
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Dec 04, 2019
He described his experiences as a gay man in a comic strip and an acclaimed semi-autobiographical graphic novel, influencing many other cartoonists.
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Dec 04, 2019
Heather Christle's peculiar and indelible book bounces between observations about the causes and uses of the tears we shed.
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Dec 04, 2019
Niall Williams's novel "This Is Happiness" takes readers to a remote rural village, a "forgotten elsewhere" that's on the brink of great change.
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Dec 03, 2019
The translator Ken Liu has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers.
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Dec 03, 2019
This collection, edited by Saskia Hamilton, collects correspondence from the writers Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and their friends after Lowell had suddenly left Hardwick and the couple's teenage daughter.
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Dec 03, 2019
Amity Shlaes's "Great Society: A New History" claims that liberals hurt the very people they are trying to help.
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Dec 03, 2019
Leandra Ruth Zarnow's "Battling Bella" presents an outspoken Bella Abzug who has something to say for our own time.
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Dec 03, 2019
A mix of sophisticated flavors and exacting techniques sets these six dessert-focused books apart.
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Dec 03, 2019
The Massachusetts-based translator has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers.
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Dec 03, 2019
His new novel, "Dead Astronauts," is a phantasmagoric pastiche set in a post-climate-change future.
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Dec 03, 2019
A.R. Moxon's debut novel, "The Revisionaries," reimagines the prison-industrial complex as a corrupt theocracy.
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Dec 03, 2019
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Dec 03, 2019
In Olaf Olafsson's novel "The Sacrament," a nun's investigation of abuse allegations rekindles troubling memories from her own past.
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Dec 03, 2019
"One Long River of Song" celebrates nature, family, music and life.
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Dec 03, 2019
Laura Thompson's "Life in a Cold Climate" documents the upper-class fiction and fixations of Nancy Mitford, known for her pronouncements on what was de rigueur.
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Dec 03, 2019
John Simon reviews "Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends," an oral history by Ash Carter and Sam Kashner.
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Dec 03, 2019
Lars Iyer's new novel, "Nietzsche and the Burbs," imagines the German philosopher as a contemporary British adolescent.
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Dec 02, 2019
The most notable picture books, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times's children's books editor.
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Dec 02, 2019
A transplanted Australian, he had a zest for the knockout punch as he sparred with all things cultural, creating a pungent comic persona on British television.
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Dec 02, 2019
Mr. Massie wrote readable and respected biographies of Russian royals, including "Nicholas and Alexandra," which became a movie.
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Dec 02, 2019
"The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison" brood on identity, alienation and the political responsibilities of the artist, but are also full of vital everyday experience.
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Dec 02, 2019
In her impressively reported new account, Ruth Marcus unpacks the political maneuvering behind the justice's ascent to the Supreme Court.
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Dec 02, 2019
"Free, Melania" gets into the first lady's relationship with Ivanka, "Be Best" and that "I really don't care" jacket.
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Dec 02, 2019
Stunning new atlases take you back to the worlds of 19th-century explorers, early aviators and turn-of-the-century London, and into a future of rising seas.
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Dec 02, 2019
A new unauthorized biography of Melania Trump gets into the first lady's relationship with Ivanka, "Be Best" and that "I really don't care" jacket.
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Nov 30, 2019
Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since the 1890s. They hope to finish in 2050, but that might be optimistic.
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Nov 29, 2019
Writers cast light on other countries' shadows: from a sinister factory in Japan to a secret-filled Yugoslav town to a prisonlike kitchen in the south of India.
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Nov 28, 2019
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and first-time Broadway librettist shares what she watched, read and listened to in a week.
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Nov 28, 2019
Orders from the Republican Party and other conservative groups helped push Mr. Trump's best-selling book, records show.
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Nov 27, 2019
Need recommendations for children's books? You've come to the right place.
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Nov 27, 2019
In books about the history of wives, the history of the breast and other subjects, she examined how cultural forces led over time to feminist thinking.
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Nov 27, 2019
Pico's latest volume concludes what he has described as a four-book project about pretty much everything, mixing verse and prose, diary, comedy and accusation.
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Nov 27, 2019
A transplanted Australian, he had a zest for the knockout punch as he sparred with all things cultural, creating a pungent comic persona on British television.
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Nov 27, 2019
A writer and illustrator remembers a kind doctor who influenced her career.
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Nov 27, 2019
"The vast majority of American classics were ruined for me because schools made me read them too young," says the Y.A. fantasy novelist, whose new book is "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."
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Nov 27, 2019
James, who died on Sunday at 80, was an endlessly quotable poet, memoirist, novelist and critic — among other things.
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Nov 27, 2019
In "Music: A Subversive History," the jazz critic and author Ted Gioia tells the story of music as one of radical nonconformists overturning convention.
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Nov 27, 2019
The White House memoir, written by someone identified only as "a senior Trump administration official," vaults to the No. 1 spot, moving "Triggered" to No. 2.
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Nov 27, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 27, 2019
Once children start reading independently, the right short books will help them practice reading while keeping them entertained.
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Nov 27, 2019
Babies love books — like these — that show them their own world.
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Nov 27, 2019
These choices are outstanding read-alouds any time of day, but they will seem especially magical as you're winding down at night.
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Nov 27, 2019
A dive into Brett Kavanaugh's ascent to the Supreme Court, Jeff VanderMeer's new eco-horror novel, Ralph Ellison's letters and more.
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Nov 27, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 27, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 27, 2019
Sometimes teenage life is all too real. These books will lift your favorite teenager — or you — into a spellbinding new realm.
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Nov 27, 2019
When you need a book that's high in quality but low in page count, try these standouts.
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Nov 27, 2019
The top picks from 2019 include volumes on cider that have a lot to teach wine lovers, along with stories about sommeliers and essential new texts.
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Nov 27, 2019
My top picks have knockout art and stories that will help your little one settle in for the night.
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Nov 27, 2019
Mind-boggling pop-ups, a "Tintin" collection, a deluxe "Alice in Wonderland" and more gift-worthy children's books that pack a visual punch.
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Nov 27, 2019
In "The Great Pretender," Susannah Cahalan finds a mystery when she revisits an influential 1973 paper that upended the field of psychiatry.
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Nov 26, 2019
She collaborated with her first husband on an acclaimed three-volume history of the game. But it took 50 years for her contribution to be fully acknowledged.
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Nov 26, 2019
The Library of America has reissued Stafford's three novels, which offer a richly written and unblinking look at the darker aspects of being young, in one volume.
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Nov 26, 2019
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year's outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
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Nov 26, 2019
An excerpt from "Tiny Love: The Complete Stories," by Larry Brown
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Nov 26, 2019
An excerpt from "The Cartiers: The Untold Story Behind the Jewelry Empire," by Francesca Cartier Brickell
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Nov 26, 2019
"Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown" collects tales of hardscrabble lives, as captured by the Mississippi writer who died in 2004, at the age of 53.
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Nov 26, 2019
Holly George-Warren's "Janis: Her Life and Music" shows us the person behind the pop idol.
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Nov 26, 2019
Thomas Lynch's new essay collection, "The Depositions," should be required reading for anyone who is going to die someday.
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Nov 26, 2019
Francesca Cartier Brickell gives jewelry enthusiasts a peek into her family's diamond-encrusted past.
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Nov 26, 2019
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nov 26, 2019
The list includes a mix of books written originally in Spanish and in translation.
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Nov 26, 2019
This poem that sees libraries as evocative troves of imagery: histories, card catalogs, classifications.
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Nov 25, 2019
Burhan Sonmez's new novel asks big questions about individuals and societies: What makes us who we are? And if we can't remember our past, does it still belong to us?
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Nov 25, 2019
In "Disney's Land," Richard Snow explains how Walt Disney turned 240 acres of orange groves into the iconic California theme park.
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Nov 25, 2019
Sometimes we read for escape. Sometimes we read to be reminded of the obvious: Things could be worse.
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Nov 25, 2019
François Lebeau's "Climbing Rock" and Christian Vizl's "Silent Kingdom" reveal the sublime edges of the earth.
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Nov 24, 2019
A raft of books, both fiction and nonfiction, examined women's anger from personal and political angles — and suggested that the fire is just getting started.
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Nov 23, 2019
Montclair Book Center is 9,000 square feet of nooks, alcoves, labyrinths and warrens. "It's like a time machine," one customer says.
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Nov 23, 2019
Literary revisions may help us empathize with political figures across party lines.
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Nov 22, 2019
Charles Moore discusses the final volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, and Adrienne Brodeur talks about her memoir, "Wild Game."
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Nov 22, 2019
New books from Isabelle Arsenault, Grant Snider and more speak to children's curiosity about everything from the color of nighttime to difficult stuff in the news.
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Nov 22, 2019
‘The War of the Worlds' has been a novel and a radio broadcast. Now, an artist reimagines H.G. Wells's extraterrestrial tale in graphic form.
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Nov 22, 2019
Contemporary recordings breathe new life into such books as "To the Lighthouse," "Jane Eyre" and "The Handmaid's Tale."
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Nov 22, 2019
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
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Nov 22, 2019
New graphic biographies of the novelist and the Supreme Court justice show the determined paths they followed, from quietly rebellious girlhoods to full-on iconhood.
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Nov 22, 2019
"The Camp of the Saints," published in 1973, has been a must-read within white supremacist circles for decades. Stephen Miller, Marine Le Pen and Steve King have touted it in recent years.
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Nov 22, 2019
A painstaking renovation of the writer's childhood home provides a compelling centerpiece for an exploration of the corner of France she loved.
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Nov 22, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 22, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 21, 2019
The Nobel laureate, who died in August, was honored at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. Speakers included Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis and Fran Lebowitz.
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Nov 21, 2019
"Triggered," published Nov. 5, topped the best-seller list thanks in part to a big order from the Republican National Committee.
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