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Jul 13, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Payback,' by Kashana Cauley
Kashana Cauley's novel "The Payback" imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they're into reiki.

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Jul 12, 2025

2 Books for a Hot, Languid Summer
A classic coming-of-age novel; a cultural history of early America.

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Jul 12, 2025

Book Review: ‘Nothing More of This Land,' by Joseph Lee
In "Nothing More of This Land," the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island's Indigenous history.

New York Times Books
Jul 11, 2025

Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
In her new book, "A Marriage at Sea," the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.

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Jul 11, 2025

What's Next for ‘Love Island' Contestant Jeremiah Brown? A Book Club.
Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading "The Song of Achilles."

New York Times Books
Jul 11, 2025

James B. Maas, Guru of Slumber and the ‘Power Nap,' Dies at 86
An author, public speaker and professor, he taught a hugely popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the essential importance of sleep.

New York Times Books
Jul 11, 2025

Chef Curtis Duffy on His Restaurant Ever, ‘The Bear' and Michelin Stars
At his Chicago restaurant Ever, which played a supporting role in "The Bear," the chef Curtis Duffy refines his story.

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Jul 11, 2025

From a Chaotic Childhood to the Control of a Michelin-Starred Kitchen
At his Chicago restaurant Ever, which played a supporting role in "The Bear," the chef Curtis Duffy refines his story.

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Jul 11, 2025

Superman's Other Secret Weakness? Journalism Ethics.
Writing for The Daily Planet about his heroic alter ego raises thorny issues for Clark Kent. Lois Lane has her conflicts, too.

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Jul 11, 2025

For Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Fame Is the Weirdest Feeling of All
"Mexican Gothic" was a breakout book for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who describes herself as "not a people person." Her new novel is "The Bewitching."

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

John Martin, Black Sparrow Press Founder and Champion of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

Jane Lazarre, Author of ‘The Mother Knot,' Dies at 81
With books like "The Mother Knot" and "Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness," she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America.

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

6 New Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

James B. Maas, Guru of Slumber, Is Dead at 86
An author and a professor, he taught a popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the importance of sleep, including "power naps."

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

James B. Maas, Academic Guru of Slumber, Dies at 86
He taught an immensely popular and entertaining introduction to psychology course at Cornell University that featured a focus on the importance of sleep.

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

When Writers Split Up, Who Gets to Tell the Story?
Hannah Pittard wrote a memoir about the breakup. When she learned that her ex planned a novel about it, she took it back up, this time as fiction (sort of).

New York Times Books
Jul 10, 2025

Interview: Lisa Scottoline on Her Favorite Books and ‘The Unraveling of Julia'
"The Unraveling of Julia," her 37th book, has taken the thriller writer into new territory: "I'm going Gothic, baby!"

New York Times Books
Jul 09, 2025

Book Review: ‘A Flower Traveled in My Blood,' by Haley Cohen Gilliland
A harrowing new book tells the story of the women determined to learn the fates of the babies born to their pregnant daughters in captivity.

New York Times Books
Jul 08, 2025

Book Review: ‘Bring the House Down,' by Charlotte Runcie
Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.

New York Times Books
Jul 08, 2025

Book Review: ‘These Summer Storms,' by Sarah MacLean
Sarah MacLean's "These Summer Storms" is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.

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Jul 08, 2025

Book Review: ‘2024,' by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf
"2024," a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.

New York Times Books
Jul 08, 2025

Book Review: ‘A Marriage at Sea,' by Sophie Elmhirst
"A Marriage at Sea" tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.

New York Times Books
Jul 07, 2025

Book Review: ‘Vera, or Faith,' by Gary Shteyngart
"Vera, or Faith" follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.

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Jul 07, 2025

Jeff VanderMeer's Favorite Climate Fiction Books
The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality of navigating environmental crisis.

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Jul 07, 2025

Book Review: ‘Malaparte,' by Maurizio Serra
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.

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Jul 06, 2025

Book Review: ‘Culpability,' by Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in "Culpability."

New York Times Books
Jul 06, 2025

3 Dystopian Novels to Read This Summer
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three dystopian novels to read this summer.

New York Times Books
Jul 06, 2025

Marlen Haushofer's Fiction Takes On the Fog of Repression
The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer's fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises.

New York Times Books
Jul 05, 2025

New Horror Books
Our columnist reviews recent releases.

New York Times Books
Jul 05, 2025

Book Review: New Horror Books
Our columnist reviews recent releases.

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Jul 05, 2025

Book Review: ‘Great Black Hope,' by Rob Franklin
With humor and range, Rob Franklin's novel, "Great Black Hope," examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.

New York Times Books
Jul 04, 2025

Book Review: ‘Rebels, Robbers and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights,' by Teri Kanefield
Teri Kanefield's "Rebels, Robbers and Radicals" brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

New York Times Books
Jul 04, 2025

Sandy Gall, Reporter Who Covered a Half-Century of Wars, Dies at 97
He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

New York Times Books
Jul 03, 2025

9 New Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New York Times Books
Jul 03, 2025

Sandy Gall, War Correspondent Without Swagger, Dies at 97
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television's "News at Ten."

New York Times Books
Jul 03, 2025

Interview: ‘How to Train Your Dragon' Creator Cressida Cowell on Her Favorite Books
Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and a live-action movie.

New York Times Books
Jul 02, 2025

Book Review: ‘Bad Company,' by Megan Greenwell
Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement's considerable human costs.

New York Times Books
Jul 02, 2025

Book Review: ‘Clint,' by Shawn Levy
A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country's complex moral universe onscreen.

New York Times Books
Jul 02, 2025

Great Books on American History and the Supreme Court
In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

New York Times Books
Jul 02, 2025

Thrilling New Crime Fiction
Our columnist on July's most notable books.

New York Times Books
Jul 01, 2025

David R. Slavitt, Poet and Critic With a Side Gig in Pulp Fiction, Dies at 90
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.

New York Times Books
Jul 01, 2025

Book Review: ‘The CIA Book Club,' by Charlie English
In "The CIA Book Club," Charlie English tells the story of America's war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.

New York Times Books
Jul 01, 2025

Book Review: ‘Wanting,' by Claire Jia
A childhood friendship in upper-class Beijing is tested by envy, ambition and relentless materialism.

New York Times Books
Jul 01, 2025

Book Review: ‘Like,' by Megan C. Reynolds
Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.

New York Times Books
Jul 01, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Beast in the Clouds,' by Nathalia Holt
In "The Beast in the Clouds," Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow.

New York Times Books
Jun 30, 2025

Review: A New ‘Wrinkle in Time' Needs to Iron Out Some Problems
Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.

New York Times Books
Jun 30, 2025

20 New Books to Read in July: Sarah MacLean, Gary Shteyngart, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and More
Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more.

New York Times Books
Jun 29, 2025

Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 78, Dies; Crime Novelist Who Mocked High Society
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.

New York Times Books
Jun 29, 2025

How the Million-Selling ‘All The Colors of Dark' Brought Its Author Peace
Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should have dealt with it sooner.

New York Times Books
Jun 29, 2025

New Romance Books
Our critic on the month's best new books.

New York Times Books
Jun 28, 2025

New Historical Novels to Lose Yourself In
Our columnist on some stellar recent releases.

New York Times Books
Jun 28, 2025

Book Review: ‘Nadja,' by André Breton
André Breton's 1928 novel "Nadja" pays homage to a great love and to a great city.

New York Times Books
Jun 27, 2025

Overlooked No More: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Whose Camera Sought a Truer Image of Black Men
He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality.

New York Times Books
Jun 27, 2025

Book Club: Let's Talk About ‘Mrs. Dalloway'
Virginia Woolf's classic novel, celebrating its 100th anniversary, is the topic of this month's discussion.

New York Times Books
Jun 27, 2025

John Robbins, Author of ‘Diet for a New America,' Dies at 77
He walked away from his family's hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.

New York Times Books
Jun 27, 2025

Book Club: Read ‘The Catch,' by Yrsa Daley-Ward, with the Book Review
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss "The Catch," a psychological thriller about twin sisters and their mother, whom they had presumed dead.

New York Times Books
Jun 27, 2025

Why ‘Mansfield Park' Is Jane Austen's Boldest, Riskiest Novel
"Mansfield Park" continues to complicate the writer's legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel's dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.

New York Times Books
Jun 26, 2025

5 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New York Times Books
Jun 26, 2025

Susan Beth Pfeffer, 77, Dies; Wrote Complex Stories for Young Adults
Her 76 books included "Life as We Knew It," a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.

New York Times Books
Jun 26, 2025

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Will Transport You to Other Worlds
The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

P. Adams Sitney, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Film, Dies at 80
He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

A Gatsby Boat Tour Explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island
A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

Book Review: ‘Collisions,' by Alec Nevala-Lee
A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Summer
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you've saved most to your reading lists.

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

Ivy Pochoda Tries Her Hand at Horror in a New Novel, ‘Ecstasy'
The award-winning mystery novelist's new book, "Ecstasy," is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides' play "The Bacchae."

New York Times Books
Jun 25, 2025

Interview: V.E. Schwab on Her Lesbian Vampire Novel and Her Favorite Books
"No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate," says the fantasy writer, whose new book is "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil."

New York Times Books
Jun 24, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Nimbus,' by Robert P. Baird
Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird's satirical novel, "The Nimbus," strains for the heavenly.

New York Times Books
Jun 24, 2025

Bob Dylan's Next Book Will Collect 100 of His Recent Drawings
Along with some 100 images of everyday objects and scenes, "Point Blank" will include vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton.

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Jun 24, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Compound,' by Aisling Rawle
"The Compound" takes place on the set of a deeply twisted reality TV show.

New York Times Books
Jun 24, 2025

Book Review: ‘Make It Ours,' by Robin Givhan
In "Make It Ours," Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer's short, historic career.

New York Times Books
Jun 24, 2025

Poetry Review: ‘Cemeteries and Galaxies,' by John Koethe
John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, "Cemeteries and Galaxies," are full of reflection and digression and probing.

New York Times Books
Jun 23, 2025

James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.

New York Times Books
Jun 23, 2025

Goodbye to Berlin: New Novels Recall a City's ‘Poor but Sexy' Heyday
Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe's licentious, ultraliberal capital.

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Jun 23, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Girls Who Grew Big,' by Leila Mottley
In Leila Mottley's new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to support one another.

New York Times Books
Jun 22, 2025

Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.

New York Times Books
Jun 22, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Sisters,' by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.

New York Times Books
Jun 21, 2025

Nathan Silver, Who Chronicled a Vanished New York, Dies at 89
An architect, he wrote in his book "Lost New York" about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city's landmarks preservation law.

New York Times Books
Jun 21, 2025

Book Review: ‘Everything Is Now,' by J. Hoberman
In "Everything Is Now," J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the '60s.

New York Times Books
Jun 21, 2025

Book Review: ‘Misbehaving at the Crossroads,' by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.

New York Times Books
Jun 21, 2025

The Book Cover Trend You're Seeing Everywhere
Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Buzzy Publisher Started by TikTok's Owner Abruptly Shuts Down
8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Four Recent Poetry Collections Worth Reading
And A.O. Scott on the joys inherent in giving poems a close read.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Silk Road,' by Christopher Wilton-Steer
A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

In ‘Comedy Samurai,' the Writer-Director Larry Charles Tells Tales of Working on ‘Borat' and ‘Curb'
In his candid memoir "Comedy Samurai," the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Book Review: ‘I'll Be Right Here,' by Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom's "I'll Be Right Here" zigzags between Paris and Poughkeepsie as it shares the saga of Algerian siblings and their chosen family.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Best Books About Witches
The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.

New York Times Books
Jun 20, 2025

Book Review: "Graciela in the Abyss," by Meg Medina, and "Blood in the Water," by Tiffany D. Jackson
Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha's Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.

New York Times Books
Jun 19, 2025

8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New York Times Books
Jun 19, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Palm-Wine Drinkard,' by Amos Tutuola
With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel "The Palm-Wine Drinkard."

New York Times Books
Jun 19, 2025

Best Fake Dating Romance Books, According to Jasmine Guillory
Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.

New York Times Books
Jun 19, 2025

Interview: Stephen Fry on Greek Mythology and His Favorite Books
"I try to fight this lamentable tendency," he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. "Odyssey" is the fourth in his series on Greek mythology.

New York Times Books
Jun 18, 2025

Vicki Goldberg Dies at 88; Saw Photography Through a Literary Lens
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.

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Jun 18, 2025

A Teenage Soldier's Wartime Scrapbook Inspired His Granddaughter's First Novel
Heather Clark's debut novel, "The Scrapbook," considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.

New York Times Books
Jun 18, 2025

Book Review: ‘Claire McCardell,' by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.

New York Times Books
Jun 18, 2025

Book Review: ‘The Uproar' by Karim Dimechkie
In Karim Dimechkie's "The Uproar," the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.

New York Times Books
Jun 17, 2025

Jonas Hassen Khemiri Discusses ‘The Sisters'
Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In "The Sisters," Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.

New York Times Books
Jun 17, 2025

Walter Brueggemann, Theologian Who Argued for the Poor, Dies at 92
He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society's marginalized.

New York Times Books
Jun 17, 2025

Book Review: ‘Not My Type,' by E. Jean Carroll
Her lawyers urged that she keep her testimony short. With legal victories in hand, she's sharing her life story, and what it was like on the stand.

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