David Mikics’s entry in the Jewish Lives series captures the greatness of the director of “2001,” “The Shining” and other classics.
In her new book “Men to Avoid in Art and Life,” Nicole Tersigni harnesses her skill with a Twitter meme to illuminate the experience of women harassed by concern trolls, “sexperts” and more.
He wrote more than 60 books, but his crowning achievement — he called it his hobby — was his 45-volume translation of a key Jewish text.
A Hong Kong bookseller has recreated his shop in Taipei, and it has become a symbol of Taiwan’s vibrant democracy.
In books like her novel “The Keepers of The House,” which won a Pulitzer Prize, Ms. Grau wrote unsparingly about race relations.
“Wicked Game” is slated for release in October, at the height of the presidential campaign, but Mr. Gates says, “It’s not a salacious book.”
Dynamic duos set out to solve mysteries for others and end up uncovering truths about themselves.
Nine months after stepping down from Congress, she is trying to move forward.
Memoirs by Representative Ilhan Omar, the political analyst Tiffany Cross and the former congresswoman Katie Hill recount trials, victories and hopes for changing the country.
On topic after topic he shifted the direction of scholarly inquiry, winning two Pulitzers and a Bancroft Prize for his innovative research and groundbreaking works.
Wilkerson describes the ideas about race in America that fuel her new book, and David Hill discusses “The Vapors.”
While profiling Behrouz Boochani, the story of the detention where he and others were held was underpinned by a sinister and sorrowful mood that ran through every person I interviewed.
“Nabokov’s job in the book is to make you like the monstrous Humbert Humbert. In the 1960s readers were too swinging to see how evil he was and now readers are too prudish to see how charming he can be.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Two new books look at World War II from the perspectives of outsiders on the fringes of conflict.
She popularized the term “femicide,” to highlight the killing of women “because they are women” and to distinguish these killings from other homicides.
This Princeton professor was going to write a biography of James Baldwin. A violent encounter between the police and a Black man put his book on a different track.
An excerpt from “Luster,” by Raven Leilani
His next book, “Liberal Privilege,” comes with an unusual distribution plan and no publishing house behind it, making it something of a curiosity in the industry.
Raven Leilani’s debut novel follows an interracial, intergenerational affair as it leads to an unusual redefinition of family.
In Karolina Waclawiak’s novel “Life Events,” a “death doula” struggles to detach from her patients.
A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombings that ended World War II — and challenges a common American perception of the destruction in Japan.
Literature is a refuge we turn to when we are forced to confront contradictions that lie beyond reason, writes the Japanese novelist Yoko Ogawa.
理屈から自由になり、矛盾を受け止める必要に迫られた時、人は自然と文学に心を寄せるようになる
A prolific writer, she published more than 75 books, including a Best Seller and a National Book Award finalist, all while encouraging aspiring authors.
In “Inventory,” Darran Anderson sorts through the objects and memories of his 1980s Northern Ireland adolescence.
Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
Sophy Roberts goes on a quest for a rare instrument, and discovers a vast, uncharted history along the way.
Three new books analyze what the Trump presidency has meant for American politics and American society.
Benjamin Carter Hett’s “The Nazi Menace” examines the path to World War II and German responsibility.
Jeffrey Toobin’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors” examines the battle over Robert Mueller’s report and how President Trump prevailed.
He was a celebrated reporter and columnist, the top editor of The New York Post and The Daily News, and the author of numerous books.
An excerpt from “The Death of Vivek Oji,” by Akwaeke Emezi
Caoilinn Hughes’s novel “The Wild Laughter” considers the catastrophic effects of the fall of the Celtic Tiger.
Jill McCorkle’s “Hieroglyphics” examines the end of life through the stories of an aging couple and a tragic murder trial.
Raven Leilani’s novel concerns a young Black woman who becomes involved with an older white man who is in an open marriage.
In “The Book of Atlantis Black,” Betsy Bonner attempts to solve the mysterious fate of her troubled, enigmatic older sister.
In “Caste,” the journalist Isabel Wilkerson looks to other countries’ histories to show how our racial order is founded on a hierarchal structure of hereditary status.
An excerpt from “Wandering in Strange Lands,” by Morgan Jerkins
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Life of a Klansman,” by Edward Ball
“Fallout,” by Lesley M.M. Blume, recounts how John Hersey revealed the devastating toll of the atomic bomb on the citizens of Hiroshima.
Agustina Bazterrica’s dystopian second novel, “Tender Is the Flesh,” uses cannibalism to highlight the inhumanity of factory farming.
The new book by Margot Mifflin shows how the famous contest for women reflected conflicting ideas about female beauty, ambition and fame over the past 100 years.
In “A Furious Sky,” Eric Jay Dolin recounts 500 years of reckoning with the monster storms that come in off the Atlantic Ocean.
In “The End of Everything,” the theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack takes a look at the ultimate doom and destruction of our universe. It’s not pretty.
In “Inferno,” Catherine Cho writes honestly of surviving postpartum psychosis.
White’s new novel, “A Saint From Texas,” traces the fates of Yvonne — who marries a French nobleman — and Yvette, who becomes a nun.
In “After the Last Border,” Jessica Goudeau offers a searing history of this nation’s response to humanitarian crises while recounting the stories of two refugees.
In his latest book, Edward Ball retraces an ancestor’s involvement with the Ku Klux Klan in order to shed light on the country’s legacy of white supremacy.
In “Migrations,” Charlotte McConaghy’s visceral reimagining of “Moby-Dick,” a young woman documents some of the world’s last surviving seabirds.
The protagonist of “The Tunnel,” by the Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, tries to carry on after a dementia diagnosis.
In “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” Jonathan Slaght recounts his quest to track down the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl, a journey that will push him to the edge of endurance.
A new documentary traces the rise and fall of the irreverent, boundary-smashing music publication where Lester Bangs did some of his most famous work.
In “Kings County,” David Goodwillie examines New York’s most celebrated borough with an uncynical eye.
The best-selling author talks about her latest book, “Midnight Sun,” which retells “Twilight” from the vampire’s perspective. Why now? “Because I finished it,” she says.
Marc Gallicchio’s “Unconditional” details debates in both Japan and the United States to end World War II.
“Wandering in Strange Lands” traces the author’s ancestry — and the history of African-American oppression — along the footsteps of the Great Migration.
With a new collection, “In the Valley,” Ron Rash revisits the monstrous protagonist of “Serena” and plumbs the depths of Southern hearts.
Jesse Eisenberg’s audio drama, “When You Finish Saving the World,” is coming to Audible ahead of a film adaptation with Julianne Moore.
At Random House and elsewhere, including his own Summit imprint, he worked with James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and many others.
In Carrie Firestone’s “Dress Coded,” a middle school’s sexist dress code is more terrifying than the bears wandering through its woods.
In Brandy Colbert’s “The Voting Booth,” a girl who’s been speaking out since age 7 helps a drummer make his voice heard.
A large club of Trump administration evictees have turned their bracingly bad experiences into a new genre: political revenge literature.
In the newest batch of crime novels, bodies accumulate at a rather alarming rate.
Wilkerson’s new book makes unsettling comparisons between India’s treatment of its untouchables, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews and America’s treatment of African-Americans.
Anne Applebaum discusses “Twilight of Democracy,” and Barbara Demick talks about “Eat the Buddha.”
Two new books, Robert B. Reich’s “The System” and Zephyr Teachout’s “Break ’Em Up,” examine the impact of economic inequality in America.
In “Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything,” a Mexican-American girl lights candles in the desert for her deported mother. Then a spacecraft arrives.
In James Bird’s “The Brave,” a boy bullied for his numeric mind undergoes a metamorphosis when he’s sent to live on a reservation with his Native American mother.
Authors explore the way the invisible world impacts our lives, from bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics to the beneficial biodiversity on our skin.
Authors explore the way the invisible world impacts our lives, from bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics to the beneficial biodiversity on our skin.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The novelist’s debut, “Luster,” is winning accolades for its unfiltered depiction of sex, failure and a Black woman adrift in work and life.
Imagining all the reasons an automaton might not be writing the next Great American Novel.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Mr. Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, had been returned to prison in a dispute over the book, then released after a judge intervened.
“Many of them are not only dog-eared, but often double-cornered-dog-eared, the margins marked up with my own commentary.”
An excerpt from “Memorial Drive,” by Natasha Trethewey
Stephenie Meyer’s retelling of “Twilight,” Isabel Wilkerson’s examination of American racism, a biography of the drug kingpin El Chapo, and plenty more.
In “Big Friendship,” the best friends and podcast co-hosts rediscover their bond across a different kind of social distance.
The new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is an aching investigation of trauma and art.
Taken together, Julia Rose Kraut’s “Threat of Dissent” and Jacob Soboroff’s “Separated” give a sense of how U.S. immigration laws can be weaponized.
Noname and other Black thought leaders have taken what Oprah built and made something new.
Machines are gaining the ability to write, and they are getting terrifyingly good at it.
Swifts spend all their time in the sky. What can their journeys tell us about the future?
If you want to brush up before her new novel arrives this fall, here’s your guide.
“Must I Go” follows Li’s previous novel, “Where Reasons End,” in examining what it means to survive the death of a beloved child.
In Akwaeke Emezi’s poetic mystery, “The Death of Vivek Oji,” a community mourns a young person whose life contained multitudes.
If you’re feeling nostalgic for the quintessential summer vacation, pick up one of these books.
A selection of recent poetry books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “The Apocalypse Factory,” Steve Olson tells the story of Hanford, a small rural town in Washington State that played an outsize role in America’s nuclear ambitions.
In “Eat the Buddha,” Barbara Demick tells the story of Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule through the stories of the people who have seen it up close.
An excerpt from “Afterland,” by Lauren Beukes
When Mary Robinette Kowal asked me to help write a fictional space news story for her latest novel, I was happy to pitch in. It turns out painting Tom Sawyer’s picket fence is pretty fun.
Cherie Dimaline’s new novel, “Empire of Wild,” calls on old tropes of myths and folklore, only to make them new.
In “The Butterfly Lampshade,” objects are as alive as human beings.
In “Fathoms,” Rebecca Giggs ranges far and wide as she explores what our relationship to these enormous mammals reveals about ourselves.
Michael D’Antonio’s “The Hunting of Hillary” recounts the efforts by the right to discredit Clinton and bring her down.
From big picture advice to helpful hints, survivors of the spotlight have some words of wisdom for you.
“A Dominant Character,” by Samanth Subramanian, recounts the turbulent life of J.B.S. Haldane, the great British biologist and political activist.
Byron Lane’s novel, “A Star Is Bored,” is influenced by his experience working for Carrie Fisher.
Robert Draper’s “To Start a War” provides the deep background on the decisions that took America into war in the Middle East.
Michel Paradis’s “Last Mission to Tokyo” explores the injustices and ironies of war crimes trials by looking at one example from postwar Japan.
Conservatism always contained the seeds of authoritarianism.
“The Mirror and the Light,” the conclusion to Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, is one of 13 books nominated for this prestigious British literary award.
In her new memoir, the former poet laureate Natasha Trethewey writes about her upbringing and her mother’s violent death at the hands of an abusive husband.
A reader praises the ascent of women to management positions but recalls a past when they couldn't advance to editorial jobs. Also: The character of companies.
In a new book, planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson recalls how the Red Planet drew her to become a scientist.
We peer over the shoulders of Gwyneth Paltrow, Regina King, Charlamagne tha God, Yo-Yo Ma and others for a glimpse at their reading habits.
In “Ghosting the News,” Margaret Sullivan writes about the consequences of local newspapers closing across the country.
In his acclaimed novels and short stories, most of them set in his native Mississippi, he wrote about characters who had to transcend difficult moments.
New York Times staff members put their heads together with disability advocates to recommend movies, books, TV shows, dance and art that capture disability experiences.
Want to read something cold and dark on a hot summer day? We’ve got recommendations.
In “Alice Knott,” Blake Butler tells a twisting story in which famous paintings are destroyed and a woman wrestles with the elusive memories of her past.
Riley Sager’s “Home Before Dark,” Anna Downes’s “No Safe Place” and Eve Chase’s “The Daughters of Foxcote Manor.”
With nods to Narnia, Hogwarts, E. Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hilary McKay’s “The Time of Green Magic” is a love letter to the literary canon.
Colin Dickey talks about “The Unidentified,” and Miles Harvey discusses “The King of Confidence.”
In “Finish the Fight!,” excerpted here, New York Times journalists tell the stories of lesser-known figures in the battle to make the 19th Amendment a reality.
In Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women,” three old pals find they don’t know one another quite as well as they once did. And then one of them is murdered.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“Afterland,” a neo-noir, coast-to-coast chase novel, takes place after a pandemic has wiped out 99 percent of the men in the world.
Alice Feeney’s detective story shows just how small the world is for people who would rather not find each other.
Kate Reed Petty’s “True Story,” focuses on the rippling, decades-long impact from a high school sexual assault.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
He has survived H.I.V. and a heart attack, and while the influential gay novelist acknowledges that he is “hyper-vulnerable,” he intends to make it through this pandemic as well.
Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian exile, said the news showed the vast differences between the two neighboring countries on human rights.
In his latest installment of The Literati, Edward Sorel illustrates the epic battle for control of the Fabian Society, an elite group of socialists, at the turn of the last century.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Where freethinkers go to fight.
A judge agreed that federal officials had returned Michael D. Cohen to prison because he wanted to publish a book this fall about President Trump.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to, read and watch.
His novels chronicled the difficult days after the Spanish Civil War. He was, his biographer, said, “the reference writer of the anti-Franco movement.”
Bronx-born and Boston-educated, he also worked as a translator in Paris and Amsterdam before settling in New York in the late 1960s. He died of Covid-19.
How tech companies and all of us can help slow global warming.
Well-designed puzzles, natural bug sprays, Paul McCarthy — and more.
New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas.
In his new best seller about the practice of family separation, the NBC News correspondent does not mince words.
In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?
“Especially the most amazingly weird and right sentence with ‘lasagna’ in it.”
The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort.
The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort.
This short essay collection includes Smith’s recent thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic, race relations in America and other subjects.
She was a bridge between Black activists and white Southerners, worked for Andrew Young and chronicled a Black Mississippi family’s struggle against racism.
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
An excerpt from “The Unidentified,” by Colin Dickey
The latest crop of horror fiction includes “Malorie” — Josh Malerman’s sequel to “Bird Box” — as well as “Mexican Gothic,” “Wonderland” and more.
Book sales jumped this spring at big-box stores, which stayed open and stocked essentials while other shops closed.
Robert J. Mrazek’s “The Indomitable Florence Finch” is the story of a Filipino woman who saved American lives, survived torture and lived to be 101.