It helps to be a little heartsick — and the best poet of your time. Our weeklong poetry challenge continues, including W.H. Auden himself reading “The More Loving One.”
In a host of books and articles, he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the usefulness of high school math.
At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.
In “The Palm House,” Gwendoline Riley offers understated yet cleareyed observations of human behavior — this time about middle-aged Londoners struggling to stay relevant.
“How It Feels to Be Alive,” by Megan O’Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.
In Sophie Mackintosh’s novel “Permanence,” cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication — and missing the mess.
In short, everything. Today, learn the second stanza, which gives us the poem’s most memorable phrase: “Let the more loving one be me.” Practice this line, and the others, with help from our game.
Film adaptations often vary from their original source material, and this short quiz challenges you to identify certain words on the screen that were not in the novel.
The eight letters by the 19th-century Romantic poet to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne, were taken decades ago from a Whitney family estate on Long Island.
Al confirmar la ubicación precisa de la casa de William Shakespeare en Blackfriars, una académica británica plantea nuevas preguntas sobre qué pretendía hacer con ella.
A new biography of Jan Morris shows why the journalist, world traveler, historian and essayist was far more than a trailblazer.
The autobiographical novella, first published 50 years ago, arguably created a new type of guy: the literary fly fisherman.
La era de “Girls” acabó hace tiempo. Pero su creadora aún tiene mucho que decir y enseñarnos.
It’s about love, the cosmos and everything in between. And all week we’ll have games and readings by poets laureate, beloved authors and an Oscar winner to help you memorize it.
La obra de Broadway sobre el autor británico de libros populares como ‘Matilda’ o ‘Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate’ se basa en los comentarios de Dahl a lo largo de los años.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s precise and devastating memoir chronicles the 328 days her son was held hostage in Gaza, and what came after.
In “This Vast Enterprise,” Craig Fehrman refreshes a familiar story with a rich chorus of voices.
En “Famesick”, su segundo libro de memorias, Dunham explora, con detalles ingeniosos y desgarradores, los estragos de la fama temprana y de vivir con una enfermedad crónica.
Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool rather than the source and summit of education.
In “How to Be a Dissident,” Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.
Test your knowledge, before or after reading T’s Culture issue.
The actor shares his favorite performances, films, meals and more.
Literature’s great B-sides, from “Romola” to “Between the Acts.”
Childhood stories that shape how we understand the world.
Three protagonists who changed how postwar U.S. thought of itself.
Six myths that remain essential to understanding literature and the human psyche.
Dua Lipa, Bernardine Evaristo and others share what to read over a lifetime.
Writers pick the classic and contemporary novels you must read from each country.
Fiction that shows what it means to create art amid crisis.
The Book Review editors discuss Solvej Balle’s seven-book series, “On the Calculation of Volume.” Plus, a selection of translated fiction to put on your reading list.
The British author Gwendoline Riley may be as emotionally guarded as the women in her novels, which have caught on in America.
The era of “Girls” is long gone. So why are we still so fascinated by its creator?
The author of “A Wolf Called Wander” recommends titles old and new, fantastical and true, that celebrate the natural world.
Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote “Famesick,” a new memoir, she’s taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.
Our columnist reviews this season’s new books.
The institution will feature five of the beloved author’s collage-based books in a series of interactive exhibits meant to engage children.
Current members of the museum have created a show that draws from, and comments on, the institution’s curious collections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom offered supporters who gave any amount a copy of his book. Roughly 67,000 donors received the memoir, accounting for roughly two-thirds of its total print sales.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In 1984, Jay McInerney was a famous, young, hedonistic novelist. Now 71, he is wistful as he wraps up his tetralogy about a couple whose city, and marriage, are tested by the pandemic.
Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.
Julia Langbein’s novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.
The U.S. poet laureate’s new book, “Transient Worlds,” collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.
Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.
In confirming the precise location of William Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house, a British scholar raises fresh questions about what he intended to do with it.
“I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.
Experts share the literature that has helped them cope with death, illness and despair.
Nelio Biedermann, un estudiante de apenas 22 años, ha sido comparado con Thomas Mann gracias a “Lázár”, su arrolladora saga familiar.
A revival of “Death of a Salesman” comes as the “Zionist consensus” is openly fracturing.
People are usually surprised when I admit that I love A.I.
In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk’s disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.
In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser.
Nicholas Enrich’s tell-all memoir, “Into the Wood Chipper,” has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.
This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.
Durante décadas, un estudio fotográfico en Londres tomo las fotos de pasaporte de algunas de las personalidades más importantes de su época.
Solvej Balle’s cult hit series about a woman trapped in a time loop continues with a fourth volume.
The long-running economics show on NPR is mining whimsical product experiments for content (and revenue) in a financially challenging environment.
This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of “Girls.”
In “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” a New York Post reporter paints an intimate portrait of the Kennedy scion and cabinet member.
A new history by Jonathan Cheng argues that an influx of missionaries in the late 19th century profoundly shaped the ruling Kim family dynasty.
Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” traces the influence of Dylan on the Beatles and the Beatles on Dylan.
(It’s about poetry. And you’ll love it.)
Tucker Carlson Books, a joint venture between Carlson’s media company and Skyhorse Publishing, will put out books by Russell Brand, Milo Yiannopoulos and more.
Try this short quiz on memorably snarky retorts and observations from five literary works.
Jay McInerney has written about the literary party boy Russell Calloway once a decade since the 1990s. He returns in the Covid novel “See You on the Other Side.”
Nameless no more, writers for The Economist are mixing it up on video from its studio in London.
“Go Gentle” throws together art heists, sexual assault and a coven of middle-aged divorcées on the Upper West Side.
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon both lost loved ones to the conflict in the Middle East. In “The Future Is Peace,” they look for hope and understanding.
Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his sweeping family saga.
“Lázár,” by Nelio Biedermann, is a multigenerational novel that spans the collapse of a monarchy, two world wars and a revolution.
In 10 minutes or less, this mom-and-pop London institution produced stylish snapshots for some of the world’s biggest stars.
As “the first nerd to enter poker,” he helped transform a game long ruled by intuition into one based on game theory, probability and logic.
What can we learn from April, a month of contradictions that never cleanly resolve themselves?
A new book by the historian Melvin Patrick Ely draws on court records to highlight the complex relationships between enslavers and the enslaved.
In “Empire of Skulls,” Paul Stob explores how a mania took over America.
After devoting her first novel to her wild mother, Violaine Huisman focuses her second on her father, a man who amassed wealth, love affairs and stories.
Mr. Cross, known for “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show,” isn’t afraid to say what should not be said.
El superventas polaco “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” es como un sueño febril posporno de realismo mágico de Europa del Este mezclado con “El placer de amar” pero con plantas.
The Chinese Communist Party has turned Lu Xun, a Mao-era hero who excoriated the establishment, into a bland, Disney-style character.
Major publishing houses risk unwittingly putting out books generated with A.I. tools. Authors and readers are frustrated, nervous and grasping for solutions.
In his excellent “The Oracle’s Daughter,” Harrison Hill looks at the people and the questions beyond the headlines.
The author discusses his newest book, about a 19-year-old’s curious death and the investigation that followed.
Tae Keller’s new novel, “When Tomorrow Burns,” offers reassuring answers to the question, “What do you do when your biggest fear comes true?”
Merlin Holland has spent decades dismantling the myths that grew up around his grandfather. He hopes his new book may finally settle the record.
Jóvenes mujeres obtienen ganancias de sus atrevidos textos que comparten a través de grupos de WhatsApp para esquivar a la policía moral.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Space Junk is a new publication from the fashion editor Jack Mills.
Memoirs from the front lines capture the high-octane pace, roller coaster stakes and unforgettable personalities of emergency medicine.
Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.
In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.
El creador de Bitcoin se ha ocultado tras un seudónimo durante 17 años. Pero un rastro de pistas enterradas en la historia del cripto conduce a un científico informático de 55 años llamado Adam Back.
The debate over words we can and can’t say.
A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe retraces the secret life of a 19-year-old Londoner who fell in with a gangster underworld.
Dean Young’s posthumous collection, “Creature Feature,” applies his characteristically giddy sense of unraveling to his own life and ill health.
Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.
Readers discuss the ways writing and artificial intelligence don’t mix. Also: A degraded civil culture.
In this novel, a group of authors race to finish a mystery manuscript, only to find themselves part of a lethal plot.
The Polish best seller “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” is like a post-porn fever dream of Eastern European magic realism crossed with a plant-based “Joy of Sex.”
In Emma Straub’s latest novel, “American Fantasy,” a pop group’s midlife return provides fodder for both comedy and redemption on the high seas.
Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly all of American popular music.
“Corto Maltese,” Hugo Pratt’s influential 1967 graphic novel, returns, with just as much to say about childhood during wartime.
“Esto es realmente la palabra de Dios”, dice un coleccionista. “¿Por qué no tener un ejemplar muy bonito?”.
A Vietnam veteran-turned-academic historian, he drew acclaim for portraying conflicts from the perspectives of generals as well as grunts on all sides, both in Vietnam and in World War II.
On a recent episode of the “Book Review” podcast, the former poet laureate Ada Limón made the case for why poetry matters and read two poems, including this one called “Instructions on Not Giving Up.”
*SPOILER ALERT* We asked Times readers and listeners of the “Book Review” podcast what questions they had for Andy Weir. Many wanted to know why he ended his book “Project Hail Mary” the way he did. Andy explains.
Try this short quiz to see how many titles and people you can pair up from five classic books.
The well-born protagonist of Nancy Lemann’s novel “The Oyster Diaries” returns home and immediately feels like an outsider.
In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.
Diagnosticado con autismo severo, los médicos dijeron que no hablaría, pero llegó a estudios de posgrado y debutó como novelista.
“This is actually God’s word,” says one collector. “Why not have a really nice copy of it?”
In Caro Claire Burke’s novel, “Yesteryear,” a homesteading momfluencer can no longer hide the scandal swirling just below the surface.
These novels marry good mysteries with unforgettable characters and the twists and turns of the investigative process to deliver page-turning thrills.
With the global entertainment business reeling during a period of rapid change, there was little enthusiasm on either side for a costly standoff.
Readers react to Sarah Wildman’s guest essay about the free-range childhood depicted in the Rob Reiner film “Stand by Me.”
Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.
“Yesteryear,” a debut novel about an influencer who is transported to the early 19th century, lands the author Caro Claire Burke in the middle of the culture wars.
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define anything at all.
The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning, modern rage.
The Book Review editors discuss fiction and nonfiction that caught their eye. Plus, Ada Limón on the power of poetry.
“The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.
With “Transcription,” the writer makes a case for the vitality of the form.
Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In his free time, Jeff Martin mobilized best-selling authors to travel to sold-out events in his hometown. He will soon expand his horizons.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s carefully applied ambition has propelled him to a rarefied perch.
She vividly recalls what the novel, and others like it, meant to her mother. Her own new book is “The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary.”
Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8.
The director, Luanne James, was fired at a board meeting for the Rutherford County Library System on Monday after she refused to move certain books to the adult section.
She told me that anyone who won’t read her book is not her friend and that I am contributing to the greater problem in the world.
In a new book, two botanists hope to reintroduce the 19th-century hobby of “Botanizing” to gardeners, if they can slow down long enough to take notice.
This month brings Barry Manilow and Martha Graham, Earth Day and Easter, as well as a pickle tour and a little night music.
In anticipation of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a Pulitzer winner visited 300 sites to see how history is displayed and, sometimes, erased.
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
These single-serving satires, family dramas and romances can be read cover-to-cover in one sun-dappled afternoon.
What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break.
Casi todas las ideologías pueden esgrimirse para hacer sentir a las mujeres que están fracasando.
The vice president’s book, to be released in June, will detail his return to Christianity after leaving the loosely evangelical practice of his childhood.
Books by Marie NDiaye, Daniel Kehlmann and Rene Karabash are among the shortlisted titles for the major award for fiction translated into English.
Yann Martel’s “Son of Nobody” joins many recent books that reimagine the classics, but offers a Nabokovian twist.
The sloppy, solipsistic narrator of Kirsten King’s novel, “A Good Person,” casts a witchy spell on a guy who dumped her. Hours later, he’s been stabbed to death.
El autor de ciencia ficción habla de ‘Proyecto Hail Mary”, su novela científica que fue adaptada en una película protagonizada por Ryan Gosling.
Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.
Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.
Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.
Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers.
The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul.
Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.