Janny Scott’s memoir, “The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father,” explores the consequences of generations of inherited Main Line wealth.
New collections from Carianne Leung (“That Time I Loved You”), Amy Hempel (“Sing to It”) and Mark Mayer (“Aerialists”) balance anxiety with humor.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a new and gruesome Lucas Davenport novel and the latest appearance of Parnell Hall’s cantankerous murder-solving puzzle lady.
Jonathan Carr’s “Make Me a City” reconstructs an alternate history of Chicago in fictional source materials.
T Kira Madden’s debut, “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls,” recalls a troubled childhood in chapters as fragmented as her family life was.
In her new novel, “The Bird King,” history is infused with fantasy, drama and puckish humor.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The first book by María Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to be translated into English is a consistently delightful mix of art history, personal reminiscence and aesthetic theory.
The subject of attention is everywhere in publishing these days, spanning disparate genres from self help to satire to fiction.
A number of book publishers are selling the report, released on Thursday, even though it can be read for free online.
A number of book publishers are selling the report, released on Thursday, even though it can be read for free online.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sheri Berman’s “Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe” sees the political history of Europe as one step forward, one step back.
The scholar’s latest book, coinciding with his new PBS series, “Reconstruction,” is a harrowing look at the resurgence of white nationalism in the late 19th century and the New Negro movement to combat it.
In this week’s Crossing the Border newsletter, a trip to Brooks County, deep in South Texas brush country, where the terrain is deadly.
Melville’s novel and Britten’s opera are poignant reminders of the beauty and relevance of gay history.
Jennifer duBois’s satirical novel “The Spectators” charts the past and present woes of a confrontational TV star who may have inspired a mass shooting.
In “The Absent Hand,” Suzannah Lessard dissects a diverse swath of America, looking to understand the malls, green expanses and urban sprawl that surround us.
The soccer star, whose new book is “Wolfpack,” began the sport because of a how-to guide from the library. “I scored 27 goals in my first three games. I guess I do owe it all to books.”
The unions for film and television scribes say the top four agencies are violating the law.
In her Prescribed Reading column, Abigail Zuger looks at books exploring the immune system and the tumultuous history of vaccination.
The talk show host’s interview of the acclaimed biographer is a long-awaited win for Team Coco.
In her memoir-in-essays, Grace Talusan writes about her experience as an immigrant to the United States, her survival of childhood abuse and returning to visit the Philippines, her native country.
Ellis, perpetual bad boy and avatar of Generation X, delivers in his first nonfiction book, “White,” a series of rants against the politics of the young and woke.
Adina Hoffman’s “Ben Hecht” and Julien Gorbach’s “The Notorious Ben Hecht” examine the man’s career as both a screenwriter and a political activist.
Like Henry Darger, he created an epic fantasy. Why is Tolkien remembered, and Darger nearly forgotten?
The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “Minutes of Glory” tackles the absurdities, injustices and fortitude of people testing new ways against the old.
Here are reviews of the 15 winners and finalists for the awards.
Petry’s debut, “The Street,” was the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. A new volume collects it with another novel, “The Narrows,” and a sampling of her criticism.
“Keats, for me, represents the integrity of the mission of the poet,” said Mr. Plumly, whose books included a “personal biography” called “Posthumous Keats.”
A selection of recent books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Lori Gottlieb’s “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” is a treasure trove of stories and hard-earned advice.
Caro’s “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing” describes a lifetime of digging for facts.
In “Firefighting,” Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson Jr. explain their roles in averting a financial disaster.
At the heart of Takis Würger’s “The Club” — part thriller, part coming-of-age tale — is an elite but sinister invitation-only fraternity.
Honors go to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The South Florida Sun Sentinel. And there was a posthumous award for Aretha Franklin.
In a revelatory trilogy, Professor Davis, called “one of the most influential historians of his generation,” placed slavery at the center of American history.
The endlessly quotable pieces in Chelsey Minnis’s latest collection play with notions taken from Hollywood’s golden era.
The Pride Plays festival will feature more than a dozen readings from plays by seminal L.G.B.T. writers, as well as by newcomers.
Bill McKibben’s new book, “Falter,” takes a mostly grim view of our willingness to avert environmental disaster. But he leaves open the possibility that we may yet avoid the worst.
Like “Conversations With Friends,” “Normal People” also traces a young romance in Ireland.
Talks broke down on Friday, upending a way of doing business that had been in place for decades. A guide to how the dispute came about and what lies ahead.
Persephone Books in London — devoted mostly to overlooked works by female writers in the mid-1900s — celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
E L James after “Fifty Shades,” Ruth Reichl’s delicious new memoir, Sally Rooney and more.
Raise your pumpkin-spice latte! The reality-show star has a new advice book.
Talks between TV and movie writers and their agencies on a new code of conduct broke off before a midnight deadline. “It has become clear a big change is necessary,” the Writers Guild of America said.
Whether he was writing a Restoration period biography or a book on war poetry, his background in music informed his approach.
After her father died, Katie Arnold became a marathon runner. Her luminous memoir, “Running Home,” explores why.
Reichl discusses “Save Me the Plums,” and Emily Bazelon talks about “Charged.”
Parker’s third collection provides its audience a space to celebrate black excellence and black joy as well as to commiserate about injustice.
James changed the literary landscape with her blockbuster erotica trilogy, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Now she is trying something (sort of) new.
Can you recognize the albums bearing the names of the Irish playwright’s works?
Lazy, rambunctious, downright weird: The cats and dogs in these stories are unique, lovable — and relatable.
In “The Parisian,” Isabella Hammad conjures up the Middle East between the two world wars, its tensions expressed in the coming-of-age of an Arab man.
On their websites, famous novelists talk frankly about how they became writers.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth” and Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth,” we have a picture of the increasingly dire problem of global warming.
David Orr’s “Dangerous Household Items,” John Koethe’s “Walking Backwards” and Sarah Gambito’s “Loves You” celebrate daily moments in very different registers.
In 1999, the journalist Mark Bowden wrote “Black Hawk Down,” documenting the 1993 United States military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Candidates should tell us what they actually love to read, and there shouldn’t be any wrong answers.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Andrew Ridker’s “The Altruists” charts how expectations clash when a widower’s two adult children return to the family home in St. Louis.
On the Netflix series “Special,” the creator and star Ryan O’Connell mines his experiences being a gay millennial with cerebral palsy for humor.
In “The Lions’ Den,” Susie Linfield tours the minds of eight thinkers, including Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky, investigating their relationship to the Jewish state.
Marc Weitzmann’s “Hate” explores the increasing anti-Semitism that has infected French society over the past several years.
The author of novels including “In the Time of the Butterflies,” just reissued for its 25th anniversary, has always been taken with Milton’s Satan: “Sorry, God, but he got the better part.”
The epic fantasy series is more than just escape. It is a way of imagining our way to the future.
At 80, the legendary playwright reflects on his forward-looking art.
This issue pays tribute to the artist’s inability to unquestioningly accept the society in which she lives.
“Outside Looking In” explores the LSD-fueled escapades of Timothy Leary and his Harvard graduate students.
“The Alarming Palsy of James Orr,” by Tom Lee, combines a Kafkaesque premise with modern British social satire.
A charismatic and well-pedigreed contestant, he confessed to Congress that his ballyhooed TV performances in the 1950s had been scandalously rigged.
In “Naamah,” an inventive first novel by Sarah Blake, Noah’s wife recounts the trials — and surprising pleasures — of life on the ark after the Flood.
In an isolated religious community, some of the men have been raping the women for years. When they are finally arrested, the women must decide what to do next.
This assemblage of personal reflections and interviews arrives as readers wait for the final volume of the 83-year-old historian’s multivolume life of Lyndon Johnson.
After almost 20 years at the magazine, Tonne Goodman is cutting loose. Her memoir will be published next week.
“The House of the Pain of Others,” by the Mexican writer Julián Herbert, revisits the murder of 300 Chinese immigrants over three days in 1911, during the Mexican Revolution.
In his new book, the former United States attorney reflects on his tenure.
The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, last year’s winner, was among five women on the shortlist of six authors for the translated literature prize. All six translators are women.
“Save Me the Plums” is a delicious memoir of a decade that took her from the glory days of Condé Nast to the morning when the office door was closed for good.
The objections noted for each book reflect the issues dividing the United States.
Instagram plant culture can be intimidating. In his new book, “Wild at Home,” Hilton Carter shares some tips on how anyone — even a novice — can incorporate plants into their lives.
Peter Heller’s “The River” juxtaposes a tense social situation with a raging wildfire.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Qurratulain Hyder’s “River of Fire,” “transcreated” into English by the author, gushes across more than 2,000 years of the subcontinent’s cultural life.
Rooney’s second novel tracks two gifted but troubled teenagers across four years of friendship and occasional romance.
“Charged,” by Emily Bazelon, argues that prosecutors have far too much power over the outcomes of criminal cases and lays out a path for urgent reform.
Negotiations between the Writers Guild and the talent agencies stave off a potentially chaotic disruption of the entertainment business.
Negotiations between the Writers Guild and the talent agencies stave off a potentially chaotic disruption of the entertainment business.
A deep dive into the Chernobyl disaster, a debut British-Palestinian novelist and more.
Carr’s new memoir, “All That You Leave Behind,” documents her relationship with her father, the former Times reporter and columnist David Carr, and her own troubles, including with alcoholism.
Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression.
Ms. McIntyre won three Nebula Awards for her writing and inspired other female authors. She also wrote five novels set in the “Star Trek” universe.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson’s “Coders.”
Concerned about the limited interests of conventional publishers, Mr. Baumbach also helped found a publishing collective run by writers.
Tyler Kepner’s new book, “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches,” is the culmination of a three-year scavenger hunt across the baseball landscape.
The “Seven Day Book Cover Challenge” has become digital catnip for book lovers online.
C.D. Wright’s posthumous book “Casting Deep Shade” offers a guided walk through beech forests and her own wide-ranging mind.
They were once so close. Now, writers are accusing their representatives of enriching themselves at their clients’ expense.
Lisa See’s 2005 novel “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” presents a bond between two women — laotongs, or “old sames” — in nineteenth-century China.
Some of the best illustrated children’s books are not stories — they’re poems that use language, form and rhythm to let kids reflect, imagine and think.
“The Club,” by Leo Damrosch, is a dazzling history of the get-togethers during which London’s leading lights — including Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith — ate, drank and exchanged ideas.
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “The Empire and the Five Kings” and Ted Galen Carpenter’s “Gullible Superpower” offer conflicting advice on where we should go from here.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In Nathan Englander’s “Kaddish.com,” a Brooklyn man — who’s defected from Orthodox Judaism — hires a stranger to recite the Kaddish prayers for his father.
Alice Paul Tapper, who wrote “Raise Your Hand,” is just 11. And the author of the Expanse novels, James S. A. Corey, is really two men — Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
In her new novel, “Trust Exercise,” Susan Choi trains her lens on a group of high school drama students, zooming in first on their teenage years, then focusing on them years later.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features Bernie Gunther’s final appearance in Berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric Swedish sleuth.
Salvatore Scibona’s bold new novel spans generations, but at its heart is a young man who comes of age during the Vietnam War.
In “The Island of Sea Women,” best friends who are professional divers confront grim fates in the years before the Korean War.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
With her debut novel, “The Parisian,” Isabella Hammad joins a group of contemporary Palestinian writers exploring how nostalgia and loss are refracted across generations of families.
“Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox, is a remarkable testament of suffering and self-transformation by a man who survived more than 40 years in solitary confinement.
In 1949, Richard Wright’s best-selling novel drew criticism from his former protégé. A new HBO movie adaptation attempts to marry the two writers’ sensibilities for a modern age.
The city becomes a fever dream in Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s “Bangkok Wakes to Rain” and Veeraporn Nitiprapha’s “The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth.”
If you don’t feel like you have the time to read more, or struggle to finish a book, this method will help. If you have time for Twitter or Instagram, you have time for these books.
A series of readings at Classic Stage Company will present the fruits of a project that charged people with “translating” Shakespeare into accessible (and faithful) modern English.
Arthur C. Brooks, in “Love Your Enemies,” offers advice on how to restore civility to American politics.
The essays in “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” recount Damon Young’s evolution from blogger to Established Magazine Writer even as he searches for his authentic self.
In “Women’s Work,” Megan K. Stack dares a closer look at the domestic labor arrangements that have made her writing possible.
Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl” explores the causes of the Chernobyl explosion, and Kate Brown’s “Manual for Survival” considers the consequences.
“The Right Side of History,” by Ben Shapiro, and “Clear and Present Safety,” by Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko, declare current pessimism is totally overblown.
In “The Tradition,” Jericho Brown witnesses and celebrates vulnerability and resilience in a country that too often scorns or condemns them.
Toews’s eighth book was inspired by a real-life series of attacks in a Mennonite community.
Ann Beattie’s new novel, “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” follows its protagonist from prep school in 2001 into his 30s today.
In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced grants supporting 233 projects around the country, two weeks after the latest effort to close the agency.
Brian Switek’s “Skeleton Keys” takes a close look at our 206 bones and how they allow us to “stomp, fly, swim, slither, dig, run.”
A new production by Ivo Van Hove with a live orchestra makes the writer Thomas Mann a character in his most famous creation.
The novelist fled Revolutionary Russia a century ago this week. How did the experience shape his writing?
From melting ice to diminishing populations, these books look at the effects of climate change and humans’ shifting relationship with our planet.
In “Horizon,” the eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia.
A conversation with Lori Gottlieb about her new book, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.”
A history of the moon landing 50 years later, a new novel from Sally Rooney and more.
A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2019
Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” follows the intense relationships and betrayals among high school friends and their teachers.
Clive Thompson’s “Coders” demystifies the work done to create the algorithms and programs that have come to dominate our world.
In honor of April Fools’ Day, we’ve collected some of the best book frauds from the last 100 years.
Nell Freudenberger’s eloquent new novel, “Lost and Wanted,” invokes cutting-edge science and the supernatural to plumb the ineffable in human relationships.
“Power reveals. Do I want people to know that? Yes.”
In the 1980s and ’90s, the novelist was seen as a literary bad boy and the voice of his generation. Now 55, he’s about to publish his first book in nine years.
Salman Rushdie on a “dazzling” debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the birth of American Modernism and more.
Bharara discusses “Doing Justice,” and Senator Doug Jones talks about “Bending Toward Justice.”
“Where the Crawdads Sing,” which came out last August, got an initial boost from Reese Witherspoon. It’s now sold over 1.5 million copies.
The graphic novelist Box Brown looks at the government report that anticipated our current debates about the legalization of weed.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The announcement that it will become a series has reverberated throughout the world. Can the streaming giant do the classic justice?