“Field Notes From an Extinction,” by Eoghan Walls, follows a naturalist who wants to study birds but ends up with a much harder task.
Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, “Now I Surrender,” weaves past and present in a baroque anti-Western set in contested borderlands.
Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where we go from here.
“Backstitch,” a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.
In “El Paso,” Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.
Tanya Bush, a writer and pastry chef in Brooklyn, makes a case for taking the scenic route to the recipe in a new “narrative cookbook.”
In M.L. Stedman’s new novel, “A Far-Flung Life,” the beauty and breadth of her Western Australian setting stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.
Smut on TV, in film and in the pages of popular romance novels is more plentiful and personal than ever. What happens when our screens are steamier than our bedrooms?
Our columnist on the month’s best new mysteries.
El progresismo performativo parece un orgasmo fingido: todo el mundo sabe que no es sincero y nadie es feliz.
Funny, furious and profane, “You With the Sad Eyes” finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits imposed by illness.
In “Hunt, Gather, Parent,” Michaeleen Doucleff promised to make family life easier. Her new book, “Dopamine Kids,” asks something harder: Can parents give up their own vices and let kids go back to the basics?
In Maria Stepanova’s novel “The Disappearing Act,” an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.
James Cahill’s “The Violet Hour” contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.
These 13 bloodthirsty tales will keep you up at night with clever thrills and heart-pounding action.
Emily Brontë’s classic Gothic romance is the basis for a new movie. It’s also more bonkers than you remember.
The two-part documentary on HBO is not just the story of a gruesome murder, but a portrait of the city, neighborhood and home where it happened.
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
“A World Appears” explores what makes you you.
Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more.
Twelve recommendations for young fans of Mo Willems.
For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people’s stories. Now, in “The Golden Boy,” she’s finally telling one of her own.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.
A magnetic personality, she reinvented herself twice, bringing the same spirit to investigating child abuse and communing with dogs that she did to writing poetry.
The bassist and photographer who logged time in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins unpacks one of the most creative and chaotic times of her life in a new memoir.
In a new book, the biographer Justine Picardie romps through a century of royal wardrobes.
Yorkshire del Oeste, donde se escribió la historia original de ‘Cumbres borrascosas’, ofrece una ventana a las fuerzas que están perturbando la política británica.
Considered an “author’s publisher” at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.
From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me.
Lauren Yee’s boisterous play “Mother Russia,” about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San Francisco childhood.
“Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.
Performative progressiveness feels like a fake orgasm: Everybody knows it’s not sincere and no one is happy.
We talk to the author of a new book about why the problem is so hard to solve.
Rachel Reid told fans that the disease’s progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated follow-up book would be pushed back.
Wesley Morris, host of “Cannonball,” and Sasha Weiss, the culture editor of The New York Times Magazine, discuss Emerald Fennell’s steamy film adaptation of the novel “Wuthering Heights.”
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson’s enigmatic novella
The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.
Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.
Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.
In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.
“More Than Enough” traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.
Whatever you make of Emerald Fennell’s R-rated “Wuthering Heights” movie, the region where the original novel was written is worth revisiting in its own right.
The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.
In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.
Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.
In his lyrical writings, he explored physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
Readers discuss the justices’ decision rejecting tariffs. Also: PEN America defends its record on free speech; a plea to old-guard Republicans.
Ian McGuire’s new novel, “White River Crossing,” tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.
Test your knowledge of five books and their big-screen counterparts in this short quiz.
A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.
The best stories in “Brawler” find the writer tackling the tectonic shifts that can suddenly crack open seemingly secure families.
Our columnist on four stellar new releases.
The outrageous reality TV star has written a memoir — part evolution, part exorcism. She’s more than ready to tell you why.
In Charleen Hurtubise’s new novel, “Saoirse,” a traumatic family secret propels an American teenager to Ireland in the early 1990s.
With “The Lost Boys” on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in “Dracula” in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sunk their teeth into pop culture.
Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, the director appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about his latest film.
His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
“The Optimists,” by Brian Platzer, is an account of an extraordinary character, as remembered by her middle-school instructor.
What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront.
A writer grapples with the death of her sister, and the end of a marriage, during a challenging trek in Tibet.
Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.
Our romance columnist says, “With romcoms, you need to go big or go home.” These novels do just that.
Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.
A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
PEN America is no longer acting in the best traditions of its august history.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
James Salter’s “Light Years” had a big influence on “So Old, So Young,” his new book about college friends drifting in and out of one another’s lives.
We asked experts for titles that will help you set and protect your limits.
In Tayari Jones’s new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they’ve always yearned for.
In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
The best-selling author Marie Lu recommends thrilling reads that ground enchanting adventures in recognizable settings.
From Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier to Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi nearly a century later, the onscreen connection between Cathy and Heathcliff has taken many turns.
Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.
In “Playing for Time,” she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.
The milestones of an undergrad friend group give shape and color to Grant Ginder’s latest novel, “So Old, So Young.”
How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.
In “Why I Am Not an Atheist,” Christopher Beha makes the case for faith.
Mohammed Hanif’s “Rebel English Academy” follows three characters in the politically fraught Pakistan of the late 1970s.
Try this quiz on the documents, writers and events that led to the American Revolution and the foundation of the country.
Reader disagree with a guest essay that argued that the books feel dated and irrelevant today. Also: What A.I. can’t do in medicine.
A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results.
In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color.
Learning about our family’s past can connect us to the turmoil and difference that have always been America’s story.
With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed.
A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.”
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
After 180 years, “Wuthering Heights” retains its ability to shock because it tells the truth about how deeply strange love can be.
The heart is not romance; it’s the organ that guards the line between life and death.
A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular success.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the author appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about her books and the Netflix phenomenon they sparked.
Before leaving The Times after 22 years, David Brooks responds to readers’ questions.
A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.
“Cinnamon roll,” “Oops! there’s only one bed,” “HFN” — how much do you know about romance literature? Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, guides you through her 101-word glossary.
“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”
El autor turco tardó años en conseguir la adaptación correcta para una de sus más famosas novelas, la cual llegará a pantallas como una serie de nueve capítulos.
Este formato, alguna vez el más popular entre los lectores, está cerca de la extinción en Estados Unidos.
The character’s racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film’s casting is “whitewashing.” But what does the original novel really say?
Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic give the March sisters’ story a darker and more contemporary spin.
From cinnamon rolls to stern brunch daddies, here are 101 terms you should know to understand the popular literary genre.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A death doula reflects on the many ways people process loss — even when tears don’t come.
The actor and Jacob Elordi play the tortured lovers from the Emily Brontë classic in this florid, overstuffed version by Emerald Fennell.
In “End of Days,” Chris Jennings recounts how a collision between apocalyptic Christianity and federal overreach led to a deadly standoff in Idaho.
Según un nuevo libro, si quieres sentirte más amado y más feliz no debes intentar cambiar a nadie. Mejor cambia las conversaciones.
After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms.
In “Emilio Pucci,” the subject’s niece and her husband explore the early life of the Italian designer who dressed the jet set.
What’s a publisher to do when a novel hews close to the news cycle?
A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary’s infamous “blood countess,” separating fact from myth.
Rebecca Novack’s novel, “Murder Bimbo,” is a devious and outrageously entertaining satire that skewers America’s surreal political landscape.
In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson.
His book about time-traveling dinosaurs became a movie. He also adapted the Broadway show “Into the Woods” for young readers and wrote about his struggles with dyslexia.
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
A new book, “How to Feel Loved,” links our social skills to how content we are.
The acclaimed writer discusses the limits of kindness and the foundations of sin.
A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
El autor, quien dio proyección mundial a la literatura japonesa, reflexiona sobre el envejecimiento y su lugar en el mundo de las letras.
Test your memory of romance-related lines from five novels and stories.
The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It’s not.
Gurnaik Johal follows seven characters in interconnected narratives about climate change and the rise of authoritarianism.
Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.
Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.
As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but “A Better Life” feels full of easy targets.
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the built world with a wary eye.
He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912.
In her new novel in stories, “This Is Not About Us,” Allegra Goodman traces the small but vivid dramas of one sprawling Jewish family.
In his new novel, Jonathan Miles considers the complicated ethics and logistics of eliminating an invasive species.
Video games are big business, and the company behind Mario, Zelda and Pokémon may be the most important player, says the author of a new corporate history.
Our books reporter Elizabeth A. Harris explores the disappearance of mass market paperbacks — and talks with Stephen King about what paperbacks have meant to him.
Thirteen recommendations for fans of the Smile series.
The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again.
A political reporter at The Washington Post, she also wrote “Long Time Passing,” about the Vietnam War’s social, political and psychological aftereffects.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here’s where to start.
Glamour, silence and a very big hat.
In “A Killing in Cannabis,” Scott Eden tells the story of a man who tried to straddle the lines between the legal and black-market cannabis worlds, with deadly consequences.
“I love to fall asleep with a book nearby,” says the “Autobiography of Cotton” author. “Dreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways.”
The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.
A recent production of “Othello” proves that small creative flowers can grow between the dreary slabs of cultural concrete laid by the Communist Party.
A number of potential presidential candidates are releasing memoirs as the shadow primary heats up.
Catherine and Heathcliff are returning to the screen, but their passion burns brightest in a handful of sentences from Emily Brontë’s novel.
In “Bernie for Burlington,” Dan Chiasson’s affection for his subject risks turning history into a sales pitch.
In “The Family Snitch,” the reporter Francesca Fontana delves into her father’s criminal history — and their complicated, painful relationship.
Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.
The pioneering photographer André Kertész is the subject of a new book by Patricia Albers.
A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.