The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl’s murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero.
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.
Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light,” a new “Bridget Jones” and Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear series are some of this year’s most anticipated adaptations.
This short scene conceals the names of 13 books published in the middle decades of the 20th century. See if you can find them all and build a reading list along the way.
In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.
Mischa Berlinski’s shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said.
Details are in Caleb Femi’s new poetry collection, “The Wickedest.”
“Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
Mike Mignola’s “Bowling With Corpses” is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.
After she married Mark Rylance, the two often collaborated; her specialty was arranging music for Tudor-era plays. Then she wrote a period piece of her own.
In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never was,” Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of the 2000s.
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.
The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.
“The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,’” said the actress and author, “and all those songs, every single one, is amazing.”
Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II.
Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.
Jon Ingold, an author of celebrated narrative-driven games, thinks the industry fails to celebrate good writing or recognize it as a craft.
A cabdriver and mechanic before becoming a journalist, she brought personality and adventure to a once-staid genre. She once won a demolition derby and motorcycled across China.
Listen to 10 songs by the golden voiced, poetic singer-songwriter.
The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, “Aflame,” about his stays at a California monastery.
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie.
With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.
In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.
In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.
The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history.
As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You,” the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that have shaped her career.
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.
In a new essay collection, the influencer couple Shane and Hannah Burcaw peel back the layers of “interabled” relationships, including their own.
His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book.”
By day, he helped run an autism center he opened in a suburb of Paris. In the evening, he delighted audiences as a clown named Buffo. In between, he wrote novels.
En un comunicado en su sitio web, el autor de éxitos de superventas negó rotundamente las acusaciones publicadas en la revista New York.
In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.
Tom Lamont’s debut novel, “Going Home,” considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.
After his divorce devastated him, Azaria, a well-known voice actor, “dated himself” for a year.
In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits. “Clothes matter — especially when you get old,” he says.
“I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.
Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.
In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it.
In “What Happened to the McCrays?” middle-aged high school sweethearts share an unbearable history.
The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families across four generations.
Grady Hendrix’s new novel, “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” is a timely look at the mistreatment of women, with a dose of horror, monsters and magic.
El libro es rico en anécdotas sobre su infancia en Buenos Aires, pero no ofrece mucha información sobre la vida posterior como pontífice.
The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights into his papacy.
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
What made the N.F.L. star open “Inner Excellence” by Jim Murphy as the action continued? “I like to read.”
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does.
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the case’s relevance today.
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
In John Dufresne’s new book, “My Darling Boy,” a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids.
Aria Aber’s exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin’s nightworld.
He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet.
In “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography of Perle Mesta, Washington’s colorful, and oft-mocked, “hostess with the mostes’.”
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art after her book becomes a life-changing hit.
The writer and painter Frederic Tuten, 88, insists, “I’m beginning again.”
In “Three Men in a Room,” Mr. Lachman, an educator and former state senator, charted how power was secretly and corruptly wielded in New York State government.
Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict turns violent.
Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure.
Audiences may not be able to agree on how erotic the director Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller is, but it’s starting rich conversations.
MAGA has turned “the administrative state” into a battle cry.
Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases.
A rising star among New Age motivational speakers, he was brought down by a disaster during one of his retreats in Arizona, where three people died in a sweat lodge.
The latest from a Nobel laureate, a “Hunger Games” prequel and more.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.
In his State of the City address, the mayor focused on safety and affordability and only briefly alluded to his own challenging circumstances.
In “The Sinners All Bow,” Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster’s instincts to a 19th-century murder.
Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.
The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.
When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book “The Truth in the Light.” Here are some of them.
He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him. He came to believe the phenomenon was real.
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a supplementary guide.
How do you follow up a couple best-selling books? If you’re Patrick Radden Keefe, you star in a J. Crew ad.
In “We Tried to Tell Y’All,” Meredith D. Clark chronicles the heyday of Black Twitter.
Caryl Phillips’s new novel, “Another Man in the Street,” follows an immigrant who arrives in 1960s London.
“I’m very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books,” says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls “Frankie” his “first happy romance.”
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
Joshua M. Bernstein was writing about bars and nightlife when the craft brew wave started to rise.
Nearly six years after becoming a literary heavyweight with “Read with Jenna,” she’s starting her own publishing venture with Penguin Random House.
The self-help author Oliver Burkeman argues that the path to productivity — and peace of mind — begins with accepting your limitations.
“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion.
In her lively debut novel, “How to Sleep at Night,” Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay couple dials up the campaign rhetoric.
In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an asylum lawyer and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a women’s retreat.
Tips from writers, artists and a social worker that might make the practice less daunting.
Try this short quiz on investigators and inspectors cracking their cases around the globe.
A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.
Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”
Baena, quien estaba casado con la actriz Aubrey Plaza, coescribió la comedia existencial “Extrañas coincidencias”, y escribió y dirigió películas como “Amor zombie” y “Lujuria en el convento”.
Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.
The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.
Expatriation was nonetheless the making of me: liberated me, humbled me, revealed to me who I was and what I wanted my life to be.
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.”
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
Mr. Baena, who was married to the actress Aubrey Plaza, co-wrote the existential comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” and wrote and directed films including “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours.”
A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.
For decades, Dick Wolf has dominated prime- time programming. Now, at 78, he has plans to conquer his next world: streaming.
Family heirlooms remind the co-star of the documentary “Will and Harper” about new connections and the way she now walks through the world.
In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.
She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.
The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.
His long collaboration with Nancy Meyers produced a string of hit movies, including “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride,” that spoke to the moment.
His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.
Not in this universe, a new study concludes.
Your imaginary audience has a note taped to them: “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about stories, plots or characters. What do you have for me?”
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.
Karissa Chen’s debut, “Homeseeking,” follows two childhood sweethearts who meet in Shanghai, and whose lives are upended by the forces of history.
In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.
You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.
The author of “The Note” traces her “real obsession” to discovering “a slew of smart, gritty female sleuths who began to feel like friends.”
In Kate Fagan’s novel, “The Three Lives of Cate Kay,” a best-selling writer decides to reveal the tragedy behind her success.
In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.
Our Book Review staff on the best of 2024.
Where Times Opinion — and listeners — found joy this year.
In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp and very funny memoir.
Rebecca Kauffman’s fifth novel, “I’ll Come to You,” is a “Corrections”-esque tale of one clan’s dysfunctions and joys in mid-90s America.
En un viaje a Colombia para ver la producción de Netflix de “Cien años de soledad”, a una reportera le asaltaron recuerdos de lugares verdaderos.
As the year winds down, the last of the big buzzy films have hit the screen — and these five were based largely on memoirs and biographies. Try this quiz to see how many you know.
He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.
When I wrote about grieving my friend’s suicide, readers reached out to share stories of similar loss.
During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?
A voracious reader, the president liked poetry, Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter.
For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his reputation. Here is a look at the expanding Carter library.
What the 39th president did before he got to the White House is as interesting as what came after.
He is best known for his book about the Rolling Stones. But he mostly wrote about blues artists, some of them famous (B.B. King) and some less renowned (Furry Lewis).
On a trip to Colombia to see the Netflix production of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a reporter was struck by memories of real places.
His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”
“Knitting With Dog Hair”, un clásico del hazlo tú mismo de la década de 1990 escrito por Kendall Crolius, impulsó un movimiento dedicado. Este mes se publicó una edición actualizada con motivo de su aniversario número 30.
After publishing a definitive biography of Rodin, she went on to write about the underappreciated women who modeled for the giants of 19th-century French art.
El nuevo libro del fenómeno de la autoayuda trata sobre dejar que los demás hagan lo que quieran. ¿Será capaz de seguir sus propios consejos?
Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.
Our reviewer read these stories on a train, as the world rolled by out the window.
Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“I get real geek joy out of learning something new,” says the imprint’s vice president and publisher. She’s proud to have broadened the definition of a classic during her tenure.
Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of technology but a radical underestimation of humanity.
Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.
He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.
Times Opinion staffers share how they escaped it all this year.
T.J. Fixman on what makes an exciting Christmas thriller, his own interactions with airport security and what you shouldn’t leave in your luggage.
Betty Gordon enjoyed reconnecting with a famous former paramour. But her favorite part of 2024 was helping out a friend in trouble.
The books, movies, habits and hobbies we’ll take with us into the new year.
Republicans passed the law in 2023, joining other conservative states and counties that have sought to restrict the availability of certain books.