Elinor Lipman’s “Good Riddance” offers an up-to-the-minute look at a young woman’s life in Manhattan.
The guidebook covers Cantonese food in Asia, Europe and the United States.
“Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation,” by Steve Luxenberg, is an elegant history of the mostly losing battle to protect the civil rights of newly freed black citizens.
Two new books, “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox, explore the benefits of tuning out.
The third novel in this propulsive, violent series trains a fictional lens on some of today’s most pressing issues, including the opioid crisis and political corruption.
A novel about the George W. Bush administration, Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive,” a sneak peek at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming novel and more.
This memoir by the former deputy director of the F.B.I. joins a roster of recent and alarming books by high-ranking members of the United States’ justice and intelligence communities.
As a publishing team, she and her husband, Ian, set out in 1939 “to change the reading habits of America,” and to a large extent they did.
Ms. Warren’s 1974 book, “The Front Runner,” portrayed a positive, open relationship between two men and sold millions of copies.
Politicians’ memoirs can give insight into their values.
Benjamin Dreyer talks about his best-selling guide to writing, and Thomas Mallon discusses “Landfall,” his new novel about the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
In Hannah’s new novel, the Culver Valley police force is searching for a killer who sends homemade books to prospective victims.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Julie Yip-Williams, diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at 37, couldn’t find a book that would help her prepare for death. So she decided to write one herself.
Her books were praised for their witty, honest portraits of the immigrant experience, especially of those who moved to Britain from the West Indies after World War II.
Whitney Scharer’s “The Age of Light” tells the story of the journalist and model who was often overshadowed by her lover and collaborator Man Ray.
In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang unravels a long history of coming to terms with mental illness.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Tom Clavin’s “Wild Bill” details the life of a legendary gunfighter whose real name wasn’t even Bill.
Explore the cities, countries, regions and states in Travel’s “52 Places to Go in 2019” through these books.
“I’ve read the books many times to my own children, astonished at how much is in them for my grown-up self — about that growing-up process, and about the times I grew up in, too.”
Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and others will also take part in the festival, whose theme is the narrowing gap between public and private life.
The journalist, whose new book is “Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays,” read indiscriminately in her youth: “Bookish children are not critics. They just like to read.”
An annual celebration, this year attended by some 300 costumed revelers, is one of the regular events around the country that unite both the novelist’s hard-core fans and period dance enthusiasts.
The writer-actress behind the wild, disorienting comedy of “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve” is bringing her sneak-attack humor to New York.
We read Michelle Obama’s memoir.
In Amy Greenberg’s “Lady First,” Sarah Polk — the wife of President James K. Polk — emerges as a powerful strategist who wielded her status with a velvet vengeance.
The daughter of Gui Minhai, a Swedish bookseller detained in China, said the ambassador arranged a meeting with men who first offered to help, then cajoled and pressured her.
Readers have noticed an overlap between “The Woman in the Window,” by A.J. Finn — a pen name for Dan Mallory — and Sarah A. Denzil’s “Saving April.”
Meg Wolitzer’s novel is our February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
Randall, a poet and librarian, started the press out of his home, eventually publishing the work of about 200 writers amid Detroit’s flowering Black Arts Movement.
In his book “Parkland,” Dave Cullen follows the survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on their quest to change gun laws and heal themselves.
In “Walk This Way,” the reporter Geoff Edgers tells the story of a crucial moment in the history of pop music.
Daniel Immerwahr’s provocative and absorbing history draws attention to those islands and archipelagos too often sidelined in the national imagination.
We asked the artists Scott and Tyson Reeder to envision what happens on page 76 of four novels and one collection of poetry.
Feeling like you’ve kissed too many frogs? Given up on love altogether? These books might provide some escape this Valentine’s Day.
“We Cast a Shadow,” a first novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, is a hilarious and profound meditation on racial bias, and how it warps our capacity for love.
Edward Orloff represents a roster of buzzy writers, but he also builds bookshelves for some of New York’s biggest literary stars.
With her husband, Alvin Toffler, she was half of a team that produced global best-sellers, including “Future Shock.” Recognition was belated.
“Bowlaway,” Elizabeth McCracken’s first novel in 18 years, is a family saga, a burlesque chronicle of eccentrics and a fractured, fanciful fable.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Christopher Castellani’s latest vividly reimagines the relationship between Williams and Frank Merlo, and offers intricate thoughts about the nature of fidelity, the artistic impulse and estrangement.
“The Water Dancer,” out in September, is about an enslaved man whose life is altered by a near-death experience.
Urgent new reading on the subjects of race and gender disparities in America.
These writers describe a region where women can encounter great privilege and fierce repression at the same time.
His novel of generational and cultural conflict among Chinese immigrants became a hit Broadway musical and then a film that earned five Oscar nominations.
His children’s books brought a refreshing jolt to the genre, but his erotica made him an outcast in some circles.
Mr. Sims, a former White House communications aide, is alleging that the president used his campaign organization as a “cutout” to improperly punish former employees.
In “Lost Children Archive,” an unhappily married couple set out on a road trip, with their two young children, to visit the ancestral homeland of the Apaches in Arizona.
In “All the Lives We Ever Lived,” Katharine Smyth revisits “To the Lighthouse” for comfort and insight after the death of her father.
Her research raised the profile of a composer too often overshadowed by her husband and established her as a major figure of German Romanticism.
Thomas Mallon’s “Landfall” imagines the goings-on inside the Bush White House.
David Bowman’s posthumously published “Big Bang” travels from 1950 to 1963, and includes appearances by nearly every boldface name of the era.
I don’t want to focus on how rape changed me. I want to focus on changing rape culture.
Despite everything, I cling to the dumb, idealistic conviction that every contradictory truth adds up to create a larger, truer picture of the world.
In his studio in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, he brings together his work as a fine artist and as an illustrator.
Mr. Wahl published more than 100 lucidly written books, some illustrated by the likes of Maurice Sendak, Norman Rockwell and Edward Gorey.
Two more books by former members of President Trump’s administration hit the best-seller list this week.
The discovery of two extinct penguin subspecies in New Zealand is a cautionary tale of the threats faced by the waddling birds in the wild.
James discusses “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” and Stephanie Land talks about “Maid.”
A bookstore in Atlanta where half of the books aren’t for sale?
“Seven Gothic Tales,” like the biography of the Danish author herself, provides the perfect anti-romance for this Valentine’s Day.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Before you read Michiko Kakutani’s review of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” check out our 2005 review of Marlon James’s first book.
The life of a legendary cowboy, a tribute to the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, a shout-out to hip-hop and more.
Giacomo Sartori’s “I Am God” imagines a deity who winks and nudges, rants and complains.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Jill Abramson says she was “up all night going through my book because I take these claims of plagiarism so seriously.”
Correspondence in the modern age.
After the success of what her publisher called “the quintessential word-of-mouth book,” many of her novels were made into TV movies or mini-series.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Mexican writer has made a name for herself with experimental books and essays. Her latest, “Lost Children Archive,” is a road trip novel that shows off her intellectual sensibilities.
A British cultural exchange body said it had been wrong to turn down the writer’s effort 73 years ago but stood by the criticism of his marmalade: “Bad recipe!”
“Unexampled Courage,” by Richard Gergel, is a riveting account of the 1946 legal case that spurred the federal government to act in defense of racial equality.
The author of “Figuring” (and the brain behind the Brain Pickings website) likes how children’s books speak “a language of absolute sincerity, so deliciously countercultural in our age of cynicism.”
From “Frog and Toad” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” many of the most enduring 20th-century titles share a secret language of queer compassion.
Edith Wharton’s 1905 classic offers endless fodder for comparison with the empathetic social novels that succeeded it.
Two authors weigh in.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel, people stop waking up in the morning. They’re not dead, just trapped in a dream-filled netherworld.
In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” the journalist Adam Higginbotham reconstructs the disaster from the ground up, recounting the prelude to it as well as its aftermath.
Here’s how designers get a concept from good to must-pick-up.
Julie Yip-Williams’s memoir, “The Unwinding of the Miracle,” written before her death at 42 last year, is an exquisitely moving exhortation to the living.
A good novel can be a reminder that other people have endured tragedies, long ordeals, bad odds.
Three books about presidential speeches and speechwriters.
“Nobody’s Looking at You” collects pieces about the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, the concert pianist Yuja Wang, the writer Joseph Mitchell and other subjects.
A reader notes that many nonliterary factors determine “the ultimate fate of a book.”
In “Same Same,” the renowned graphic designer Peter Mendelsund presents a metafictional sendup of artists’ retreats and tech-industry think tanks.
The follow-up to “The Hate U Give” introduces a heroine whose late father was a local hip-hop legend. She has a struggling mom, a venal manager and a ton of talent.
The Victorian art critic’s ideas about how industrialization stifled creativity and polluted the environment are just as relevant today as they were in the 19th century.
The revolutionary advances in physics pioneered by Einstein are at the heart of new books that cover phenomena both celestial and mundane.
In “A Bright Future,” Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist look to Europe for examples of how nuclear energy can help solve the global warming crisis.
The disorder is poorly understood. Should novelists be able to make it mean whatever they want?
“Bowlaway” revolves around a large cast of characters and a candlepin bowling alley in New England.
In “An Indefinite Sentence,” Siddharth Dube recounts his personal struggle to destigmatize homosexuality and AIDS in his home country.
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.
With “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul.
El Chapo’s wife has no regrets. New Overlooked obituaries. Lorena Bobbitt speaks. So does Trump. And more.
The Reader Center talks to Motoko Rich about Japanese culture, her stress antidote and children’s novels.
Roger McNamee talks about “Zucked,” and Charles Finch discusses the season’s best thrillers.
Mary Pipher’s “Women Rowing North” celebrates the unacknowledged talents and wisdom of older women — a demographic increasingly in the limelight.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “Where Reasons End,” an unnamed narrator plumbs the nature of suffering — and the limits of language — in a dialogue with the child she mourns.
In the latest from Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, Shaun Tan and others, a boy and his dog head to the moon, a crab bakes cakes and a cat foils a bakery break-in.
Benjamin Dreyer sees language the way an epicure sees food. And he finds sloppiness everywhere he looks.
One common thread of J.D. Vance’s and Tara Westover’s memoirs is distrust of institutions. Yet it was institutions — the military in one case, college in the other — that saved them.
Reema Zaman, Sophia Shalmiyev and Pam Houston all seek solace in memoir for their pain.
A follow-up to “The Hate U Give.” An investigation into the Chernobyl disaster. True crime in Northern Ireland. And more.
Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.
New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).
An illustrated map of the authorial life.
Disappearances link the works of Claire Adam, Madhuri Vijay, Juliet Lapidos and James Charlesworth: missing persons, missing manuscripts and missed connections.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In Tom Barbash’s “The Dakota Winters,” a searching young man finds an unlikely companion in the former Beatle’s last year of life.
The Book Review’s past sheds light on the books of the present. This week: James Wood on the Chilean author’s legacy.
Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker detained by the Australian government, could not attend the festivities to accept the award.
The literary figure is the glowing subject of a group exhibition, curated by the New Yorker critic Hilton Als, that is part personal narrative, part study of his influence on contemporary artists.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The best-selling author talks about paying homage to the rappers she grew up listening to and the challenges of writing her first book after “The Hate U Give.”
In “Maid,” Stephanie Land describes what it’s like to be a single mother struggling to survive.
“It was never my intention to bring harm to any reader of this valued community,” Amelie Wen Zhao said. Critics found fault with her depiction of slavery.
Michiko Kakutani reviews “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first volume of Marlon James’s “Dark Star” trilogy. The novel is packed with dizzying references fused into something new and startling.
Jane Harper’s mysteries set in Australia have international appeal. Her latest, “The Lost Man,” hits American bookstores in February.
The author, most recently, of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” admires fantasy fiction that feels “wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords.”
An author unafraid to defy midcentury attitudes about her gender. “What is important is humanity,” she said, “not being a man or a woman.”
“Binge Mode” has attracted a cult following for its lively, in-depth analysis. It all started with “Game of Thrones.”
Their shop is the thinking person’s place to go after hitting the jackpot in Las Vegas (or New York).
Deborah E. Lipstadt’s “Antisemitism: Here and Now” charts the new guises of an enduring hatred.
“Go Ahead in the Rain,” by the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, is a love letter to the pioneering hip-hop group.
This is an excerpt from the original book review, “In the Shadow of the Big Boys.”
In “The Weight of a Piano,” Chris Cander follows the members of a family from Russia to California and traces the way music shadows their memories.
This collection of work by Collins, who died relatively unknown but has been championed in recent years, is a grab bag of letters, diary entries, short stories, plays and screenplays.
Unpublished photographs from the Federal Writers’ Project are on display at the Municipal Archives.
At the Angoulême International Comics Festival, there was a sense that the best days for comic books may be yet to come — in the French-speaking world, at least.
The British editor and writer, who died last week at 101, modeled a life of fierce, free-spirited independence.
In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform’s troubling rise to global behemoth.
Women and Latinx authors and illustrators made a strong showing in this year’s prestigious honors, as diversity in children’s books is becoming more evident.
In his new book, “Let Me Finish,” the former governor of New Jersey and Trump adviser saves his fire for Steve Bannon, and rues what might have been.
Roberto Bolaño’s coming-of-age tale “The Spirit of Science Fiction,” written around 1984, foreshadows the Chilean author’s epic 1998 breakthrough, “The Savage Detectives.”
Want to escape the real-life suspense novel we’re living in these days? Check out these six new whodunits.
Venturing outside during the winter? Who needs it!
Readers see a threat to artistic freedom in so-called morality clauses.
Edward Conlon wrote “Blue Blood” before retiring in 2011 to write a novel. He’s back on the job, but has traded in his handcuffs for a keyboard.
Andrew S. Curran talks about “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely,” his new book about the 18th-century French philosopher whose greatest works were discovered — as he intended — after his death.
Shapiro talks about her new best-selling memoir, and David Treuer discusses “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.”
The division published best-selling books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trevor Noah and more. Its closing is the latest move by Penguin Random House to streamline operations.
Fearing a victory for the far right in May elections for the European Parliament, intellectuals are urging a countermovement to dispel ‘a smoke screen for neo-fascism.’
This quirky A-to-Z primer by Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter features words that start with silent letters: C is for Czar, K is for Knight and so on.