In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life.
Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control, brainwashing and the outer limits of influence.
In Ariel Courage’s novel, “Bad Nature,” a powerful career woman sets out on a road trip intending to kill her father.
Alex Dimitrov’s fifth collection, “Ecstasy,” offers a rollicking paean to pleasure.
In “Sad Tiger,” the French author Neige Sinno analyzes her memories of being abused as a child, alongside literature about incest and pedophilia.
In “The Usual Desire to Kill,” Camilla Barnes finds the humor in a daughter’s aggravating visits to her aging parents at their run-down home in rural France.
As Americans scrutinize the accidental leak of a high-level U.S. group chat, several books detail other mishaps in the annals of global conflict.
Suddenly Liz Moore blazed, comet-like, onto small screens and best-seller lists. But her writing career has been a slow burn.
Even though it’s been more than a century since some of these novels roared onto the literary scene, they all remain classics of the era. Try this short quiz to see how many you remember.
A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs.
A posthumous Joan Didion book, Emily Henry’s latest romance novel, Tina Knowles’s memoir and more.
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.
In “Heartwood,” when an experienced hiker named Valerie vanishes, other women must crack the case.
In “The Power of Parting,” Eamon Dolan makes a persuasive case for eliminating contact with family members whose abusive behavior can’t be redeemed.
In Michèle Gerber Klein’s new biography, “Surreal,” Gala Dalí gets her due.
The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here’s where to start.
A Booker-winning novel; a rocking essay collection.
He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution.
As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.
“The Snares,” by Rav Grewal-Kök, examines the perils and moral quandaries of clandestine service.
Our columnist reviews this month’s releases.
This Korean novel by the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature turns a pet-sitting mission into a haunting reflection on grief and memory.
The actress Candy Clark documented her unlikely journey through 1970s Hollywood in a series of Polaroids, now published in a memoir.
A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends.
In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Playworld,” Adam Ross’s off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s.
The author of “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” recommends fantastical tales grounded in real history.
Our critic on the month’s best releases.
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves?
Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote.
The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about tuberculosis. Listen to the conversation.
Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work through grief.
“I’ve had to set that limiting belief aside,” she says, “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an interloper.” Her new guidebook is called “Dear Writer.”
Our critic on the month’s best new releases.
She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her characters online in fan fiction.
The author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California.
T.J. Byrnes, a low-key bar in the financial district of Manhattan, has survived Sept. 11, Hurricane Sandy and Covid lockdowns. Can it survive becoming cool?
The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing.
The country musician talks about yearning as a theme in his life and songs, and why he’s letting go of his mask for his Broadway debut.
A new book by the journalist Brian Goldstone puts a spotlight on people who have jobs but no homes, whose struggles remain largely invisible.
A quiz that delivers reading recommendations helps bookworms find their next reads.
The ruling is a victory for the publishers and free speech advocates who challenged the law, but the judge’s decision is far from final.
A jurist in England scolded two members of the British Royal Air Force who damaged the bear, saying their actions “lacked respect and integrity.”
Neuroscientists, psychologists and other experts share the titles they recommend most.
Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a Murder” chronicles a killing, featuring sex, dentures and tightrope walkers.
A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment conspiracy theories.
Boris Fishman’s new book follows a family that leaves a war-torn country for a shot at asylum in the United States.
Los expertos afirman que el asombro es una emoción humana esencial y un bálsamo para las mentes turbulentas.
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.
A winner of top awards in his country, he drew the attention of European and American critics. The prime minister said he “made us see Norway and the world in new ways.”
Try this quiz on beloved literature that was memorably adapted for the screen.
Richard D. Kahlenberg has long argued for colleges to weigh socioeconomic status to promote diversity. His position is more relevant than ever.
The city’s varied discontents skip into the spotlight in Zink’s new novel, “Sister Europe.”
Annika Norlin’s novel, “The Colony,” follows a group of misfits in a bucolic forest. The only thing its members share is a dark past.
Sara Gran — whose 2003 novel of demonic possession, “Come Closer,” is a cult favorite — recommends her favorites.
Emma Pattee’s debut novel, “Tilt,” takes place in the 24 hours after “the really big one” devastates the Pacific Northwest.
David Sheff’s new biography convincingly argues for John Lennon’s widow as a feminist, activist, avant-garde artist and world-class sass.
The crew in Colum McCann’s new book makes complex repairs deep in the ocean. Human bonds prove harder to mend.
When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.
Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures.
Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be more downsides than we think.
He and his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books, most recently one about presidential love letters, “Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?”
A memoir of Greenwich Village; an Argentine story collection.
Valentino Deng also has roots in Africa, but he exudes the empathy that Musk scorns.
The clinical psychologist explains the demands of “emotionally immature” parents, the impact it has on their children and the freedom of saying “no.”
In the novel “Counting Backwards,” by Binnie Kirshenbaum, an artist grieves the loss of her husband to Lewy body disease.
Laura Delano se alejó de los tratamientos psicotrópicos que definieron parte de su juventud. Ahora espera crear una hoja de ruta que otros puedan seguir. Los profesionales consideran los riesgos.
Judge Selya enlivened his writing with original vocabulary and colorful figures of speech. “Selyaisms” included asseverate, crapulous and sockdolager.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has faced intense scrutiny since joining the court, says she will make the judicial process less of a “mystery” for readers.
Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths.
The author of “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” recommends books that weave the fantastical into mystery, horror, romance and more.
An inspired new book from veteran comedians cautions novices to err on the side of caution. But our comedy critic makes the case for taking a big swing.
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness.
Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the Revolutionary War era with a timely new novel for young readers.
Viewers thrilled to the scheming Thomas Cromwell’s rise. Now, in the new TV series “The Mirror and the Light,” comes the fall.
Hisham Matar won the fiction prize, and Sandra Cisneros received the lifetime achievement award.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Hay una delgada línea entre las conjeturas razonables y la invención descabellada. La imaginación estadounidense a menudo gravita hacia el lado más extremo.
The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy.
A founding editor of People, he also served as editor in chief of Little, Brown and produced films. But his public image was defined by a 1952 story for Life.
In a new nonfiction book, the Y.A. novelist describes the disease as a window into “the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans.”
Working to cover rent and insurance, “I turned out a two-page story every three months,” she says. “At that rate a novel would take 25 years.” She lives in Germany, the setting of her sixth, “Sister Europe.”
In “Unshrunk,” Laura Delano chronicles her struggles with mental illness — and the endless parade of pills meant to treat it.
Writing a memoir was no laughing matter for Phil Hanley. Narrating the audiobook took 16 sessions, 64 hours and a supportive audience.
In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection.
In a new book, the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster considers how the air we share connects us to others.
In “The Haunting of Room 904,” a woman who can commune with spirits is pulled into a sweeping conspiracy tied to a Native American massacre.
Why the newly released documents won’t put out the fire.
His “Be Your Own House Plant Expert” and other best-selling manuals were a fixture of British life for half a century. Among his many fans was Margaret Thatcher.
Su madre, Gisèle, fue el centro de un juicio que conmovió a Francia y la convirtió en un ícono feminista. Pero dejó a Caroline Darian con sus propios dolores y sospechas sin respuesta.
“Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original “Hunger Games” novels.
In “Changing My Mind,” the novelist Julian Barnes presents an argument for the joys of flexibility.
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities.
In “Abundance,” Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump’s return to power.
In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s Tanzania.
Her mother, Gisèle, was at the center of a trial that gripped France and made her a feminist icon. But it left Caroline Darian with her own pains and suspicions unanswered.
The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.
The magazine received concerns about the writer’s conduct at its centennial celebration at a star-studded party in Manhattan.
In the memoir “Firstborn,” Lauren Christensen writes about losing the daughter she was expecting.
See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish authors you can find in this short scene — and build a reading list along the way.
Laura Delano walked away from the treatments that defined her teens and 20s. Now, she’s hoping to create a road map for others to follow.
The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable of bridging ideological divides.”
Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, cynical mind.
A new cultural hub spurs curiosity and cultivates transformation in a place designed for transactions — the mall at the World Trade Center.
Our columnist on the month’s best releases.
Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.
In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.
In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town’s suppressed drama.
In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.
It could be that keeping a diary — “keep” being the operative word — is how we stay true to ourselves, even the embarrassing bits.
In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.
“Sunrise on the Reaping” further expands the world of Panem, focusing on Haymitch Abernathy’s story.
In “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America’s sins.
Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.
For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he.
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.
An editor from the heyday of glossy magazines dishes about Anna Wintour and recounts his long-running feud with Donald Trump.
The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.
In her new book, “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the comedian dishes on life lessons, breakups and being denied a tryst with Andrew Cuomo.
When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.
Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.
His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.
What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
Watch for a new “Hunger Games” prequel; a quirky romance from Emily Henry; novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ocean Vuong; and more.
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.
Davey Wreden, the writer of mind-bending video games, moves away from self-conscious cleverness in a tea shop simulator.
The Grammy-winning musician discusses her new solo album and what to do in a relationship when it feels like there’s nothing left to say.
Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.
Fernando A. Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast.
“Careless People”, las memorias de una antigua ejecutiva de Facebook, es un retrato detallado y poco favorecedor de una de las empresas más poderosas del mundo.
“The Next One Is for You” chronicles the effects of the Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.
When composers publish their scores or prepare them for performance, they need an editor — a role that rarely enjoys the classical music limelight.
The streamer keeps mounting lavish adaptations of beloved novels — and making them all feel like just more Netflix.
In Lawrence Wright’s new thriller, an Arab American F.B.I. agent and an Israeli cop take on an intractable conflict.
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood.