“American Men,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, and “Who Needs Friends,” by Andrew McCarthy, report from the front lines of the epidemic of male loneliness.
In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators.
How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.
“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos.
Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.
In Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “Almost Life,” a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs.
Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
Try this short quiz on comic-book characters who made the leap to television.
Donald Trump’s insults alway say more about him than the people he is trying to mock.
A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life.
Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.
In “Playmakers,” Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)
Autores superventas y galardonados nos explicaron por qué tener un perro es importante para su escritura.
En su exitoso libro ‘El arte sueco de ordenar antes de morir’, Margareta Magnusson animaba a los lectores a realizar una limpieza profunda ante una posible partida. La autora ha muerto a los 91 años.
“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?
Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles’s anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today.
The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling, is on pace to be the company’s highest-grossing domestic film.
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.
In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.
Our critic on three terrific new mysteries and a gem-filled story collection.
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Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme.
On the staff of The New Yorker for more than 60 years, he wrote about Duchamp, Rauschenberg and many others. His books include “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”
Plus, a buzzy new book was just canceled over A.I. allegations.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.
Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin’s iconic paperback series.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.
A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.
The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone’s favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.
“I have written six books and counting just because I was very annoyed at how a character was written in a video game,” she says. Her “disgusting” new novel is “Wolf Worm.”
“Paradiso 17,” by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré.
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.
Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination.
En sus galardonados libros, aportó una visión desde dentro a las historias sobre la indiferencia de la élite de su país y el sufrimiento silencioso de las clases más desfavorecidas.
“The other Peruvian” (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and the quiet suffering of the classes underneath.
During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis.
His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
In “Chain of Ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.
In a new book, Caroline Tracey explores the mysteries and beauty of salt lakes.
Try this short quiz on some of Ireland’s most memorable verses from its celebrated poets.
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Sisters in Yellow” follows a group of dreaming and scheming young women through society’s margins.
What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.
In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.
She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
Charlotte Wood’s “The Natural Way of Things” conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.
Her best-selling book on the subject encouraged the world to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks process and “Planet of the Apes.”
Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.
From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.
Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, “Night Night Fawn,” approaches a closed-minded matriarch with compassion, even at her child’s expense.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
A 1967 correspondence led Cat Sebastian to imagine a contemporary scenario in which two sci-fi actors find more than screen chemistry.
The best-selling author Lisa Unger recommends her favorite dark and stormy thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and more.
A writer and critic, Mr. Koch struggled for years to shepherd his friend Peter Hujar’s underappreciated, Bohemian-world artwork to posthumous glory.
His best-known work, “The Wall Jumper,” proved prescient in its contention that the country would remain split even after reunification.
In “View from the East Wing,” the former first lady will recount her time in the White House and share her views on the 2024 presidential race.
He moved easily and prolifically through science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, crime and historical fiction. His book “The Terror” was made into a cable TV series.
In an affecting new memoir, Tom Junod, a prizewinning magazine writer, grapples with unsettling discoveries about his larger-than-life dad.
From his perch in Hawaii, the hero of Patricia Finn’s first novel, “The Golden Boy,” revisits his dark past in rural Ontario.
En la televisión, el cine y las novelas populares, el contenido sexual es más abundante que nunca. ¿Qué pasa cuando nuestras pantallas son más ardientes que nuestros dormitorios?
In Andrew Martin’s keenly observed new novel, a group of friends navigate a society reshaped by the pandemic.
“Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!” is a familiar reminder that growing up in showbiz can lead to awards and adulation, but also to heartache.
Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex,” tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India.
“Nonesuch,” the new novel by Francis Spufford, conjures a plot laced with magic to change the course of history.
Greg Greeley, who once ran Amazon’s books and media business, will succeed Jonathan Karp as chief executive at one of the largest book publishers in the U.S.
Try this short quiz on very long books.
“Gunk,” a novel by Saba Sams, follows a woman through the trials and tenuous jobs of young adulthood.
In “Whidbey,” three women reckon with the aftermath of sexual assault.
La escritora chilena recibió el galardón en 1945 por tres sonetos publicados inicialmente en Chile en 1922.
I imagine the birds I see are the family members I’ve lost.
Mark Oppenheimer had many conversations with his subject for his new book. Then the relationship took a turn.
The 1,000th Connections puzzle is out today. Wyna Liu, the writer behind the game, knows you have thoughts.
Bill Lawrence, the man behind comedies-with-heart like “Scrubs” and “Ted Lasso,” is in the midst of a career renaissance. He has five shows on the air now, including “Rooster” with Steve Carell.
A newly released collection of the Australian master’s short fiction shows her sympathy, her virtuosity and her ear.
In a wide-ranging career, he was a Boston lawyer, a Hollywood screenwriter and a Swiss currency trader.
His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.
Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.
Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.
Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, “America’s Founding Son,” feels so relevant.
Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.
One of the first female war correspondents, she covered a dozen major conflicts during a career that spanned more than six decades.
She was best known for her trip around the world in 1889, which she completed in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes.
A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.
She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, “Excuse My Dust.”
Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.
Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.
An iconoclastic journalist, she was known for her war coverage and her aggressive, revealing interviews with the powerful.
She was recognized in 1945 for three “Soñetos de la Muerte” (“Sonnets of Death”), which were first published in Chile in 1922.
She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements.
She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.
A star writer from the heyday of magazines reveals the family secret behind his award-winning stories.
Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Arsenio Hall; essays from David Sedaris and Jesmyn Ward; plus histories, true crime, biographies and more.
New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.
In “Little Monk Writes Rain,” “Yulu’s Linen” and “Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise,” spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own.
In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.
Eleven of Toni Morrison’s novels are being reissued by her publisher, and there’s a new book of criticism about her work. Parul Sehgal, a critic at large for The New York Times, joined Wesley Morris and Sasha Weiss to talk about Ms. Morrison’s powerful prose and whether her sanctification has its own risks.
Parul Sehgal, a critic at large for The New York Times, talked with Wesley Morris about her first encounter with Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eye.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A former classmate contends that Amy Griffin’s story of being sexually abused, described in “The Tell,” was based on assaults the classmate herself suffered.
In “Chosen Land,” Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.
In “Days of Love and Rage,” Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war in Syria.
Our columnist on the month’s best new books.
Waiting for readers of Diana Gabaldon’s series to see the episode is “exciting and nerve-racking,” says its star, who wrote five books during its 12-year run.
Las inquietantes imágenes publicadas en los archivos Epstein que muestran pasajes de la infame novela de Nabokov escritos sobre cuerpos ejemplifican un mundo en el que las mujeres y las niñas son tratadas como objetos de consumo.
The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s new novel, “Lake Effect,” is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: “Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence.”
The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.
In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.
A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.
Ivana Sajko’s novel “Every Time We Say Goodbye” explores personal and political crises in lengthy, lyrical sentences.
Un profesor del Hunter College, en Nueva York, ha creado una de las colecciones especiales de literatura rusa de contrabando más grandes del mundo.
En “You With the Sad Eyes”, la actriz transforma unos cuadernos que planeaba destruir en un relato mordaz y crudo sobre abuso infantil y vivir con enfermedad crónica.
In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.
Disturbing images released in the Epstein files showing passages from Nabokov’s infamous novel written on bodies exemplify a world where women and girls are treated as objects for consumption.
I thought my art had to be protected from the real world, but that ended up being unrealistic.
Steven Grosz’s books show a new generation the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
In “Muv,” the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.
En ‘El arte perdido de educar’, Michaeleen Doucleff prometió simplificar la vida familiar. En su nuevo libro, ‘Dopamine Kids’, plantea un reto mayor: ¿pueden los padres renunciar a sus propios vicios y volver a lo esencial?
Sari Botton started a Substack about getting older after finding employers were reluctant to hire her, a middle-aged woman. With more than 70,000 subscribers, she has clearly struck a nerve.
In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel “Repetition,” a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.
In “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts,” a therapist’s home turns into a nightmare manifestation of her sadness and grief.
Test your knowledge of literature and geography with this short quiz.
“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.