A former classmate contends that Ms. 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.
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.
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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.