The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman.
These culinary coming-of-age tales are movable feasts for the gluttonous listener.
Despite her husband's betrayal, she recreated herself as the writer she always was.
And one to read for fun.
In search of a New World answer to Narnia and Hogwarts.
Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.
This slim novella about one Irishman’s crisis of conscience during the Christmas season is the topic of our December book club discussion.
“The Troublemaker” is a brisk account of the life and work of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and democracy activist currently on trial for national security offenses.
A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the “troubling reality” of prejudice and the power of images to “undermine the very concept of difference.”
In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Our Evenings,” a sweeping story about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor.
Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance.
Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world.
Shelley Duvall, Quincy Jones, Faith Ringgold and Paul Auster are some of the greats who died this year.
Like Max and Madeline, this boy and girl keep faith with the intangible treasures of their imaginations.
A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their favorite books of the year.
A Culture writer takes stock of recent stage productions that depict newsrooms and reporters.
The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Plus: a stylist’s new fragrance line, a sophisticated stationery box and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Even in a world populated by devious wolves, beauty shines through occasionally.
“I’m like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that’s ended decades ago,” he says. “A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!” is his collection of comic fiction.
“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.
An eclectic list of works that influenced, intrigued and entertained our guests.
With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.
Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” celebrates the cuisine and community of his youth. Now he’s paying it forward.
David Bowie loved its couscous. Norman Reedus hung out there. It put avocado toast on the map. Thirty years later, and with a new book honoring it, Cafe Gitane is drawing a fresh crowd.
Writing for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.
The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”
A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages.
Joumana Khatib, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few books to readers looking for gifts for their loved ones.
Try this short quiz to see how many landmarks and locations around the city you remember from the great author’s works.
There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between supper and bedtime.
The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.
In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.
The Chinese leader is digging into the language of revolution, and a radical Russian novel, as he prepares for battle with Donald Trump.
The guidebook writer and television personality reflects on his cancer diagnosis, social media’s corrosive effect on tourism and the transformative power of travel.
In Ella Baxter’s novel “Woo Woo,” a feminist performance artist starts to question herself on the eve of a provocative solo exhibition.
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
“The Cure for Women”, de Lydia Reeder, cuenta la historia de la extraordinaria Mary Putnam Jacobi.
“A good gift is like a bridge between two people,” the creator of “Los Espookys” said. “It’s a way of communicating, ‘You are on my mind when you’re not in front of me.’”
Joining a pantheon of management thinkers, he embraced a humanistic path for business and foresaw outsourcing, remote work and a gig economy.
He devoted his career to guarding the legacy of the philosopher known for her writings on totalitarianism and “the banality of evil.”
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs discuss highlights from their year in books.
Ruth Ware, the author of “The Woman in Cabin 10,” recommends locked-room mysteries and psychological horrors by Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Andy Weir and more.
The movie scenes, TV episodes, song lyrics and other moments that reporters, critics, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
The protagonists of “A Day With Mousse,” “Little Shrew” and “Lone Wolf Goes to School” feel happiest on their own.
Three new books explore the fraught relationships between tech companies and the U.S. government through close looks at Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Elon Musk’s X.
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America — then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.
The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets.
In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other.
Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.”
“You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.
New festive stories center the many ways people celebrate the season, and each other.
Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.
Curl up with these transporting reads.
Charles Onana and his publisher were fined for passages in a book that were found to have violated a French law making it illegal to deny an officially recognized genocide.
The poet left a long visual record of a career in the public sphere.
Like many Americans of his background, Luigi Mangione’s bookish aspirations were defined by what everybody else was reading, or thought they should be reading.
The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her vision and herself.
A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.
In “The Rest Is Memory,” Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.
The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is “the thrill of a life,” she said.
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
Figuras como Andrew Huberman, Tim Urban y el Unabomber aparecen en publicaciones compartidas por cuentas que parecen pertenecer a Luigi Mangione, el sospechoso detenido el lunes.
The first-ever screen adaptation will be released this week — a feat even the author didn’t think possible. We traveled to the set in Colombia to see how it was done.
Figures like Andrew Huberman, Tim Urban and the Unabomber feature in posts shared by accounts that appear to belong to the man arrested on Monday.
Celebrate the literature of this festive month with with a five-question quiz that comes with its own reading list.
The fine artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers on climate change, A.I. and the idea that maybe everything is pretty much our fault.
Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.
The author keeps a list on her phone of gift ideas. “During the year, if someone close to me mentioned something that they really like or really want, I put a note in right then.”
Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters.
In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
Lucy Foley, the author of “The Guest List,” recommends books about the most intimate of dramas, including twisty mysteries and all-time favorites like “Rebecca” and “Gone Girl.”
A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story.
What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?
As critics issue their year-end lists, we want to know your personal favorites of 2024.
Fabienne Josaphat’s novel “Kingdom of No Tomorrow” sets a love triangle amid late-1960s Oakland and Chicago.
Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America’s favorite side hustle: landlording.
We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.
A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.
Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.
Two columnists sit down to discuss two books that crystallize this period in America.
The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.
Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.
A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.
Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.
You’ve read our list of the year’s best fiction and nonfiction. Now start listening to them.
His voice carried weight on the influential back page and as the writer of many “Man of the Year” cover articles. As a memoirist he chronicled his heart attacks.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The print sales over the Thanksgiving weekend nearly matched the first week of Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land.” And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.
Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.
Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush and poetic, and holy moly is it eerie.
Here are the novels our columnist loved most.
“It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Her new book is “The Serviceberry.”
Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.
El equipo de The New York Times Book Review elige las obras de ficción y no ficción más destacadas del año.
Hegseth, too, wants to fight the “enemy within.”
Removing books from schools robs us of important opportunities to understand each other, and ourselves.
Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”
A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.
An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.
It’s been 20 years since Daniel Jones started Modern Love as a weekly column in The New York Times. Today, he shares what the job has taught him about love.
These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.
The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.
One of the chef and author’s favorite gifts is homemade apricot jam, which she makes “specifically to be able to share it with people.”
A tome on the totality of wine from a New York sommelier, a tale of six months in a French village and more books for the wine lovers in your life.
A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.
The author, who owns the small independent stations in Bangor, said that the decision was prompted by a desire to get his business affairs in order.
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
The New York Times Book Review’s editor, Gilbert Cruz, shares three highlights from the 10 best books of 2024.
The writer and performer shares her tips and explains why it’s never worth pretending to be normal.
The writer and performer Julia Fox gives a tutorial on being yourself and finding your fellow freaks.
The city has always been a haven for iconoclasts, but contemporary talents in virtually every field are making the metropolis more unique than ever before.
In Weike Wang’s novel “Rental House,” a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.
In “Gabriel’s Moon,” William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.
In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.
The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.
In an interview, Mr. Allen describes the years he spent collaborating with Mr. Brickman, a friend, on beloved movies. Mr. Brickman died on Friday.
Novels for young adults often become films for young adults. Test yourself on these five books and their adaptations with this short quiz.
The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.
Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.
Jane Austen, one of the most beloved novelists in the English language, must have had some sympathy for a girl who liked a good book.
The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo’s novel “Apartment Women” imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.
The duo won an Oscar for “Annie Hall.” Mr. Brickman went on to write Broadway shows, including “Jersey Boys,” and make movies of his own.
In that 1970 book and others, he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,” examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.
Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food.
A former Nixon official (and later a novelist), he led an investigation in which a shadowy Watergate figure squirmed when asked if he had been an anonymous whistle blower.
A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.
The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity.
Our columnist on some recent favorites.
Julia Armfield’s “Private Rites” is a contemporary reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy, set in a flooded London.
Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed — published after Ms. Joplin’s death.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
First Book’s work is an antidote to book bans. It makes diverse books more accessible to students, teachers and libraries.
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a profound part of her readers’ lives.
Some professionals in the food writing business are spent before Turkey Day arrives. Others feel they can finally cook for themselves.
“If I come across ‘Dad’ or ‘Mommy,’ I’m out,” says the former U.S. poet laureate. “‘Grandma’ gets a pass.” His new collection is “Water, Water.”
Along with his fellow filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, he revolutionized film comedy with a straight-faced, fast-paced style of parody.
An outspoken French-Algerian novelist returned to his homeland and was promptly taken into custody at age 75.
Readers offer environmental and business reasons to support E.V.s. Also: Women in the military; the Amsterdam pogrom; resentment of migrants; true crime.
“The New India,” by Rahul Bhatia, combines personal history and investigative journalism to account for his country’s turn to militant Hindu nationalism.