With “The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir,” Priscilla Gilman, daughter of the theater critic Richard Gilman, joins the ranks of writers whose memoirs examine their famous, and flawed, fathers.
Natalie Haynes’s new novel, “Stone Blind,” continues her retellings of Greek legends, this one featuring the snake-haired Gorgon, long a symbol of female monstrosity.
In Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s “A Spell of Good Things,” the lives of a working-class boy and a wealthy young doctor converge to expose the precarity of the social order.
Gabriela Mistral, la primera latinoamericana en ganar un Nobel de Literatura, era considerada una poeta anquilosada. Una nueva generación la reivindica como ícono antisistema.
A dispute within AICA-USA, an art critics’ group, over diversity, reveals the widening rift between the dream of being a culture writer and shrinking job opportunities.
A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces.
In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.
In her new memoir, “B.F.F.,” Christie Tate looks at her history of failed platonic relationships and learns something about herself.
Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations.
In “Someone Else’s Shoes,” Jojo Moyes puts a fresh spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances.
In 15 collections, beginning in the early 1970s, she wrote of family, nature, loss and sometimes dogs.
Mark F. Pomerantz, who resigned from the Manhattan district attorney’s office last year, wrote that he had pursued a racketeering case against the former president.
In Jen Beagin’s “Big Swiss,” a sex therapist’s transcriptionist fantasizes about sleeping with a married female patient, who also happens to go to her dog park.
Some books grab you right from the author’s first sentence and stick with you long after the last page. Can you match these five opening lines to their titles?
This roundup includes titles by Fintan O’Toole, Xochitl Gonzalez and more.
Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they’re most excited to read in the next few months.
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.
It started with smirk and ended with a bang, and in between it changed the media universe.
The choreographer Troy Schumacher, the composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and the novelist Karen Russell teamed up, pushing one another to new places in their mediums.
In his first terms as president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expanded the scope of who could get published in the country, and who could access books. His return to the presidency comes with expectations, and hurdles.
Klassen had been influenced by the quietly revolutionary artist before Carle made a single book for children.
“Essex Dogs,” the first novel in a projected trilogy by the historian Dan Jones, imagines a hard-bitten band of mercenaries hired to invade France on behalf of their English king.
In a new memoir, a longtime casting director revels in memories of a bygone Hollywood, matching actors with the roles that made them stars.
A star of the Salt Lake City franchise details her separation from the church in a new memoir.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A selection of recently published books.
Essentials for a romantic night at home, sophisticated sweets and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Translating Kafka’s diaries revealed a writer even more alive than English-language readers previously knew.
“That toothsome meal arguably saved the Republic,” says the journalist, whose new book is “Dinner With the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” of Thomas Jefferson’s so-called Dinner Table Bargain. “The d...
When “Master Slave Husband Wife” came out last month, Ilyon Woo teamed up with her old friend Imani Perry for her first book event.
Readers discuss criticisms of Jeanine Cummins’s novel about a woman trying to flee Mexico. Also: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s antisemitic comments; Chinese child-rearing.
Kate Alice Marshall’s new novel, “What Lies in the Woods,” is elevated by unexpected plot twists, deep psychological perspicacity, and an endlessly interesting dance between past and present.
A salty historical romp, two deep dives into the entertainment industry, a handful of memoirs and Salman Rushdie’s much-anticipated new novel, “Victory City.”
His new novel is about a kingdom that is founded on pluralism but fails to live up to its ideals.
She was part of a vanguard of women designers who looked to the past to upend the cool modernism of the ’70s with a style that would become prominent in the ’80s.
In “Hell Bent,” Leigh Bardugo continues the fantastical journey she began in “Ninth House.”
Writing now as V, the creator of “The Vagina Monologues” tackles racism, colonialism and sexual violence in a raw and free-associative collection.
The departure of Madeline McIntosh, who has led the country’s largest book publisher since 2018, is the latest shake-up for the company during a turbulent period.
Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad audience.
After the success of that movie, he established a brand for writing Hollywood movies about inspiring episodes in Black history.
In “Maame,” a young woman strives for independence while carrying the weight of her family’s world.
An editor recommends old and new books.
I, for one, am still loyal to my childhood haunt.
Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.
The characters in “The Faraway World” seek connection in a disconnected world. Patricia Engel provides it in her own clever way.
In addition to great music and a magnificent Mardi Gras celebration, the Crescent City is the setting for many classic and award-winning novels. Can you guess the five books featured in this week’s quiz?
Three men were enlisted to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist in Brooklyn who has criticized Iran’s repression of women, the indictment says.
“The Sense of Wonder,” “Vintage Contemporaries” and “All the Beauty in the World” take on the many dramas of Gotham.
This week’s roundup includes titles from Miriam Toews, Ibram X. Kendi, Lawrence Wright’s and more.
A boy embroiders the moon, a girl makes coats for canines and a knitted-cape crusader saves the day.
Her new memoir — about her small-town coming-of-age, her multiple traumas and Hollywood escapades — is an attempt to set the record straight.
The joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, includes manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and other personal items.
The joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, includes manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and other personal items.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
These romance novels brim with coziness and cupcake bakeries.
The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too.
How a literary world uproar changed book publishing.
The acclaimed Nigerian British writer is resonating with American readers in a moment of national crisis. “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices,” he said.
“It touches me when people ask me to read a book because it’s special to them,” says the fiction writer, whose new book is the story collection “The Faraway World.” “It’s like being granted permission to peek inside their soul.”
He played with history and narrative techniques whether writing about 19th-century France or H.P. Lovecraft.
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I’m a reporter on The Times’s Styles desk. Here are the five things I’ve been loving as of late.
Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world rallying to his side.
In “Against the World,” the historian Tara Zahra examines the promise of liberal internationalism in its early days — and the resentments and suffering it continues to incite.
With “The Aftermath,” Philip Bump marshals a sea of statistics to debunk myths about that big, self-involved and endlessly discussed postwar generation.
Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.
Hygienic? No. But a way teenage girls built connections during a tumultuous life stage? Yes.
“After Sappho,” Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut novel, considers the lives of women artists and intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century.
“Children of the State” immerses the author Jeff Hobbs in the world of three American institutions. What he discovers is an open question.
In Kathryn Ma’s new novel, “The Chinese Groove,” an overly optimistic Chinese man migrates to America to find connection and success. It doesn’t go as planned.
In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding reimagines the history of a small mixed-race community’s devastating eviction from their homes.
In his last book, the iconoclastic anthropologist David Graeber considers evidence that maritime outlaws created utopian political communities on the island in the Indian Ocean.
Laurent Mauvignier’s “The Birthday Party” is a thriller with an intense focus on its characters’ interior worlds.
She was committed to codifying traditional Chinese cooking techniques when most Americans thought of Chinese food as dishes like chop suey and chow mein.
A new book by the company’s co-founder Uri Levine offers lessons on succeeding as an entrepreneur.
Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites.
This month, hundreds of Elin Hilderbrand’s fans flocked to her freezing cold island to dance, shop, do yoga and drink espresso martinis with their favorite author. Why?
Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.
Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” details a tortured night inside the head of a young economist.
Her 1988 book put an Algonquin wit back in circulation. She also wrote about Eleanor of Aquitaine, the suffragist Victoria Woodhull and Woody Allen.
It took the author a decade, and some luck, to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tinkers.” He’s back with another devastating tale, “This Other Eden.”
The essays in “Black and Female” recount the Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker’s life in the context of colonialism and its aftermaths.
Rachel Comey’s collaboration with The New York Review of Books is the latest flirtation between the fashion and literary worlds.
A popular novel, “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” presents a sympathetic portrait of the Russian leader, critics say, raising concerns that it might influence national policy toward the Ukraine war.
This year’s resolution: No more worrying about all the volumes I know I’ll never read.
In the postmodernist novel “The World and All That It Holds,” a Sephardi pharmacist falls in love with a Bosnian soldier as war breaks out in Sarajevo and beyond.
U.S.-born, she lived for a time in China and then fled as Japan invaded. She later broke academic ground in New York in the study of the Asian American diaspora.
Book lovers and entrepreneurs have built a community centered on literature in upstate New York.
In Jane Harper’s new book, “Exiles,” set in a small Australian town, a 39-year-old woman disappears from a wine festival — but her infant daughter is found in her stroller, unharmed.
This writer’s work kept readers — and moviegoers — on edge for decades. Who is it?
In “The Great Escape,” Saket Soni, a labor organizer, recounts the ordeal faced by hundreds of Indian workers who were lured to this country on false promises of green cards and sorely mistreated.
Our picks this week include Bob Woodward’s third book about the Trump administration.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
As she worked on her debut novel, the author of “The House in the Pines” found inspiration in a classroom.
“Roth’s steadfast commitment to the many privileges of male whiteness reliably repels me,” says Hemon, whose new novel is “The World and All That It Holds.” “I also dislike a lot of recent books, but I don’t wish to name them.”
An expatriate Briton, he followed Huckleberry Finn’s Mississippi, sailed to Alaska and explored eastern Montana. But, he said, he was not a “travel writer.”
Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel writer, has also enshrined his Massachusetts roots in his writing. Here are his recommendations for those who come to visit.
A psychiatrist and two social workers write about stigma and discrimination. Also: Presidential papers; gas stoves; transgender courage; writing and thinking.
His “stumpy fabric legs” and “little nubbin arms” may seem innocuous, but Pupkin — the star of Grady Hendrix’s new novel, “How to Sell a Haunted House” — is a killer.
Once considered radical, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole’s method of intuitive eating has become the cornerstone of the modern anti-diet movement.
Chris Whipple’s “The Fight of His Life” chronicles the administration in medias res.
John Hendrickson's memoir “Life on Delay” recounts his experience with this poorly understood neurological disorder, tracing an arc from frustration and isolation to acceptance and community.
A selection of recently published books.
An exhibition in Manhattan focuses on animated advertising — three-dimensional “movables” that were produced to sell products to consumers.
“Teller of the Unexpected,” an elegant new biography, sidesteps the ugly side of the children’s book author while capturing his grandiose, tragedy-specked life.
Three books consider the curious role of the contemporary courtier, who advises, protects and defends behind closed castle gates.
Felicia Kornbluh’s “A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life” is the story of two reproductive rights activists who lived on the same floor of the same New York building but, in an echo of larger patterns in the movement, never joined forces.
Henry Marsh’s “And Finally” tests the limits — and comforts — of knowledge.
In Edward J. Larson’s “American Inheritance,” the Pulitzer-winning historian attempts to insert reason into a passionate public conversation.
In “The Lost Year” and “Winterkill,” young people fight to expose secrets and lies during the Great Famine.
In “The Status Revolution,” Chuck Thompson argues that class signifiers have flipped, so that what was once luxurious is now out and what was once lowbrow is now in.
Michael R. Jackson discussed his Pulitzer and Tony-winning musical, which closed Sunday after a nine-month Broadway run.
In a new book, a wide range of voices weigh in on the notorious jail complex.
Fue un símbolo sexual para buena parte del mundo. Pero esa no es toda su historia, y ahora la está contando ella misma, en sus propias palabras.
The new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tracy Kidder chronicles the work of Dr. Jim O’Connell, who has dedicated his career to caring for homeless patients.
A Tennessee homemaker entered the online world of romance writers and it became, in her words, “an addiction.” Things went downhill from there.
Readers reject the notion that poetry died after “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot. Also: Assessing political polls; the myth of the American dream.
“Master Slave Husband Wife,” by Ilyon Woo, relates the daring escape from bondage in Georgia to freedom in the North by an enslaved couple disguised as a wealthy planter and his property.
Michael Schlossberg’s Sunday debut makes us read between the lines.
A millennial Hamlet haunted by Mummy’s vengeful ghost.
Hanif Kureishi lost use of his arms and legs. In tweets dictated to family members, he narrates the drama, and muses about writing and art, love and patience. He’s also quite funny.
In “Masters of the Lost Land,” Heriberto Araujo investigates a region where land and people are routinely sacrificed to greed and corruption.
In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los Angeles.
His career with The New York Times took him to Saigon and Moscow. He drew on that experience later to write several well-received books.
New releases this week include Joshua Prager’s "The Family Roe," a collection of essays by Zora Neale Hurston and more.
Investigations into two presidents’ handling of secret documents. Also: Hunter Biden and Prince Harry; the debt limit; psychiatric care; editing; libraries.
Test your questing skills with this puzzle that conceals the names of several classic and award-winning novels within a short text passage.
Many immigrants travel to new lands in hopes of a better life, but once they arrive they often feel small.
At 93, the memoirist Yuan-tsung Chen hopes that her recollections of China’s tumultuous past will help the country confront its historical wrongs — and avoid repeating them.
She was the universal sex symbol. But there is more to her story, and she’s finally telling it herself.
Now how’s that for a plot twist?
A.E. Stallings draws on traditional forms and themes to create poetry that gives heft and shape to the everyday world. “This Afterlife” offers an overview of her career to date.
A best-selling novelist and political activist in her native Italy, she was admired for her sensitive depictions of women and their predicaments. Recently rediscovered, her work has lost none of its subversive force.
A collection of debut novels — “In the Upper Country,” by Kai Thomas, “Moonrise Over New Jessup,” by Jamila Minnicks, and “Wade in the Water,” by Nyani Nkrumah — explore the historical experiences of Black North Americans.
He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views.
The Amazon thriller, starring Al Pacino, returns for Season 2 with its sights on the ultimate target: Hitler.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The presidential biographer was raised on a battlefield, so when he was dispirited by the state of the union, it made sense to look to Lincoln.
“A book that profoundly moves or thrills you makes you a more sensitive person, and therefore a better one,” says the 2014 Nobel laureate, whose new book is “Scene of the Crime.” “That is its moral function.”
A New York Times book critic had one day to read and review Prince Harry’s hotly anticipated memoir, which was kept under lock and key.
New York’s public libraries could be forced to cut their hours and programming. The City Council wants to protect their funding in the next budget battle.
The steady drumbeat of revelations that preceded the book’s release helped push early orders and initial sales, making “Spare,” on its first day, one of the best-selling hardcover books in recent memory.
Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his mother tongue a distinct literary identity.
Readers discuss the attention on the Sussexes as the prince’s memoir is published. Also: The Virginia school shooting; the Korean War memorial; bison; data storage.
A new adaptation of the novel “The Lying Life of Adults” features formidable female central characters and an Italy with distinct social classes.
An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions.
In the second installment of his “Dangerous Nation” trilogy, the veteran foreign policy critic argues for embracing the better angels of America’s imperialist nature.
A selection of recently published books.
Along with the juicy tidbits Prince Harry offers up in his new memoir, there is also a revealing look at how the royal family, and its staff, operate behind closed doors.