Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis, she went back to fight. Today, she is regarded as a hero in Israel.
Stephen Graham Jones’s horror novel offers a visceral take on the vampire legend.
Carmen Dell’Orefice, a cover girl since the 1940s, is the star of a new book. Plus, Levi’s and Barbour team up, and a podcaster who has a lot to say about clothes.
In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare.
In Guillermo del Toro’s new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created.
“Indignity,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph.
A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.
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Whether you’re a hard-core horror junkie or a scaredy-cat, he’s written something for you.
Over nearly seven decades Paddington Bear has enjoyed a lasting popularity. Now, he’s the star of a new musical.
He announced that “The Once and Future Riot,” which considers sectarian violence in India, would be his last. But he’s compelled to return to Gaza.
With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre’s hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here’s where to start.
Mark Z. Danielewski has returned with “Tom’s Crossing,” a 1,200-page western that is both more accessible than his earlier work and “the book of my life.”
The author Wole Soyinka, a vocal critic of President Trump, told the Nigerian press he did not attend a visa renewal interview requested by the State Department.
The Biden White House press secretary seems to be everywhere promoting her memoir, including an “absolute train wreck’’ of an interview with The New Yorker.
In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions.
Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.
Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three Stephen King movie adaptations and how they differ from their source material.
Tim Wu’s “The Age of Extraction” is a dispiriting guide to the way Silicon Valley has warped our markets and our democracy.
New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more.
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
Eliot Coleman, whose 1989 book inspired generations of gardeners, shared the lessons he has been teaching for the past 50 some years in his latest work.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel follows two teenagers determined to save a pair of ponies from slaughter.
In “Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta,” John Boessenecker probes the life of a dashing (but human) Wild West legend.
In a new essay collection, the novelist and critic offers her observations on artists, technology and a vanishing public commons.
In “Let My Country Awake,” Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage.
Oz Pearlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s A.T.M. code on air and entertained N.F.L. stars. Now the manosphere’s favorite magician wants more.
The opening line of a book is your first step into the story. See how many you remember from these notable works published in the 1980s.
The rock journalist turned writer turned filmmaker styles himself “The Uncool” in his new book.
The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”
His gritty novels have spawned a cottage industry and become a rallying point for fellow veterans. “Cry Havoc” is the latest.
In the transporting monograph “Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real,” the gifted young photographer traces a path from high fashion to his Georgia roots.
We explore Americans’ changing attitudes toward religion.
In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.
A plea for humanism and honesty, “The Rose Field” wraps up the fantastical saga set in motion with “His Dark Materials.”
‘Joyride’, su nuevo libro, empezó como una guía para aspirantes a periodistas, pero se convirtió en unas memorias en toda regla sobre su vida y su exitosa carrera.
Erica Ackerberg, a Times photo editor, calls the photographer Tyler Mitchell to chat about three photos from his new book, “Wish This Was Real.”
Our critic on four sizzling new releases.
Basketball and Dua Lipa are on the schedule during a New York jaunt with the Nobel laureate, whose intimate memoir finds her juggling activism and married life.
The new HBO series is a prequel to the two movies starring Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise, based on the 1986 Stephen King novel. Here’s a primer.
Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead.
“Giving myself freedom” has been Chris Kraus’s goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising “working-class saga.”
I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then came my niece.
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
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“Joyride,” her new book, started as a guide for aspiring journalists, but turned into a full-fledged memoir about her high-flying life and career.
Oz Pearlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s A.T.M. code on air and entertained N.F.L. stars. Now he wants more.
I named my daughter after Lyra, his intrepid protagonist. Now, in the final installment of the blockbuster fantasy saga, we get to see how she turned out.
In “Horror’s New Wave,” Jason Blum celebrates 15 years of unnerving audiences. His advice to publishers: “Sometimes it’s good to rely on your gut.”
In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade.
In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to live up to that promise.
In “Pride and Pleasure,” the biographer Amanda Vaill tells the story of these complex women with warmth, humor and insight.
The thriller writer Hank Phillippi Ryan recommends seemingly impossible, deeply satisfying whodunits.
In “Capturing Kahanamoku,” the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a beautiful sport.
“The Land of Sweet Forever” includes stories and essays by a writer who grappled with her Southern roots.
The tidying expert has just published a new book about travel’s impact on her life. She shares tips for how to encounter the world, and, maybe, leave it a little better after your visit.
In Nic Stone’s new book, “Boom Town,” a dancer at a strip club in Atlanta must search for her peers who have disappeared.
Joe Hill’s wild horror novel follows a group of friends and the mythic demon that haunts them for the rest of their lives.
Olivie Blake’s darkly comedic campus novel “Girl Dinner” explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
Our critic on four notable releases.
In “Winston and the Windsors,” the prolific biographer Andrew Morton, perhaps inevitably, tackles two British behemoths.
Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know.
Telling stories is how we make sense of life and what it means to be human.
The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures.
Joel Fagliano is a lead editor of NYT Games. He is the creator of the Mini Crossword.
The beloved British fantasy writer Philip Pullman concludes his Book of Dust trilogy with Lyra Belacqua’s final adventure.
Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever been.
If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.
“Every Day Is Sunday,” by a New York Times reporter, tracks the dominant influence of Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft and Roger Goodell.
In Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel, a young woman responds to her husband’s infidelities in creative ways.
Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history.
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.
In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.
A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.
Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along.
‘Nobody’s Girl’, el libro póstumo de Virginia Roberts Giuffre, no revela novedades políticas, pero podría romperte el corazón.
It’s October, which means it’s time for the master of horror to shine. Yet he’s become equally famous for several works of non-horror.
A documentary about the writer Jim Downey is streaming just as he can be seen in “One Battle After Another” and a new Tim Robinson series.
She turned recorded sessions with her therapist into a best-selling memoir, helping to normalize conversations around mental health in South Korea.
Caroline Palmer’s novel, “Workhorse,” emphasizes striving and grit in a debut set at a moment when glossy magazines were losing their cachet.
James Van Der Zee’s baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.
Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways.
The British spy show owes its sarcasm and wit to Mick Herron’s novels. Our critic A.O. Scott breaks down a few sentences from Herron’s latest, “Clown Town.”
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The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous “Nobody’s Girl” doesn’t break political news, but might break your heart.
In “Morbidly Curious,” the behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner takes a look at our addiction to the gory, the morbid and the grotesque.
The new and selected poems in Ada Limón’s “Startlement” reveal her to be garrulous, funny and heart-on-sleeve even when she’s being a little wicked.
In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience.
“I look for the subjective pulse of the author,” says the novelist, hailing Hamsun while sensing “cynicism” in Nabokov. “A Wooded Shore” is his 18th book.
Celebrities, authors and journalists filled the Waverly Inn on Tuesday for the type of party, one guest said, that keeps New York a “home to writers.”
Branching plots and dark humor animate “Eye of the Monkey,” set in an unnamed dystopian country.
The global activist gets candid in her new memoir. She spoke with us about struggling with panic attacks, finding her personal style and changing her mind about what marriage could be.
Universities are under attack. Is Hollywood part of the problem?
In “Three or More Is a Riot,” the Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb collects his writings on race and culture for The New Yorker.
The author of “Vampires of El Norte” and “The Possession of Alba Díaz” recommends books that dial up the darkness by turning back the clock.
El exesposo de la estrella del pop dice en su libro que desde que terminó la tutela de la cantante, “Se ha vuelto imposible fingir que todo va bien”.
Test your knowledge of European geography, history and travel with this short quiz about modern thrillers and crime novels. You may also discover a new book to read.
In “Devils’ Advocates,” the New York Times journalist Kenneth P. Vogel wades into the murky world of Washington lobbyists working for foreign interests.
Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.
Megha Majumdar’s new novel follows two disastrously entangled lives in a famine-ridden future.
“1929,” by the New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a tale of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the conscience.
Her ex-husband says in his book that since the pop star’s conservatorship ended, “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.”
Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, said a firm once owned by her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, spread misinformation about opioids. His campaign has threatened to sue her for defamation.
After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron.
“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.
The writer mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, those exchanges are being brought to life onscreen.
A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.
In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war.
Gabrielle Hamilton’s new memoir, “Next of Kin,” lacks the visceral shock and searing vision of her prior work.
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.
With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.
In “The Unveiling,” a tortured film location scout is haunted by a traumatic past and a supernatural present.
“Elbows Up!” is a collection of essays by prominent Canadians like Margaret Atwood that seeks to make something positive out of Canada’s identity angst.
“Spunk,” a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.
Hagfish is a small press focused on out-of-print and obscure books by women. But it’s flexible on all of those things.
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
The devil, Prada-clad or not, stays on the periphery of Caroline Palmer’s “Workhorse,” a novel about an ambitious assistant at a Vogue-like publication.
In “Splendid Liberators,” Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to spread freedom across the world.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak and challenging. But they’re also comical and deeply human.
“Minor Black Figures” encompasses race, class, religion and art, but at its heart it’s really about “what happens when you encounter a priest at a bar one hazy summer night in New York.”
In “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus,” Matthew Restall explores the seemingly immortal reputation of one of history’s most projected-on figures.
In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.
The author of the Seeds of America trilogy recommends books that run the gamut from Native American history to the civil rights movement.
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked.
County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.
El profesor Mark Bray se convirtió en blanco del odio de la derecha después del asesinato de Charlie Kirk. Cuando su información personal fue divulgada en línea, decidió irse a España; su vuelo fue cancelado abruptamente.
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El comité del premio afirmó que la obra del escritor húngaro “reafirma el poder del arte”.
The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”
In Jacqueline Harpman’s novel “Orlanda,” the repressed half of a woman’s soul jumps into the body of a man. Chaos ensues.
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.
The novelist anticipated our bizarre present. How does his latest book hold up in an age of eroding reality?
Sharing the plot of the 20th “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book had him cringing at the memory of ruining a birthday surprise. Also surprising: the O.J. Simpson book on his shelves.
Historian Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university. Turning Point USA accused of him belonging to antifa, which he denies.
Our columnist on notable new releases.
Whether you’re looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.
Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.
Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend.
To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.
The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start.
Vincenzo Latronico captura la manera en que su generación anhela tener un estilo de vida primoroso, y se burla de ello.
Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize.
The novelist Richard Osman says the stars of his best-selling series — a team of crime-solving retirees, who make their fifth appearance in “The Impossible Fortune” — are as complicated and flawed as anyone else.
“Last Rites,” a book detailing the final 15 years of the metal luminary’s life, is arriving at the same time as “No Escape From Now,” a documentary about a challenging period.
“Black Arms to Hold You Up,” the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.
In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.
In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.