It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.
A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening.
Fifty years after “’Salem’s Lot,” Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.
Mimi Pond’s new graphic novel spins a cinematic romp out of the British aristocrats’ lives and loves: “You can’t make this stuff up.”
In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.”
Alexandra Alter, who covers publishing industry news and writes Books features for The Times, is always on the hunt for the next Harry Potter.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family.
Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 0 to 2.
She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.”
En “El último secreto” encontramos a Robert Langdon intentando rescatar a su amante, una neurocientífica que se encuentra en la mira de una organización misteriosa.
In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.
La aclamada escritora tiene un nuevo libro de memorias y una advertencia.
In “The Blood in Winter,” Jonathan Healey explores the many causes of the English Civil War.
A pairing of grapes and red onions makes a classic recipe feel especially current.
“Fresh Sets,” by Tembe Denton-Hurst, surveys some of the coolest contemporary designs from around the world.
Our columnist on three notable recent novels.
In her memoir, the whistle-blower explores the motives behind the leak that sent her to prison.
Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” delves into her struggle with an obsessive relationship in a new memoir.
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
“The Secret of Secrets” follows Robert Langdon as he tries to rescue his lover, a neuroscientist who is targeted by a mysterious organization after a breakthrough.
One of America’s finest memoirists, in photos and in prose, is at the peak of her powers in “Art Work”— and wondering if her pictures will survive.
In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.
From Fox News to Tubi to HarperCollins, here’s what is in the media empire that Rupert Murdoch built.
Try this short quiz about cartoons and comic strips that found new life as moving pictures.
Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about bands.
The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week.
In “All the Way to the River,” the best-selling writer dilutes a powerful story of love, addiction and loss with saccharine self-indulgence.
The popular science writer, whose new book is “Replaceable You,” has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more.
A longtime resident, he devoted his career to Historic Richmond Town and Sailors’ Snug Harbor, two of the borough’s most important cultural institutions.
The ones that stuck with us, and the ones we’ve left behind.
In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for “Two and a Half Men,” “Platoon” and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three great books that came out this summer.
Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.
Keira D’Amato retired from running at 24, but a decade later she was back and setting marathon records. A new memoir details her journey, which is still unfolding.
Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece.
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
Andrew Davies has spent more than four decades spinning novels from “Pride and Prejudice” to “House of Cards” into small-screen gold.
In his new novel, John Boyne challenges readers to examine the often ignored shadow of abuse.
In Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can’t stand it any longer.
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on book recommendation.
Watch for new books by Dan Brown, Thomas Pynchon, Mona Awad and more.
A new memoir finds the self-help icon locked in a destructive romantic relationship with her best friend, who relapsed while fighting terminal cancer.
In “Ghosted,” Alice Vernon explores the human urge to pierce the veil — and the many mediums, charlatans and true believers who made it an enduring industry.
“The Secret of Secrets,” the sixth installment in Dan Brown’s franchise about the symbologist Robert Langdon, brings the bookish hero back to a European capital to unravel a shocking conspiracy.
Echoing backward to the sixth century and forward to “The Lion King,” the play shows young people that stories are resilient against time and chaos.
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.
Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.
The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
The author of the Slough House novels — the latest one is “Clown Town” — has an eclectic stack on his nightstand.
Born dirt poor, Victoria Woodhull rose to heights of wealth and fame in the Gilded Age, reinventing herself along the way. A sprightly new biography recounts her unlikely story.
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
Check out books by Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Joe Hill, and revisit familiar worlds with Dan Brown, Mick Herron and Bolu Babalola.
Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.
Kiran Desai has returned with her most ambitious novel yet: “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” a sprawling romance that was all-consuming to complete.
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
Inspired by his parents’ travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father’s safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters.
Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now.
“The Brothers Size” at the Shed is speaking to a new generation of audiences. “Unfortunately, parts of the plays are still relevant,” McCraney said.
“Sympathy Tower Tokyo,” which was a best seller in Japan, is a social novel for the age of A.I.
The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century’s most famous agitators.
In “The Arrogant Ape,” the primatologist Christine Webb takes a hard look at our human superiority complex, and is not impressed.
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.’
Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.
Malle, de 39 años, sucede a Anna Wintour, una gigante de la moda. ‘Tiene que haber un cambio notable que haga que esto sea mío’, dijo Malle en una entrevista.
Try this short quiz to see how many opening lines from classic 20th-century books you recognize.
The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
Amie Barrodale’s dazzlingly weird novel, “Trip,” is about a mother and son adrift — in the afterlife and in the South Atlantic, respectively.
In the enchanting memoir “The Season” Helen Garner writes about her grandson’s Australian Rules football team — and so much more.
The ambitious but intimate sweep of Patrick Ryan’s new novel, “Buckeye,” recalls classic storytelling of another era.
In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
She forged an arts career in Houston while raising children who became accomplished entertainers: Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen and Tex Allen.
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over “Hamilton” and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden in September, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return.
At Japan Society, Emergences celebrates Mishima’s centennial. “One of the things that I absolutely love about Mishima is that I don’t absolutely love him,” said one participant.
In “The Call of the Honeyguide,” Rob Dunn explores how the natural and human worlds have helped each other through history — and can again.
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
Gene Pressman, the impresario behind the world-famous department store, would have done things differently.
“This Is My Body,” by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month’s notable horror releases.
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said.
Menos personas leen por placer. Recuperemos el hábito.
In February, the publication Marin Lately began satirizing the wealthy, idyllic swath of the Bay Area. The author has been a mystery, until now.
The acclaimed writer has a new memoir, and a warning.
The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.
In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman’s fragmented consciousness.
The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”
A look at design-world events, products and people.
Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit.
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs.
Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Hemos preguntado a expertos por libros que ayuden a comprender el trastorno narcisista de la personalidad.
But there is a place for the Bible, says the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is celebrating its centennial.
Our columnist on four notable novels.
His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.
Our critic A.O. Scott gazes into a well with Robert Frost.
We asked experts for books to help people understand narcissistic personality disorder.
In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.
Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.
Los familiares de Virginia Roberts Giuffre, quien falleció a principios de este año, sostienen que el libro resta importancia a los abusos que sufrió a manos de su marido.
A retreat from partisan politics, wokeness and optimism.
The annual financial disclosure reported no income as of yet from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s recently reported book deal.
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books a year.
Pon límites. Protege tu paz. Preocúpate menos por complacer al resto. El enfoque predominante (y el más vendido) del momento anima a concentrarse solo en uno mismo.
The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail.
Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.
“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart.
Austyn Wohlers’s novel, “Hothouse Bloom,” sets a solitary woman’s reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery.
Relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died earlier this year, contend that the book underplays the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband.
The Scandinavian country has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices.
Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history.
“Vulture,” by Phoebe Greenwood, follows a journalist’s downward spiral in Gaza.
Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn.
Tales of body-snatching aliens and apocalyptic super-flus by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and more double as time capsules of American fear.
He discovered and nurtured Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger and many other authors. He had, Mr. Lewis said, “the storytelling equivalent of perfect pitch.”
Life on the red planet? “Bosh and nonsense,” said one astronomer. But according to “The Martians,” plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.
A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.
La fantasía romántica está apuntalando el mercado de la ficción. Gracias a una generación que creció leyendo sobre un niño mago.
Spy fiction thrives on vermismilitude — shy are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foriegn characters?
Interested in espionage fiction, but don’t know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes.
A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.
Couples often hunt for poetic lines to use in their vows or décor, but many famous quotations about love attributed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein or Bob Marley were never said by them.
Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.
In his best-selling books, notably the “Natchez Burning” trilogy, he addressed what one reviewer called “the pervasive impact of past events.”
In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.
My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of “Little Women” that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn’t learn much from the story.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.
Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
Plus, why steamy fan fiction is topping the best-seller list.
“Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters,” says the prizewinning playwright behind “Stereophonic,” which is now up in London.
The best-selling horror and fantasy author recommends books about the terrors that lurk under the stairs.
La magnitud del descenso, un 40 por ciento entre 2003 y 2023, sorprendió a los investigadores, pues el estudio definía la lectura en términos amplios.
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.
Our critic says Regina Black’s “August Lane” is the best book she’s read this year.
“Born in Flames,” by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.
Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.