“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.
With a new book about fantasies, the “Sex Education” star is hoping to help women tap into their most intimate desires — in and out of the bedroom.
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
En ‘El último sueño’, el director español, maestro del cine enigmático, ofrece un vistazo a su complicada relación con la creatividad y la mortalidad.
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
‘Chaos’ is an unruly word for a volatile time. The election is the least of it.
Plus: Sardinian furniture, a Jordan Casteel exhibition and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.
MoMA’s centenary exhibition of the artist revered for a groundbreaking book makes the case for his later work.
At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer’s mystique. But our critic dived deeper.
Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.
The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”
Accepting that is the first step toward making it more tolerable.
In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.
In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.
As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.
A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste.
A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.
As an in-demand lyricist, he won a shelf of awards for hits with Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and Dionne Warwick, as well as for the theme song for “Titanic.”
Three readers could pick the story written by Curtis Sittenfeld; another calls the experiment unfair. Also: Afghan women; athletes and crowds; pro-union workers.
Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.
In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.
The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it — doing any publicity — remains a challenge, she said.
In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.
There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.
In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.
Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.
The four actresses who played Lenù and Lila from adolescence to middle age discuss the end of the HBO series.
Try this short quiz about screen adaptations and the source material that inspired them.
Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”
In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party.
Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.
A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.
In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due.
In his new memoir, the CNN veteran opens up about faith, his midlife career upheaval and that time he got into homemade laundry detergent.
In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of her own.
He wrote prolifically about the music and played an important role in documenting its history, especially in his many years with the Institute of Jazz Studies.
Elizabeth Alexander and John Bayley loved their partners to the end.
In “Tell Me Everything,” Bob Burgess deepens his emotional connection with Lucy Barton as he defends a local man accused of killing his mother.
In Mason Coile’s new horror novel, “William,” an intelligent robot begins to lead its feckless creator to terrible places in the name of “freedom.”
William Cope Moyers told the world he had it all figured out after beating his addiction to crack cocaine. But then a dentist gave him an opioid pain killer.
Her pugnacious writing on women’s rights, gay rights and other issues helped turn her country into one of the most progressive in Europe.
The byline of Robert D. McFadden, who retired on Sunday, has been one of the most distinguished in the history of The Times. Here is a sampler of his artful obituaries.
She was a talented young poet and artist who was central to a fledgling cultural movement, but her life was shrouded by one tragedy after another.
His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.
The last few months have felt like a political thriller, so we asked you to tell us about your favorite books about politics. Here are a few of those books.
“Death at the Sign of the Rook” is the sixth novel in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie mystery series. What keeps her coming back?
Readers share their love of books in response to Margaret Renkl’s essay. Also: Taxes on the superrich; teaching the Bible; nurturing friendships.
An online writing community was set aflame this week after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, said it wouldn’t take a stance on the use of A.I.
For the justices, selling books remains one of the few ways to earn income outside the court.
Mary Jane never “sat right” with the award-winning scientist and memoirist Hope Jahren, so she wrote a novel about “the real redheaded one.”
Remembered for capturing ’80s downtown decadence, Jay McInerney’s iconic novel predicted the mood of New York City today.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby.
In “Making the Presidency,” Lindsay M. Chervinsky argues that John Adams established what it means to be America’s commander in chief.
The 174-unit Edificio Mascota in the Colonia Juárez neighborhood covers an entire city block.
James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” has been meaningful for “generations of queer people (including for me),” says the novelist, who argues for “less facile” literary conversations. His new book is “Small Rain.”
In his new novel, Matt Haig goes back to the place where he fell apart — Ibiza, Spain — and reclaims it.
The dispute started in the early days of the pandemic when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books.
A writer’s success today may be measured in film and television adaptations. Lisa Taddeo, whose book “Three Women” is now a Starz series, hates that.
Almost 20 years after Franklin Leonard created the Black List, which has helped little-known screenwriters break into Hollywood, it is expanding into fiction.
Buenos Aires is a literary city: Its residents like to boast about its many bookstores and independent publishers. Samanta Schweblin suggests which books and authors to start with.
By contrast, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court was more forthcoming in her memoir about her upbringing in Miami, Matt Damon and her rise to the court.
Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
The 20th-century Cold War was rife with geopolitical tension and inspired a lot of great espionage thrillers. This text puzzle challenges you to uncover the titles of a dozen novels set in and around that frosty era.
The Supreme Court justice’s memoir is deeply personal and full of hope, and highlights a fairy-tale marriage to her college boyfriend.
The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable.
In Coco Mellors’s second novel, “Blue Sisters,” three adult siblings reunite on the first anniversary of their sister’s death.
In Hiromi Kawakami’s new science fiction novel, Earth is a place of surveillance, isolation and dread. The characters (and clones) are doing their best to stay alive.
Readers discuss his community contributions and how he could boost rural America. Also: The Costco effect; all-out weddings; publishing’s problem.
Every lifelong reader knows why reading books is important. But how do you convey all that to a reluctant 12-year-old?
These 10 titles will help children of all ages navigate the anxiety, awkwardness and opportunities for growth that come with being the new kid.
In “The Life Impossible,” a 72-year-old widow tries to figure out what happened to a friend who disappeared in Ibiza.
Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent.
Essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates; memoirs by Alexei Navalny, Ina Garten and Cher; and dispatches from the mind of a Nobel laureate are among this season’s most anticipated offerings.
Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.
In “Empresses of Seventh Avenue,” the fashion writer Nancy MacDonell tells the story of the New York women who created modern style.
Our columnist on new books from T.J. Newman, Andrea Mara and A.E. Gauntlett.
Senna, who is mixed-race, has made a career satirizing the lives of characters like her. Her new novel takes elements from her history and twists them to the extreme.
The French novel that was adapted into “Vertigo”; Cameron Crowe’s nonfiction account of a year inside a public high school.
En un libro póstumo, la terapeuta sexual más conocida de Estados Unidos ofrece estrategias prácticas para ahuyentar la sensación de estar solo.
One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.
The itinerant man in Gayl Jones’s “The Unicorn Woman” discovers his beloved as a sideshow carnival attraction.
Hilary Sheinbaum, who wrote “The Dry Challenge,” spends her Sundays running, gossiping over tennis and not (really) drinking alcohol.
He pioneered the bookstore-as-superstore, a retail behemoth that dominated the industry before Amazon overtook it with its online reach.
Everybody loves the middle class. Nobody wants to be mid, or middling. “Middle” is a tricky word.
Discuss our September book club selection, “The Hypocrite,” by Jo Hamya, with the Book Review.
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Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These nine titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store.
In “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party,” the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: “What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadn’t occurred to anybody?”
Our columnist reviews August’s horror releases.
A complaint filed with the University of Washington raises questions about attribution in Robin DiAngelo’s Ph.D. thesis, which was published 20 years ago.
A state law limits sexual content in school libraries. But several publishing companies say it has led to a “regime of strict censorship” in school districts.
The subway isn't just buried in the bedrock of New York City — it's embedded within its fiction, too. These archival photographs and literary quotes transport you through time.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth’s latest novel to be translated into English, “If Only,” follows a decade-long affair between two married writers.
In Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, “Madwoman,” a woman is no longer able to keep the demons of her childhood out of her present.
The Utah mother of three wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death. Prosecutors say she mixed a lethal dose of fentanyl into his drink.
From a Judy Blume classic to mysteries both otherworldly and close to home, these 11 titles capture the nerve-racking first days of tweendom — and all the wonderful and terrible days that follow.
What the fiction author Curtis Sittenfeld learned in a writing competition race against the machine.
In “Never Saw Me Coming,” Tanya Smith tells of her life as a young financial criminal — and the harsh prison sentence that changed everything.
Our mystery columnist reviews books by Scott Phillips, Morgan Richter, Snowden Wright and Jamie Harrison.
The best-selling author’s estate has filed suit over “The Pitt,” an upcoming series, claiming that it is an unauthorized reboot of the hit hospital drama.
The world-famous stalls have plenty of vintage finds, as long as you know where to look and what to expect.
A new memoir by the onetime national security adviser shows how the former president’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy.
New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more.
In ‘The Joy of Connections,’ a book set to publish shortly after her death at 96, America’s best-known sex therapist offered practical strategies for anyone feeling lonely.
Print this version to keep track of what you’ve read and what you’d like to read.
The fifth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.
Some works that went on to become popular literary classics first got mixed or bad reviews. Try this short quiz to see if you recognize the novels as described by their original reviewers in The Times.
To walk past the bookcases in our family’s house is to make a different study of the history of time.
In “Colored Television,” by Danzy Senna, a struggling writer in a mixed-race family is seduced by the taste of luxury that comes with house-sitting.
For Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translating together extended naturally from their relationship as husband and wife. Now, it is their life’s work.
With verses that capture the raw emotions of the war and resonate deeply with the population, Ukrainian poets have emerged as some of the country’s most influential voices.
Though it downplays unflattering details, Katherine Bucknell’s big biography hails the 20th-century writer as an early advocate for the “chosen family.”
In “Where Tyranny Begins,” the journalist David Rohde reveals how former President Donald Trump tried to use the federal law enforcement agency to help himself and punish his foes.
For decades, he ran a school in the New Jersey wilderness that taught thousands of students how to survive and even thrive in the great outdoors.
She and her husband, LeRoi Jones, published works by their literary friends. After he left her and became Amiri Baraka, she found her own voice.
In “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause,” Benjamin Nathans takes stock of the generation of dissidents who helped loosen the bonds of tyranny in the Soviet Union.
Our columnist reviews books by Danica Nava, Courtney Milan, Zen Cho and Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters.
A biological anthropologist, she worked with colleagues to confirm for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.
As Democrats coalesce around their candidate, here are some of the words that define the party now.
In “Orange Blossom Trail,” the photographer Joshua Lutz and the author George Saunders pay tribute to the hard living across one stretch of American highway.
The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too.
“Impossible Creatures” has prompted comparisons to Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman, but action, not awe, is Katherine Rundell’s strong suit.
Faced with a roomful of bored students, Jacob Mitchell found a way to make adverbs fun. Now his classroom is global.
“The Last Samurai,” which has nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie of the same name, is as good as everyone says.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The vice president says she wants to prosecute the case against Trump, but we are still trying to figure out what kind of prosecutor she was.
The feminist thinker is celebrated as a prophet of empowerment and self-care. A new biography shows how she saw our future even more keenly.
Working in a Louisiana middle school has made Amanda Jones a culture warrior, a process she describes in “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”
El jugador de fútbol americano Michael Oher cree que sus primeros años de vida fueron tergiversados por la oscarizada película y el libro en el que se basó.
Shortly before a talk between a Jewish author and a liberal rabbi, a manager at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn barred the rabbi from participating, saying, “We don’t want a Zionist onstage.”
En “Imminent”, un exfuncionario de inteligencia que dirigió un programa otrora secreto comparte algunas de las cosas que sabe.