After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
A study of human fatigue; a cranky travel memoir.
Democrats will have no shot at containing Trump if they don’t first understand why voters turn to him.
When we lose things, it’s tempting to think we need to keep better track of them, to hold on to stuff more tightly. What if the opposite is true?
The words of war and the war of words.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice.
The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.
In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin.
Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital.
The great author and illustrator was born on Feb. 22, 1925. Gilbert Cruz talks with the Book Review’s Sadie Stein about his distinctive talent and sensibility.
America has changed and so has its faith.
Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks.
He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Louise Riggio is downsizing her Manhattan apartment, which means selling more than 30 works by artists including Mondrian, Magritte and Picasso.
In print, online and on the radio, he parlayed a savant’s mastery of his city’s restaurant menus and a love of the spotlight into a career that spanned five decades.
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
Books by Casey McQuiston, Alexis Daria and more offer emotional tales of love and forgiveness with plenty of heat.
He took a dry topic and made it entertaining, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the way cities are built.
A provocative new book asks what we owe one another in a heating world.
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York.
Meet the writer who helped turn a book into a cultural phenomenon.
Kelsey McKinney, author of the new book “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” talks about the joys and problems gossiping has brought to her relationships.
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world.
Hear songs from Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name” by ESG Public Image Ltd., the Floaters and more.
Certain books maintain an evergreen popularity long after they have been published. See if you can uncover the baker’s dozen of 20th-century classics concealed in this short scene — and build a reading list along the way.
In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ideals and real life.
In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left behind.
Set in a rapidly warming Montana valley, a new novel spans 50 years of a rocky friendship.
The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book.
A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field.
Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees the value in keeping some things to herself.
In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.
Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre.
Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.
Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his raunchy, stylish, intimate new memoir, “The Loves of My Life.”
Mail and phone calls may be archaic, but they have lessons for us on how to be better communicators.
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.
The heroine of Roisín O’Donnell’s novel “Nesting” is a young mother desperate to escape her husband’s physical and emotional control.
How the novel became an Oscar-nominated film.
A new book by Moshtari Hilal takes on the taboo subject of ugliness.
Taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos have just been published in “A Fearless Eye.”
A forgetful bear, a lovesick boy and, yes, George Washington share their views from the bridge.
The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next.
The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the town so romantic?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
It wasn’t invented as a survival strategy — but as “James” shows, that idea does make for a very good story.
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
Whether you’re in the mood for another Jane Austen adaptation, a British rom-com or a love story with a fabulous older heroine, we’ve got you covered.
The creator of Bridget Jones, who grew up on Jane Austen and Jackie Collins, has no patience for “snobbery about escapist fiction.”
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on recommendation.
The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.
A new book by the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin plumbs the dubious history of the presidential pardon.
The writer is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more complicated.
In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with revolutionary implications.
“Saturday Night Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s impresario of funny.
The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.
Readers discuss the administration and the media. Also: Acts of resistance; Joan Didion’s diary; cuts in arts funding; competition in tech.
The Pulitzer-prize winning writer and essayist talks about his love of art and how he reconciles two challenging roles.
The director James Mangold discusses the things we may never understand about the folk legend.
The language that chefs use says as much about us as it does about them.
On her podcast, “Normal Gossip,” the writer Kelsey McKinney relishes everyday drama. In a new book, she explores our cultural fascination with other people’s lives.
The writer Kelsey McKinney tries to wrestle with our guiltiest pleasure.
In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement.
John Broderick’s “The Pilgrimage” plumbs the rich interior lives of a devout gay man and his wife, without judgment.
In the psychological thriller “Casualties of Truth,” by Lauren Francis-Sharma, a woman and a country are both forced to face the harrowing violence that has shaped them.
In “Talk to Me,” Rich Benjamin investigates his family’s harrowing past to better understand the troubles that continued to plague them.
Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.
Murad Muna, a brother of one of the bookshop owners detained in an Israeli police raid on the famous Educational Bookshop store in Jerusalem, said he was surprised by the crowd that showed up in solidarity after he reopened the store.
In Callan Wink’s new novel, two brothers struggling to make ends meet are forced to turn to shady ventures.
While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: Start on Page 1, then keep writing.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, try this short quiz on authors who found love with other authors.
The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather than legal.
The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story.
These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kids’ lives.
With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.
In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm.
Hadi Matar is charged with attempted murder in the attack, which took place in 2022 as Mr. Rushdie was about to speak at an arts conference in western New York.
He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”
The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.
On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching.
Los textos, escritos tras una serie de reuniones con su psiquiatra, forman un relato que se siente más íntimo y franco que todo lo que se ha publicado antes de la autora.
In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
In the 2022 Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.
Our critic on the month’s most notable releases.
Nadine Gordimer’s stories; Margaret Atwood’s sketches.
The novelist Robyn Gigl picks her favorite courtroom dramas and legal whodunits — some of which may surprise you.
Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.
The director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel.
Two new books grapple with the questions of who we are, what we are, whether we are — and what we can do for one another.
In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human.
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Convertirme en quien soy como escritor —y hacerlo frente a ustedes y para ustedes— ha sido uno de los grandes honores de mi vida.
Sometimes you can just change them, the psychologist Ethan Kross argues in his new book, “Shift.”
We asked professional organizers to share their favorite books.
For years, Na Kim has made great books stand out. Now her paintings are catching eyes, too.
Eighteen books in (the latest is “Every Tom, Dick & Harry”), she still recalls an editor’s note urging more action: “Could someone here please pass the potatoes?”
He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
Growing into myself as a writer — and doing it in front of and for all of you — has been one of the great honors of my life.
Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.
These vintage books introduce the archetypes, settings and lavishly bonkers sensibility that are the hallmarks of great romance.
Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.
The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, “Notes to John.” They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her daughter.
In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.
“Rogues and Scholars,” James Stourton’s erudite and authoritative history, doesn’t spare the color.
An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.
Scarlett Pavlovich, who accused Mr. Gaiman of rape and assault in a report last month, said in the suit that his wife had played a role in “procuring and presenting” her.
For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why she’s taking a break.
Ali Smith’s latest novel, “Gliff,” infuses a Y.A. plot with her distinctive verbal magic.
After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.
Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath.
Joseph O’Connor’s novel “The Ghosts of Rome” explores a World War II resistance network based in the Vatican.
Call her Ruth, or Baby, or Sunday: A San Francisco sex worker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to unravel in Brittany Newell’s vivid “Soft Core.”
Wherever it goes, Heavy Traffic draws a stylish, contrarian crowd.
Try this short quiz on Africa’s vibrant literary scene and its globally popular authors.
In Anne Tyler’s new novel, a socially inept mother faces hurdles in her personal, professional and family lives.
A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white literary contemporaries.
In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.
In her fifth memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan writes about her 36-year marriage, her adult children and why she keeps telling her story.
A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust.
Reporting, and opining, for The New York Times and The Daily News, he was known for his combative style and relished tweaking the powerful people in the sport.
A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.
In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband.
“Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s latest examination of male self-delusion, finds a Brooklyn journalist falling under the sway of a Svengali.
What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best.
Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer.
Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival.
In Julie Iromuanya’s novel “A Season of Light,” a Nigerian American family in Florida experiences aftershocks from their father’s trauma during the Biafran War.
Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.
This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion.
In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth.
His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of life.”
“Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.
In an interview, the Monty Python veteran looks back on his experiences performing in the revered sketch troupe and touring the world as a travel host.
Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.
These steamy reads bring the emotion and the heat.
El cofundador de Microsoft y filántropo se da tiempo para examinar su trayectoria y analizar dónde encajan los multimillonarios actualmente.
The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the romantasy genre’s staying power.
We asked 10 writers — including Hernan Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Casey McQuiston — to recommend books that capture their particular slice of life in New York.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.