The first Native American to run a TV comedy talked about creating the new series with Michael Schur and Ed Helms and about her long family history of storytelling.
In an unusual literary and linguistic feat, the Pulitzer-winning author of “Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Namesake” wrote her latest novel, “Whereabouts,” in Italian and translated it to English.
This is the origin story most people have never heard.
In “First Steps,” Jeremy DeSilva tells the evolutionary story of moving on two feet and how it shaped human development.
Gordon-Reed’s new book is a series of short, moving essays about her family’s history and about the end of legalized slavery in Texas.
The psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones writes about the different varieties of spite, and argues that the emotion “can be a force for good,” if deployed strategically.
La selección tiene omisiones imperdonables y la presencia desproporcionada de los epicentros culturales de siempre. Si las listas literarias no son representativas: ¿siguen siendo relevantes?
How taking on unfamiliar challenges alongside my daughter benefits us both.
Brace yourself for a hearty dose of fatalism in “Terminal Boredom,” a dystopian story collection by Izumi Suzuki.
A selection of recent poetry books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An addiction psychiatrist’s counterintuitive approach to dealing with worry, craving and anxiety.
In her magical new novel, “Popisho,” Leone Ross transforms humanity’s worn-out suffering into something new and astonishing.
As much as cultures have changed over the years, we still share traits with the flawed, searching characters between these covers.
In “I Am a Girl From Africa,” the former U.N. adviser Elizabeth Nyamayaro retraces her life story from childhood starvation to NGOs.
In Gregory Curtis’s memoir, he looks back on his marriage and the city that saved him after his wife died of cancer.
The British author Fiona Mozley’s new novel, “Hot Stew,” features sex workers fighting an eviction order from a real-estate heiress and a host of other Londoners vying for control over their lives, careers and possessions.
Some 80 years after Wright finished it, “The Man Who Lived Underground” is still an urgent chronicle of the Black experience in America.
“Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?,” by the British critic and novelist who died in 2016, features essays originally published in The London Review of Books that showcase her keen wit, incisive observations and intimate voice.
The New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, is now the subject of four separate investigations into his behavior in office.
In Ozick’s new novella, an elderly man recalls his alienation at a boarding school decades before and his friendship with a Jewish classmate.
As the subject of no fewer than three biographies since her death in 1995, the popular writer lived a complicated, if fascinating, life. What was she really like?
Looking to read one of his books? Let us help.
Jonathan Ames, known for his confessional essays and TV shows like “Bored to Death,” tries his hand at a detective novel with “A Man Named Doll.”
Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever?
Grisham has spent the past 30 years churning out legal thrillers, but the pandemic’s impact on college sports prompted him to shift his focus to a basketball novel called “Sooley.”
In “Hawking Hawking,” Charles Seife offers a portrait of the famous theoretical physicist and tries to unpack his place in popular culture.
Louis Menand’s new book about art and thought in the postwar years features a very large cast, including George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag and the Beatles.
He wrote prodigiously while teaching, first in Dublin and then in New York, and often clashed with critics he considered too political.
Michelle Zauner, a musician who performs under the name Japanese Breakfast, is making her book debut with “Crying in H Mart.”
In Dan Gutman’s “Houdini and Me,” a boy named Harry who lives in Houdini’s old house is getting text messages from the long-dead magician’s ghost.
In “The Anti-Book,” Raphael Simon explores what happens when a bubble gum prize enables an angry boy to erase everything he hates about his life.
We explore which faith groups are counting victories in recent rulings. Plus, 15 years of The Book Review Podcast.
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting, has a book deal with a small press, but its distributor, Simon & Schuster, in an unusual move, said it won’t ship it.
Pamela Paul, Sam Tanenhaus and others discuss what’s happened behind the scenes during 15 years of the podcast.
Talks with Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Reginald Dwayne Betts and others, from the eras of both the show’s hosts, Sam Tanenhaus and Pamela Paul.
Our horror columnist looks at three new books, one of which is Polly Hall’s shudder-inducing debut, “The Taxidermist’s Lover.”
This Earth Day, show kids they can find refuge in the outdoors.
A children’s book illustrator and author describes her path through classics like “Blueberries for Sal” and “Where the Wild Things Are.”
Andrea Wang, Jason Chin, Travis Jonker, Grant Snider, Juana Martinez-Neal, Corinna Luyken and more depict our symbiotic relationship with the environment.
The organizers of at least five British awards received emails asking them to transfer prize money to a PayPal account. One of them paid out.
The creators of “Zero,” including the co-writer Antonio Dikele Distefano, say they hope viewers enjoy it so much that the characters’ racial identity becomes irrelevant.
After a year dominated by protests against police killings of Black Americans, the books on the list of the most frequently challenged titles of 2020 reflected the movement — and the backlash to it.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In different ways, three new books guide readers through the long struggle for equal rights.
The psychologist Alison Gopnik and Ezra Klein discuss what children can teach adults about learning, consciousness and play.
From “Useful Delusions,” by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler, about why lying to ourselves can be good, to Adam Grant’s “Think Again,” about how we can reset our preconceived notions.
Plans by Post Hill Press to publish the book, written by Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, have drawn sharp criticism.
It’s more about listening than talking.
She was a 51-year old former antiques dealer with no experience as a writer when she wrote to the editor of The World of Interiors magazine about a job. She was hired.
Mr. DiTrapano championed avant-garde work and relished taking chances on young, untested authors. His Tyrant Books produced some unexpected hits.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
‘The Book Review’ podcast began as a brief show with a rebellious touch. It became a forum for some of the biggest names in literature.
The New York Institute for the Humanities, founded in 1977 as a venue for cross-disciplinary conversation, is moving to the New York Public Library.
“I get superstitious. I once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. I took that book and dug a hole and buried it deep in the backyard.”
“Of Women and Salt” is a novel about sisters and mothers — and its author is an expert on these subjects.
In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation.
“The Promise,” Damon Galgut’s latest novel, is a portrait of pain and change in South Africa.
Keiichiro Hirano’s “At the End of the Matinee” follows the star-crossed love story between a classical musician and a renowned reporter.
The president’s rhetoric on Wednesday in announcing the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was steeped in exasperation and grief.
He deftly mocked pop culture, politics and more for 57 years. He also wrote new lyrics for familiar songs, which led to a lawsuit from Irving Berlin and others.
His book, published in 1982 amid a brutal recession, foretold of a bountiful postindustrial information economy. He was half right.
Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.”
A new publication from a Vanity Fair veteran aims to attract writers with a revenue-sharing plan. The project has private equity backing.
Even if you think you’re poetry-averse, these writers may change your mind.
“The Seven Deadly Sins,” a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking District.
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.
In “Beloved Beasts,” Michelle Nijhuis tells the stories of the men and women who have fought to rescue endangered animals from extinction.
Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, highlights memorable episodes from her eight years hosting the show, including conversations with Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson, James McBride and others.
In “The Third Pole,” the author and adventurer Mark Synnott documents his attempt to find the lost body of a 1924 explorer.
In Babalola’s debut collection, “Love in Color,” the knight in shining armor doesn’t necessarily wield a blade, but instead, the ability to see.
After the author and TV personality’s death, his longtime assistant was left to finish his last book, a world travel guide.
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Early Morning Riser,” by Katherine Heiny
An excerpt from “Under the Wave at Waimea,” by Paul Theroux
In “When the Stars Go Dark,” the author of “The Paris Wife” tries her hand at a new genre.
In a time of Covid-19, climate change and catastrophe, having a baby is an act of radical hope.
The protagonist of the author’s latest work, “Antiquities,” recounts his obsession with Egyptian artifacts and his boyhood friendship with an unusual classmate.
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut, “Open Water,” sets a romance between 20-somethings against the backdrop of racial oppression in southeast London.
Written in the wake of Kristallnacht, “The Passenger,” a novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, follows a Jewish man in an increasingly hostile world.
“Under the Wave at Waimea” follows a former surfer through a reflective and ultimately transformative period.
“The Memory Theater,” “On Fragile Waves” and “Victories Greater Than Death” take readers tumbling through realms and ever stranger stories.
“Empire of Pain,” by the New Yorker staff writer, is a deeply reported chronicle of the Sackler family and the highly addictive painkiller it marketed — at great profit and with disastrous results for the public.
In this dark family memoir, Vince Granata recalls the afternoon his brother killed his mother.
“New Yorkers,” an oral history by Craig Taylor, and “Names of New York,” Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s chronicle of street names, capture the dizzying variety and fluidity of the city’s stories.
In “Aviary,” by Deirdre McNamer, a fire at a senior living facility reveals the entangled lives of its inhabitants.
Maria Kuznetsova’s novel “Something Unbelievable” shows how unspectacular moments can transcend their confines, how spectacular the ordinary can be.
Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.
“Early Morning Riser” is a small-town story with meaningful ramifications.
“The Bookseller of Florence,” by Ross King, tells the history of Renaissance bookmaking through the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, who rose from humble roots to dominate the trade.
“An Apprenticeship” is a love story between a schoolteacher and a professor. But it’s also a kind of spiritual treatise.
A wide-ranging discussion with Tressie McMillan Cottom, one of America’s sharpest contemporary cultural critics.
Robert Simonson offers up scores of recipes for the Mexican spirit, and its cousin, tequila, in his latest book.
In JoAnne Tompkins’s debut novel, “What Comes After,” a town reeling from unimaginable loss opens its doors to a pregnant stranger.
With good friends, as with great art, our sense of the world is challenged and transformed.
“This crisis affects more or less everyone, and poetry can help us process difficult feelings like loss, sadness, anger, lack of hope.”
“This crisis affects more or less everyone, and poetry can help us process difficult feelings like loss, sadness, anger, lack of hope.”
“Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?” collects a few dozen of Diski’s best pieces for the London Review of Books.
In powering through discomfort, I became inured to it — until I figured out how to acknowledge what I actually wanted.
For his book, “How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius,” Nick Greene spoke to the best in ballet, magic and astrophysics for a fresh perspective on the sport.
A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.
Philip Roth was his own favorite subject. What’s left for a biographer?
The horrors of Covid-19 may give proponents of the liberal arts an unexpected opening.
Prof. Carl Hart saw drugs as destroyers of communities. Then he saw the positive side. “We have miseducated the public,” he said.
His relationship with his subjects and critics could be tempestuous. His interview with Mayor Edward I. Koch for Playboy may have cost Koch the governorship
On National Pet Day, we look at some of our most famous authors and the furry companions — dogs, cats and even goats — who offered them inspiration.
Bailey talks about his new biography, and Julia Sweig discusses “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.”
Amanda Ripley’s “High Conflict” explores the kind of disputes that are so bad they feel existential — and how to get out of them.
Our thriller columnist weighs in on Peter Swanson’s “Every Vow You Break” and two other thoroughly unsettling new novels.
The three animals in “The Rock From the Sky” could fit easily into “Waiting for Godot.” They’re waiting. They’re alienated. They wear hats.
Kushner’s latest book, “The Hard Crowd,” contains essays written over the past 20 years.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book is about the Sacklers, the family whose company created the powerful painkiller that ushered in a new era of both pain management and opioid addiction.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In “Second Nature,” Nathaniel Rich offers a tour of the ways humans have both conquered the natural world and been overwhelmed by the unintended consequences.
Often writing with Rosie Shuster, she created memorable sketches in the show’s early years, including ones involving those nerds Lisa and Todd.
“On the House” is an anecdote-rich memoir by the former speaker of the House that fails to give readers the whole picture.
The author’s oeuvre has long been the subject of cinematic preoccupation, inspiring over 20 screen adaptations and counting. Here, a close read of four of the best and worst of them.
Disney can’t change its problematic past. But can it make a new future with Marvel?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In Brian Alexander’s “The Hospital,” an intimate portrait of a small hospital in Bryan, Ohio.
A new book argues that you can become better at investing by borrowing ideas from those who do it best.
Patrick Radden Keefe has investigated human smuggling, government espionage and the Northern Ireland conflict. With “Empire of Pain,” he takes on the Sackler family and the opioid crisis.
Her poem “The Hill We Climb” is now a commemorative hardcover edition.
In “Good Company,” Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney explores the long friendship and occasional secrets of two couples.
A chance finding in a flea market, and new books for new times. Also: The American birthrate.
As a child, the novelist found consolation in books that embraced American rugged individualism and the Korean quest for knowledge. Those same books showed her how to honor the stories of the people she grew up with.
Luke Epplin talks about “Our Team,” which recounts the Cleveland Indians’ seasons of 1947 and 1948, including Larry Doby becoming the first Black player in the American League.
In “Beeswing,” one of the great pioneers of folk-rock looks back on his early years.
In his debut novel, “Open Water,” the British-Ghanaian author incorporates images, scenes and the occasional Kendrick Lamar lyric to communicate what prose alone cannot.
It begins with a middle school teacher’s assignment to her class: “Imagine that your home is on fire. You’re allowed to save one thing.”
Stimulating and immersive — yet actor-free — this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
In showing several different sides of the filmmaker, some of them contradictory, Edward White’s “The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock” captures him in full.
A prolific writer and a prominent speaker, he promoted dialogue among religions and challenged Vatican doctrine on many fronts, provoking its censure.
Kate Lebo’s “The Book of Difficult Fruit” extracts history — and personal memory — out of the plant kingdom.
In Morgan Jerkins’s “Caul Baby,” one family has the life-giving medicine every childbearing woman needs.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Broken Horses: A Memoir,” by Brandi Carlile
An excerpt from “Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism and Treason,” by Gina Frangello
In the winter of 2019, a family traveled on a literary pilgrimage to the Oregon city that left its mark on the celebrated author’s imagination.
In “Blow Your House Down,” Gina Frangello examines her experience of loss, lust, pain and longing with angry intensity.
In “Peaces,” young lovers and their pet mongooses take a WesAnderson-style ride on a train to nowhere.
“Paradise, Nevada,” Dario Diofebi’s debut novel, follows four characters through the daily dramas of the desert city.
Simon Heffer’s “The Age of Decadence” describes a society in ferment and a complacent ruling class.
The hero of Sanjena Sathian’s “Gold Diggers,” a son of Indian immigrants, finds a magical elixir to help him succeed.
Three new books analyze the shortcomings of the nation’s criminal justice system.
In “First Person Singular,” Murakami’s new story collection, one feels the author easing up, allowing his own voice to enter the narratives.
In “The Wild Silence,” a sequel to her best-selling memoir “The Salt Path,” the British author contends with the illness and death of loved ones but finds solace outdoors.
J. Robert Lennon’s new novel, “Subdivision,” and story collection, “Let Me Think,” offer puzzle-box narratives and alternate realities.