Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“I don’t want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long,” says the best-selling novelist. “Funny Story,” about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.
Six people, from Lorraine O’Grady to Wallace Stevens, who found a new creative calling – or received long-overdue recognition — later in life.
Marina Abramović, David Henry Hwang and others reveal their juvenalia.
From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — before their creative lives went in a different direction.
The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.
Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.
It takes courage to start. And far more to continue.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.
In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful.
Maulik Pancholy was scheduled to give a talk on anti-bullying at a Pennsylvania school next month. School board members scrapped it, citing concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.”
In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.
“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.
In Bekah Brunstetter’s new play “The Game,” women withhold sex from their partners who are obsessed with a Fortnite-like game. Her previous work includes “The Oregon Trail.”
Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
Greg Cowles, the poetry editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends four books that are perfect for National Poetry Month.
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
Our reporter on the author’s new memoir.
“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
A professed archaeologist of the industry, he opened his own stores and partnered with other experts and vendors in the nascent comics business.
Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.
“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.
This month’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to uncover novels written for middle-grade readers.
“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
Inspired by the drummer Arthur Taylor’s “Notes and Tones” collection of interviews with fellow musicians, Pelt started his own book series, “Griot.”
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.
The author’s new memoir, “Knife,” addresses the attack that maimed him in 2022, and pays tribute to the wife who saw him through. “I wanted to write a book which was about both love and hatred — one overcoming the other,” he says.
Struggling men need to leave the gurus behind.
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”
OpenAI, Google y Meta ignoraron las políticas corporativas, alteraron sus propias normas y debatieron la posibilidad de eludir la ley de derechos de autor en la búsqueda de información en línea para entrenar sus sistemas de inteligencia artificial más recientes.
En el libro, Navalny cuenta su historia con sus propias palabras, relatando su vida, su ascenso como líder de la oposición y los atentados contra su seguridad.
A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.
Years after Mr. Simpson was acquitted, he wrote a book and gave a shocking interview. The whole endeavor cost the publisher, Judith Regan, her job.
A tax manifesto by Edmund Wilson and a money-themed story collection.
These days, literary events in New York City can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as the hottest restaurant.
In “New Cold Wars,” David E. Sanger tracks the shifts in U.S. foreign policy as competition among the great powers re-emerges in the 21st century.
In the debut novel “The Band,” a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui?
Cult leaders, curdled 1960s idealism and outsider art collide in Max Ludington’s prismatic novel, “Thorn Tree.”
Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.”
The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company’s history and its hopes for the future.
Including titles by Cecile Pin, Elizabeth Graver, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and more.
Los desarrolladores de modelos se están quedando sin datos para entrenar a sus sistemas y se apoyan ahora en otros generados por la propia tecnología.
No, they’re not boring. But the charm and magic of these audiobooks make them the ideal bedtime stories for adults.
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month’s diverse offerings.
A university program seeks to improve cross-cultural understanding in Australia’s publishing industry.
Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke With You” makes a charming first impression, and right away you want to get to know it better.
The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Feldman, who wrote in “Unorthodox” about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.
In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.
In her new play, ‘Sally & Tom,’ Suzan-Lori Parks brings exuberant provocation to the gravest historical questions.
His new book, “There’s Always This Year,” is a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio.
Our columnist on three new psychological thrillers.
Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
What can fiction tell us about the apocalypse? Ayana Mathis finds unexpected hope in novels of crisis by Ling Ma, Jenny Offill and Jesmyn Ward.
Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.
The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped it grow.
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time.
For him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.
Books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Hwang Sok-yong are among six nominees for the prestigious award for translated fiction.
In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.
It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.
In Jen Silverman’s new novel, “There’s Going to Be Trouble,” two generations of activists wrestle with the errors of the past as they strive to create a more survivable future.
From dolphins with Alzheimer’s to cranky traffic judges, writes Clayton Page Aldern, the whole planet is going berserk.
In her far-reaching latest novel, “The Limits,” Nell Freudenberger forges connections between the global and the familial.
In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.
La serie de Netflix muestra una de las obras culturales más exitosas del país, una exportación cultural inusual. Sin embargo, las redes sociales la condenan.
In the new series and in five previous movies, the character serves as a blank slate to examine the mores and concerns of the time.
In “The Familiar,” the blockbuster fantasist conjures a world of mystical intrigue and romance.
Try this short quiz on recent fiction that follows characters dealing with a turbulent world.
Tibble, 28, has been hailed as the fresh, funny and immensely skilled voice of a generation.
Amid a nationwide surge in book bans, memoirs and novels that deal with the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore race received the most challenges.
A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”
Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world.
In her buzzy memoir, “Sociopath,” Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the condition.
The Netflix series showcases one of the country’s most successful works of culture. Instead of demonstrating pride, social media is condemning it.
In “The Wives,” Simone Gorrindo tells the story of joining a behind-the-scenes sorority — and how it changed her.
“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure.
Roemer’s books bring Suriname, on the South American Caribbean coast, to the world. Her 2019 novel, “Off-White,” will be released in English this month.
She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement.
People cross boundaries in Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” and Penelope Lively’s “The Photograph.”
Keith O’Brien’s “Charlie Hustle” tracks the great ballplayer’s historic career and also tells a story involving gamblers, gangsters and drug addicts.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.
For the “Star Trek” actor and author of the new children’s book “My Lost Freedom,” it’s all about green tea and antioxidants. “I drink it every day, all day. I am an addict,” he says.
Scarlett Thomas’s latest novel, “The Sleepwalkers,” recounts the tale of a couple’s disastrous getaway, told through letters, transcripts and more.
In “A Better World,” a family hoping to escape their dangerous reality gets invited to an exclusive town only to discover that it’s not as peaceful as it seems.
In “Fi,” Alexandra Fuller describes the sudden death of her 21-year-old.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
On this week’s podcast, we talk to the novelist Grady Hendrix and TV showrunner Damon Lindelof about the work and influence of Stephen King.
She explored the struggles of young women in the novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with a children’s book about a magical cupboard.
A bookstore event for the newly published “Barbie: The World Tour” brought out the die-hards.
A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Isabella Hammad, Charles Frazier, Emily Flitter and more.
Stephen King’s debut novel, about a bullied girl who gets revenge, used to horrify me. Now I find Carrie’s story inspiring.
For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising.
Murph the Surf became an unlikely folk hero after robbing the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Gems in 1964. A collector is selling his archive for $30,000.
A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text.
This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Vision & Justice publishing initiative hopes to build a richer, more racially inclusive history of photography.
John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.
“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.”
In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.”
Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
The “Stranger Things” actor reads an essay about a “nobody-moves-out” breakup and reflects on her own experience growing up with divorced parents.
The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.
Responses to an Opinion article by Frank Bruni. Also: Investing in Ukraine; Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel; America’s gun culture.
Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices.
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
A Philadelphia chef goes searching for her family history in Jo Piazza’s sun-baked multigenerational tale “The Sicilian Inheritance.”
An editor’s ambition. A coveted manuscript. The gift of a cow. Lives and lies graze one another in Neel Mukherjee’s tragicomic novel.
The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”
“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism.
Un multimillonario que ayudó a lanzar el éxito de ciencia ficción, ahora adaptado por Netflix, murió envenenado a manos de un ejecutivo contrariado. Esta es la historia.
April is National Poetry Month! Test your knowledge on a variety of verse with this short quiz.
Lin Qi, a billionaire who helped produce the science-fiction hit, was poisoned to death by a disgruntled executive. His attacker now faces the death penalty.
Our poet laureate Ada Limón is on a mission to reconnect us to nature.
At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.
In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a boneyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.
For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was “life altering.” She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten author in “Traces of Enayat.”
Maya Van Wagenen, the author of “Chronically Dolores,” shares her favorite young adult books that authentically represent being a teenager living with illness.
Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”
Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”
As evidence grows about the benefits of tying the knot, married people are poised to become a minority.
Annabelle Tometich’s “The Mango Tree” provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.
“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals.
In Carys Davies’s latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.
His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”
She’s sold more than 25 million copies, but isn’t slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase.
Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai weigh in on 22 of the funniest novels since “Catch-22.”
Kao Kalia Yang talks about her recently published memoir, “Where Rivers Part,” which is about her mother’s life.