Roth’s work had more rage, more wit, more lust, more talk, and more crosscurrents of thought and emotion than any writer of his time.
An English Jew’s debt to the author and his exuberant, stubborn Jews.
Mr. Roth won almost all the major literary awards and published an exceptional sequence of historical novels in his 60s, an age when many writers are winding down.
Gary Krist tells the story of the city through the lives of three people whose restlessness and ambition transformed it in the early decades of the 20th century.
Chris Offutt’s new novel, “Country Dark,” is set in the world of backwoods moonshiners.
A reader writes of her admiration for the man and his work.
The way we mourn now? On Twitter. Philip Roth has died at the age of 85, and the Twittersphere is sitting shiva.
The prolific author died on Tuesday. Here are seven of his books that you should read right now.
The journalist Can Dundar wrote the book “We Are Arrested” while imprisoned in Turkey. Now, Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company has turned it into a play.
Our presidents’ love of detective fiction has an august history. Craig Fehrman follows the clues.
The author shares the £50,000 prize for “Flights” with the novel’s translator, Jennifer Croft. The award is for works of fiction translated into English.
The New York Times sat down with Philip Roth in 2008 to talk about his life and accomplishments.
In “Mirror, Shoulder, Signal,” the Danish novelist Dorthe Nors continues her intense fascination with aging, and with women who have resisted domestication.
In her new book, Alisa Roth details the way the criminal justice system makes the sick even sicker.
“The Outsider” starts out as a routine police procedural but before long transforms into something much more sinister.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Whether you’re traveling across the country or just taking a staycation, stock up for summer with these books that are as varied as America itself.
While it might be tempting to proclaim that the borough is back, last weekend’s literary celebration proved it never really left.
Mr. Lewis’s views on the connection between Islam and terrorism inspired controversy but also helped shape American foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Our critic calls this series of novels, which began with “Outline” and “Transit,” a “stark, modern, adamantine new skyscraper on the literary horizon.”
Lionel Shriver’s collection of short fiction, “Property,” is a wryly observant catalog of the ways an acquisitive urge can go astray.
In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham argues that in bad times a liberal impulse has often prevailed over fear and division.
A committed liberal, he wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and later worked as an author, journalist and political consultant.
In “Bad Blood,” John Carreyrou tells of the rise and incredible fall of Theranos, the biotech company that was going to revolutionize blood testing.
Jim DeFelice talks about “West Like Lightning,” his new history of the short-lived but long-remembered company and how it changed the United States.
Where did F. Scott Fitzgerald find the landscape for “The Great Gatsby”? A book and a documentary challenge the long-held belief that Great Neck was the basis for West Egg.
Francisco Cantú braced for the fury of anti-immigration figures when he wrote a Border Patrol memoir. Then came the onslaught of criticism from immigrants themselves.
Rachel Slade talks about “Into the Raging Sea,” and Clemantine Wamariya talks about “The Girl Who Smiled Beads.”
This AMC show, based on the 2015 Sarai Walker novel of the same name, is a makeover story glimpsed through a series of distorting mirrors.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Her writing pulsed with her hardscrabble Texas childhood and, refusing to be his “muse,” her liberation from an overbearing poet husband.
In “The Soul of America,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the history of partisan fury.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: J.D. Scott reviews “The Old Boys.”
In today’s commencement addresses, as evidenced by recent books, inspiration is sometimes superseded by skepticism.
Picture books may be the best way to tell stories about modern, computer-saturated childhoods.
A horrific account by David Thibodeau, one of the few Branch Davidians to survive both their leader’s doctrine and the F.B.I.’s bungled “rescue” attempt.
In “Not Enough,” the Yale professor Samuel Moyn argues for a global solution to material inequality.
“See What Can Be Done” collects pieces on everything from Alice Munro’s fiction to the Lewinsky scandal to “O.J.: Made in America.”
L’Engle’s granddaughters, Lena Roy and Charlotte Jones Voiklis, narrate “Becoming Madeleine,” a biography they wrote for the middle-grade set.
Domenico Starnone offers his own Neapolitan novel while Paolo Cognetti goes to the Alps and Edgardo Franzosini probes the life of a troubled sculptor.
Though their stories are quite different, the underlying message in “The Last Black Unicorn” and “Every Day I’m Hustling” is the same.
In their first book, “Like Brothers,” the indie filmmaker siblings Jay and Mark Duplass recount their unlikely path to Hollywood and tell readers how to follow suit.
In “Motherhood,” a childless woman in her late 30s consults friends, psychics, the I Ching and her own conscience on the pros and cons of procreation.
In her final work, “Misère,” the late art historian Linda Nochlin finds in depictions of poverty in 19th-century art echoes of the miseries of the present.
In “The Burning Shores,” Frederic Wehrey traces Libya’s troubles from the beginning of the revolution to its current upheavals.
Robert Kuttner’s latest book, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?,” looks at the backlash against markets unconstrained by national interest.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Reading “Invisible Cities” allowed the graphic artist Aude White to see her own surroundings in a new light.
To finish my biography, “Robin” (out this week), it took four years, dozens of interviews and more than a little humility.
The author of monumental works, he achieved renown in government as a “cold warrior” skeptic about détente with the Soviet Union.
Want to read more books by the person who wrote the screenplay (and novel) for the movie “On Chesil Beach”?
“Happy as Lazzaro” and “Burning” are strong entries, so it’s too bad they won’t mean much to the American box office.
R.O. Kwon, Judy Blundell, Masih Alinejad and James A. McLaughlin talk about their new books.
In addition to the season’s usual fun, there are serious looks at pressing subjects among this summer’s must-reads, including the latest by Beth Macy, Michael Pollan and Jaron Lanier.
The Times’s staff book critics and others on what they’ll be packing to read at the beach.
In “It’s Time to Fight Dirty,” David Faris lays out a strategy for structural changes to level a skewed electoral playing field.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The historical novelist Alison Weir, author most recently of “Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen,” has some reading advice for Meghan Markle.
From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to “The Waste Land” and “Four Quartets,” an audiobook original revisits the poet’s most beloved lines.
The biggest mistakes most athletes make, how running can be good for the knees and why you might want to eat more gristle.
“The Right Stuff” helped me, a terrible student with severe attention problems, find purpose and become an astronaut.
His dark works avoided the stereotype of a rural Irish utopia, instead exploring subjects like the county’s famine and its history of emigration.
In his latest and likely last book, McCain expresses concern about the state of the union, but generally stops short of calling out President Trump.
"And Now We Have Everything” demystifies all the anxieties, logistics and wonders of pregnancy and childbirth — things Meaghan O’Connell never knew she wanted.
The literary event and a new general interest bookstore mark a revival in the borough.
His journalism was unlike any I’d ever read, sympathetic and evocative and inventive, but also sharp-eyed and precise and acerbic.
Michael Bennett’s “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable,” written with Dave Zirin, is both a memoir and a call to political action.
From the Flushing Remonstrance to Occupy Wall Street, New York City has been at the forefront of social activism for centuries. And a homage to the beauty of infrastructure.
Wolfe, who died at 88 on Monday, was a field commander of the so-called New Journalism and wrote novels meant to capture wide swaths of society.
An opinion editor reflects on the hobby-turned-passion that offers him a respite from policy stories.
The writer’s prose wasn’t his only notable stylistic gesture.
He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” “Bonfire of the Vanities” and “The Right Stuff,” and pioneered a novelistic form of journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
The intimate relationship of Eleanor Roosevelt and the A.P. reporter Lorena Hickok is explored in new novels by Amy Bloom and Kelly O’Connor McNees.
The novelist Tom Wolfe has died. Here is a sampling of his work.
The pages contained prurient jokes and a discussion of what the teenage diarist described as “sexual matters.”
“When Einstein Walked with Gödel” is a collection of Jim Holt’s elegant essays, which make big subjects — like the illusion of time — both intelligible and enticing.
The decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been well-documented in literature.
Fifty years after the spacecraft became the first to leave Earth’s orbit, Robert Kurson tells the story of the remarkable odyssey in “Rocket Men.”
Imagining a life in the fictional lair belonging to Richard Adams’s rabbit protagonists in Hampshire, England.
He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,’ ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ and ‘The Right Stuff,’ and pioneered the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
It’s more than just a memoir: It’s logistically stupefying, touching and absolutely packed with choice late-’80s gossip.
Dave Itzkoff’s exhaustive biography, “Robin,” explains why a great comedian “had admirers but no imitators.”
His books drew conspiracists and cultists as well as the director Tim Burton, who adapted two of them into the films “Ed Wood” and “Big Eyes.”
In “The Perfectionists,” Simon Winchester turns to the history of mechanical engineering, seeing in its triumphs the key to understanding so much of our world.
In “How to Change Your Mind,” Michael Pollan writes about the history, science and lessons of LSD and other psychedelic substances.
Sameen Rushdie published this practical volume in Britain in 1988 to fight stereotypes about the country’s food. The times have finally caught up to her.
In “The Order of Time,” a theoretical physicist reveals his take on relativity, order and the human condition.
Steepletop, the poet’s former home, is much as she left it when she died there in 1950. But dire finances could force it to close.
In “Love That Bunch,” a retrospective of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s work, we see a more content woman emerge. Though she is still brutally honest.
The great Irish writer William Trevor captured turning points in individual lives with powerful slyness. “Last Stories” is his final gift to us.
The editor of The Magazine’s Letter of Recommendation column explains the curious calculus that goes into its picks, from Pedialyte to zip ties.
A recently unearthed rare letter from the then-young writer explains “Miriam,” a piece of short fiction he published in Mademoiselle in 1945.
In “The Art of Gathering,” Priya Parker offers provocative and sometimes counterintuitive lessons on how to invigorate everything from weddings to high-pressure political negotiations.
Guides to transitioning back to the office, navigating an unplanned pregnancy and raising a feminist daughter.
Think your mother was harsh? These books will convince you that she deserves a Mother of the Year Award.
As head of the Penguin Group, he weathered threats over the Salman Rushdie novel. Later, with his father, he had success publishing out-of-print books.
This year, we picked five college application essays about money to publish. College admissions officers admired their maturity, self-awareness and humanity.
Taking their cue from a screenwriter, rival software developers are adding tools to analyze material before it reaches casting directors or producers.
John McCain is not just plotting the details of his own funeral, but living it. And he’s giving us a very public tutorial in dignity and defiance.
Chozick discusses her time covering Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, and Sloane Crosley talks about her new collection of essays, “Look Alive Out There.”
Readers offer their experiences at Barnes & Noble and independent bookstores.
Aimee Molloy says the song’s lyrics inspired her as she wrote “The Perfect Mother,” her chilling novel set in a Brooklyn mom’s group.
Jonathan Miles’s “St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva” dishes up an A-to-Z of Russian urban culture and politics.
In “The Island That Disappeared,” Tom Feiling tells the riotous story of a Caribbean colony that failed in its rivalry with Puritan Massachusetts.
In “Battleship Yamato,” Jan Morris ponders the terrible beauty and irony of war as symbolized by the destruction of the Japanese Navy’s great vessel.
Louis Vuitton’s men’s scents, an update to E.M. Forster’s ‘Howard’s End,’ flasks for the modern drinker — and more.
In “Memento Park,” a C-list actor discovers Nazis may have looted a valuable family painting during World War II — but his father refuses to discuss the matter.
In “The Gunners,” Rebecca Kauffman’s generous and affectionate novel, five friends parse what drove the sixth member of their group to take her own life.
In Tadzio Koelb’s “Trenton Makes,” a battered wife gets revenge, and then some, on her spouse.
With “On Chesil Beach,” the sixth of his novels to be made into a film, the writer played a surprisingly key role in the creative process.
The 8-year-old heroine of Zulema Renee Summerfield’s “Every Other Weekend” struggles to make sense of traumas both outside her home and within it.
During the day, Mr. Temple gets a little loud at his kids’ soccer games. Later, he’ll often meet “writer friends” for drinks at the No. 7 restaurant near his home in Fort Greene.
Ali Fitzgerald illustrates a step-by-step guide to throwing the perfect modernist soiree.
Treats for little ones include the true story of a brave rescue dog, a bedtime tale about a rampaging bunny and a new Sandra Boynton board book.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
New books about America’s dark underbelly include a Norwegian journalist embedded with white nationalists and stories of falling into — and out of — a violent hate movement.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Lawrence Venuti on Jan Morris.
For Life, Time and other magazines, Mr. Shay photographed Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Ali and nine presidents, as well as the streets of Chicago.
The online phenom on her new memoir, “Well, That Escalated Quickly,” her accidental activism and why she’s taking a step back from the internet.
A legal battled had been waged over whether a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” strayed too far from Harper Lee’s novel.
Aida Edemariam’s sublimely crafted book, “The Wife’s Tale,” recounts the life of her Ethiopian grandmother, who witnessed her country’s dramas and endured her own.
Ray Bradbury believed that serious thought was under threat from television and mass media. Ramin Bahrani, who adapted Bradbury’s novel for film, says it’s more relevant than ever.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
After a decade of introspective, self-consciously autobiographical fiction, a new crop of stories — many by women — seethes with the anger of our current era.
The law treats electronic books and their printed counterparts differently when it comes to what you can do with them.
The comedian and blogger Samantha Irby, whose collection “Meaty” has just been reissued, would love to see celebrities’ grocery lists: “I’m so curious about other people’s daily needs. What’s in your bathroom cabinet right now?”
“War on Peace” details how American policy is being driven by military leaders rather than the State Department.
Mr. Cohen and his wife, Susan, lost their daughter over Scotland when terrorists attacked Flight 103 in 1988. The couple became voices of the bereaved.
In “Asperger’s Children,” Edith Sheffer tells the story of how a doctor once praised as an ally in the autism community has come to be judged for his complicity in the Third Reich.
Timothy Snyder’s new book looks at how democracies fall apart, and places blame on Russia as the current instigator.
The teenage protagonist of Ariel Dorfman’s novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” is made to atone for his ancestors’ crimes.
Doctors placed the French singer in a coma in 2016 and thought she would never wake up. But now she is back with a new album, and a memoir in English.
The narrator of Ian MacKenzie’s novel “Feast Days” has followed her banker husband to São Paulo. But the city and its people may be too much for her.
Known for politically charged social art, Marlene Dumas tries a new direction — Eros — inspired by Shakespeare.
The woman who made millions teaching America to cook dinner in a half-hour is facing 50, and a new digital world, with a pantry full of big plans.
“You Think It, I’ll Say It” revives the adolescent female archetypes of her novels, now grappling with adulthood.
In the third of four books addressed to his youngest daughter, Knausgaard returns to form, and to ruthlessness, writing to fight a familial legacy of alienation from the world.
Tara Westover’s memoir is our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
Some worry the themes in “George” are too advanced for elementary school children. Others love it for its message of inclusion.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
It’s supposed to be a compliment, but it saddles the work — and its audience — with the weight of moral imperative.
Adam Becker’s “What Is Real?” explores the controversy around quantum physics and its ability to describe anything definite about the world of atoms.
Don’t worry if you failed to appreciate the classics in your high school classroom: These novels — like their readers — only get better with age.
In “Warlight,” a man and his eccentric friends look after two teenagers in London after the children’s parents leave home for mysterious reasons.
Fiery passion and fierce disagreements roil “Love and Ruin,” the story of Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, the journalist Martha Gellhorn.
Clemantine Wamariya crisscrossed Africa with her teenage sister, enduring hunger, poverty, violence and trauma. Her memoir, “The Girl Who Smiled Beads,” recounts her journey.
Anshel Pfeffer’s new biography of the Israeli leader offers insights into how Benjamin Netanyahu sees the world.
He and a fellow college professor, Mike Wallace, spent almost 20 years producing their epic history of New York City, winning the Pulitzer Prize.