Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Diversely casting fantasy series like “The Rings of Power” isn’t a betrayal of the story. It’s also just one step in opening up the genre.
“When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by the Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, argues that the legendary firm has accrued an inordinate amount of influence chasing profits at the expense of moral principle.
A deeply reported history of Covid-19; Maggie Haberman’s look at Donald J. Trump; stories by George Saunders, Alan Moore and Samanta Schweblin; and more.
In the studio, the best-selling author surrounded himself with people he loves. It shows in his audiobook.
Finding wonderful books that bring to mind old favorites is one of the genre’s greatest pleasures.
According to three debut novels: A house in the Hamptons, a mentor she can trust, to “be a slut.”
“I have kids and a dog,” says the Swedish novelist, whose new book is “The Winners,” “so my dreams of a reading experience are limited to just being left alone for 10 minutes just about anywhere.”
Una biografía no autorizada revela detalles íntimos y duros de la vida de la estrella de televisión, entre ellos su turbulenta relación con la actriz Asia Argento. Familiares y amigos han criticado el libro.
“Confidence Man,” Maggie Haberman’s biography of the former president, argues that it’s essential to grasp New York’s steamy, histrionic folkways.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The practice of making pajaki, the Polish folk art created to honor the earth, finds an unexpected revival.
Our reporters are keeping an eye on and an ear out for the buzz in their parts of the world.
Joanna Quinn’s “The Whalebone Theatre” breathlessly follows a trio of British youngsters from frolics on the beach to service and spycraft.
Igiaba Scego, an author born in Rome to Somali parents, recommends books that draw readers through the rich layers that make up her hometown.
In his new novel, “The Family Izquierdo,” Rubén Degollado follows the ups and downs of one Tejano family haunted by an enduring curse.
An essay celebrating the story’s 75th anniversary prompted an outpouring from our readers.
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel, “Best of Friends,” follows its title characters from their Pakistani girlhoods to their adult lives in London.
A new, unauthorized biography reveals intimate, often raw, details of the TV star’s life, including his tumultuous relationship with the Italian actor Asia Argento. And it’s drawing criticism from many of his friends and family.
In “Listen, World!,” Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert present a portrait of the pioneering journalist Elsie Robinson.
Laura Warrell’s debut novel, “Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm,” features a rugged trumpet player and all the women he disappoints.
In Kim Hye-jin’s “Concerning My Daughter,” an unnamed mother laments her adult child’s life choices, even as she takes her back in.
A new history by Donald Yacovone examines the racist ideas that endured for generations in educational materials.
To be read to is a form of holiness.
In Namwali Serpell’s novel “The Furrows,” a childhood tragedy brings a lifetime of strange encounters.
Special powers, avian obsession and visions of the future fuel these transporting and entertaining tales.
In “Stay True,” Hua Hsu, a staff writer for The New Yorker, recounts his relationship with an Asian American college friend, whose search for identity quietly shaped the author’s own.
Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director.
Part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again.
What gets this best-selling novelist going? Cappuccinos, movies with her grandchildren and her go-to notebook.
In Stephanie LaCava’s novel “I Fear My Pain Interests You,” a young actress manages the strains of family and failed romance.
Confronting sudden loss in her own life, Namwali Serpell has written “The Furrows,” a disquieting portrait of the human mind, warped by grief.
In this fizzy picaresque, the novelist conjures a London coming alive after World War I, where a nightclub empire offers refuge — and hides secrets.
Hilary Mantel brought great precision to her writing, and asked the same of us in our reading.
Looking for something to read? We’ve got plenty on offer this week, including Karl Ove Knausgaard, Maggie Nelson and Colm Toibin.
Joe Hagan discusses “Sticky Fingers,” his 2017 biography of Wenner, and a panel of Times critics talks about their 2019 list of outstanding memoirs.
A veteran art director, he was best known for his work at the lavish magazine of U.S. history that became a fixture in dens across the country.
In her memoir, “Making a Scene,” the actress reveals her isolation after those tweets, racism in her career and how she’s moving on.
In her memoir, “Making a Scene,” the actress reveals her isolation, racism in her career and how she’s moving on.
In Alaina Urquhart’s serial-killer thriller “The Butcher and the Wren,” a Louisiana forensic pathologist matches wits with a murderer.
Mantel’s body of work spanned memoir, short stories, essays — and, of course, historical fiction. Here’s a guide to her writing.
Can you find the titles of 10 books frequently challenged or removed from schools and libraries around the country?
The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
Nick Cave, religious cults and a dead mother-in-law who may or may not have come back to life: immersive narratives to download this month.
Nick Cave, religious cults and a dead mother-in-law who may or may not have come back to life: immersive narratives to download this month.
A West African girl thrust from her family’s private Eden confronts awful truths on the high seas in Timothée de Fombelle’s “The Wind Rises.”
In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Readers react to speeches by both leaders and speculate about the outcome of the conflict. Also: San Francisco’s fog; against censorship.
Among the well-wishers at Joan Didion’s memorial service in New York.
In “Killers of a Certain Age,” the longtime historical novelist dips a toe in contemporary waters — and celebrates an oft-ignored age group.
“I couldn’t read more than a page of ‘Last of the Mohicans,’” says the novelist, whose new book is “Less Is Lost.” “Not only is it wildly offensive, it’s unintelligible gibberish. There. I said it. Come after me.”
“Our Missing Hearts” explores a fictional world where Chinese Americans are spurned and books are recycled into toilet paper.
A leading 20th-century thinker, he published a landmark work at 32. Known for lecturing extemporaneously without notes, he dazzled colleagues with the breadth of his ruminations.
His career, ranging from literature to finance to war, and from France to Afghanistan, seemed to cover every interest and issue of his exalted social class.
In a new book, the historian Orlando Figes argues that the war on Ukraine is only the latest instance of a nation twisting the past to justify its future.
Giorgia Meloni, the nationalist politician who is the front-runner to become prime minister, sees “The Lord of the Rings” as not just a series of novels, but also a sacred text.
Stories set in China, the U.S. and Hong Kong are deadpan, dysfunctional, sentimental — and weird.
The trove of items deposited in Key West, now part of a new archive at Penn State, includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects.
“By Hands Now Known,” by Margaret A. Burnham, examines the chronic, quotidian violence faced by Black citizens in the American South — and the law’s failure to address it.
Edna O’Brien’s latest stage work, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, imagines the inner lives of important female figures around James Joyce.
A selection of recently published books.
He wrote groundbreaking histories of the Second Vatican Council, the late medieval church and the Jesuits, of which he was a member.
After leaving a law career to focus on fiction full-time, Jasmine Guillory is publishing her eighth novel, “Drunk on Love.”
In “Indigenous Continent,” Pekka Hamalainen aims to upend the nation’s grand narrative, putting Native people and Native power at the center.
The streaming service that transformed the music industry is expanding into audiobooks, and will offer more than 300,000 titles on a pay-per-book model.
In “Lady Justice,” Dahlia Lithwick celebrates the female lawyers, judges and others who stood up to the administration.
It’s the first book many babies receive as a gift, and one of the few that parents will keep when their child is grown. Why does this 75-year-old story have such staying power?
In “You’ve Been Played,” a self-identified gamer warns against the dangers of imposing artificial incentives on all aspects of our lives.
A lawsuit halts the city’s prohibition of the delicacy for now, David Joachim releases a new version of his “Food Substitutions Bible,” Steelport Knife Co. has a new bread knife with heft, and more.
A report from the free speech organization PEN America looked at the role of politics and advocacy groups in the growing number of book bans in schools across the country.
Three siblings reunite in Amanda Svensson’s turbulent novel “A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding.”
In her new poetry collection, “The Rupture Tense,” Xie peeks at the past — her family’s, and China’s — to examine the consequences of “how we see, what we see, and also what we allow to remain unseen.”
In “Less Is Lost,” the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel, the author’s writer protagonist, now over 50 and in need of cash, takes to the road once again.
“Getting Lost,” a diary by the French writer Annie Ernaux, recounts an all-consuming Paris romance.
Like many, the canine behavioral expert Alexandra Horowitz adopted a dog during the pandemic. She had extra incentive: understanding a puppy’s development. Now, she’s turned her observations into a book.
Andy Campbell details the history of an ascendant far-right group.
Charlotte Van den Broeck’s “Bold Ventures” is an idiosyncratic tour of architectural misfires, dotted with its author’s personal anxieties.
In “The Book of Goose,” a literary hoax devised by two teenagers closes the distance between fiction and reality.
Readers react to a dozen essays trying to answer “What Is School For?”
A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection.
In “The Complicities,” Stacey D’Erasmo introduces a woman who is rebuilding her life in the aftermath of her ex’s financial wrongdoings.
Luke Mogelson and Andy Campbell have followed groups like the Proud Boys for years. They are terrified at what they see as a growing threat.
A previously unpublished interwar novel by Simone de Beauvoir, how the world’s constitutions came to be and more.
The novelist discusses his Pulitzer-winning comedy about the travels and travails of a heartbroken writer, and William Finnegan talks about surfing.
A selection of books published this week.
Waiting for the Artemis 1 lunar mission to launch? Test your knowledge of nonfiction books about America’s history of space exploration.
To mark Banned Books Week, the American Library Association released a report on the rise in censorship efforts: In 2022, there have been attempts to restrict access to 1,651 titles.
“The Silent Twins,” a new film starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, sets out to show the complexity of twinship onscreen.
A civil rights advocate investigates.
The kids are back in their classrooms — but are they OK? These new titles can provide reassurance, advice and solidarity.
In “Lucy by the Sea,” Elizabeth Strout relocates a formerly married couple from Manhattan to Maine at the peak of the Covid pandemic.
Dan Gemeinhart’s latest book, “The Midnight Children,” is light compared with “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,” but weighty nonetheless.
“Moonflower,” inspired by the author Kacen Callender’s own struggles, is about helping young people to heal.
A “super scholarly sleuth,” he devoted 35 years to editing 30 volumes of the author’s books, essays, letters, diaries and manuscripts.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Join T Magazine and poet Morgan Parker for a virtual conversation on Oct. 27.
Behind the best-selling novelist Ilona Andrews are two people who live, work, lift weights and take care of their pets under the same roof.
New international fiction from Guadeloupe, the Canary Islands, Tahiti and Basque Country.
In Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel, “Lungfish,” a young family maroons itself on a deserted island where sustenance is whatever you can get your hands on.
“Luckily,” says the novelist and story writer, whose new book is the collection “Natural History,” “the kind librarian at the local Bookmobile let us take any books we could reach (I was ridiculously tall).”
In Deanna Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age,” four female assassins, celebrating their retirement after 40-year careers, discover they’ve been marked for death.
This poem begins with “suppose,” which unleashes a speculative imagination through which the speaker reawakens a dead father.
In “The Divider,” political journalists keep their cool as they chronicle the outrageous conduct and ugly infighting that marked a presidency like no other.
Ronald S. Lauder, the Estée Lauder heir, offered himself up as back-channel negotiator to purchase Greenland from Denmark, a new book says. Denmark said no.
For 50 years, her books have educated, entertained and connected young readers. Whether you want to revisit a classic or inspire a new fan, here’s what to read.
Writing and translating “The Backstreets,” a book about the oppressive environment faced by Uyghurs in China, was a danger to those involved.
Pajtim Statovci shares his love of Finnish literature and the books that helped him, a child of immigrants, to find his voice and grow from reader to award-winning writer.
The novelist Yiyun Li, known for her powerful distillations of personal grief, makes art from subverted expectations.
“Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf, paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics: brilliant intellectuals and poets who could also be petty, thin-skinned and self-involved.
In “The Village Idiot,” Steve Stern resurrects Chaim Soutine and the sordid eccentricities of his milieu.
Literary luminaries gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the organization at a moment when many see support for free speech eroding across the political spectrum.
Literary luminaries gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the organization at a moment when many see support for free speech eroding across the political spectrum.
In “The Long Alliance,” Gabriel Debenedetti traces how political leaders of different generations and contrasting temperaments helped each other succeed.
The jazz drummer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington’s latest project is “New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers,” a book due Friday, and an album featuring 11 of its selections.
In “Who’s Raising the Kids?” Susan Linn’s searing indictment of corporate greed, tech companies targeting children are rivaled only by the lawmakers who let them get away with it.
This affecting new cookbook includes mostly Eastern European dishes as well as first-person accounts of suffering and survival.
Andrew Sean Greer was elated, if a little confounded, when his 2017 novel “Less” received the award. Now he’s following it with a sequel, which he knows might raise some eyebrows. So what if it’s unseemly?
In “Lessons,” the hero is seduced by his piano teacher when he’s 14, then abandoned by his wife while he passively watches history unfold. Are these events connected?
In her Y.A. thriller “I’m the Girl,” Courtney Summers uses a murder mystery to explore pressing questions about female empowerment.
In his new collection, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” David Means derives power from revealing the workings of his craft.
In “Blood & Ink,” Joe Pompeo explores the gory Hall-Mills case and the tabloid nation it spawned.
In her memoir, “Dinners With Ruth,” the NPR journalist writes about their parallel ascents in fields that were not friendly to women.
Friedrich Schelling’s ideas might provide a foundation on which to anchor the fight for our climate and our survival.
At a time of social turmoil, Luke Mogelson’s “The Storm Is Here” explores how we got to this point.
Gwendoline Riley’s novels “My Phantoms” and “First Love” consider the sway and scourge of family ties.
A comprehensive study of human waste explores the possibilities for global health, inside every flush.
We’d always been listening.
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel in stories unfolds across centuries, continents, political parties and a tight group of friends.
In “The Mosquito Bowl,” Buzz Bissinger examines the Pacific theater through the lives of several athletes who served.
Autor de libros mayores como “Corazón tan blanco” y “Tu rostro mañana”, escribió una obra acogida por el gran público y también aclamada por la crítica.
A regular nominee for the Nobel, his books were as popular as they were lauded, filled with themes of mystery, betrayal and the moral weight of the past.
In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce.
Very hard, if Jonathan Dee’s new novel, “Sugar Street,” is any guide.
“Life’s Work” is a memoir of outrageous youth, creative obsessions and ruinous habits.
Kate Beaton headed to the tar sand fields of Alberta saddled with loans and in need of cash. She found a job — and the book she “was always going to make.”
An Oklahoma teacher left her job after she told her students how to access the library’s banned books program.
A los nueve años emprendió sin sus padres el viaje de El Salvador a EE. UU. El recorrido casi lo mata. Ahora cuenta la experiencia en sus memorias
Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward.
In his memoir, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine is serenaded by Springsteen, nursed by Midler and breaks bread with Bono. There’s journalism, too.
Sometimes, the most specific areas of coverage allow journalists to ask — and attempt to answer — big, universal questions.
The novelist talks about her Pulitzer-winning book, which includes one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, and Stephen Fry discusses Greek mythology.
Our critic recommends old and new books.
This fall, if you feel like you’ve seen that new series somewhere before, you’re probably right.
Tales about a sheep village resisting a wolf pack prompted the charges against leaders of a speech therapists’ union, extending a government crackdown on dissent.
The Rolling Stone founder talks about LSD, not reading the magazine anymore and how the Stones now look like “Lord of the Rings” characters onstage.
Nicola Yoon, the author of “Everything, Everything,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “Instructions for Dancing,” recommends a few of her favorite Y.A. love stories.
Kit Heyam’s “Before We Were Trans” spans continents and millenniums to prove that where there is humanity, there is nonconformity.