Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.
Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.
In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.
In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, we’re diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says we’re not tough enough on Trump.
In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.
And I couldn’t believe a piece of him still existed in this world.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A charter school named for Earl Monroe is dedicating a new building, which features a basketball-and-book-themed mural.
A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.
Artist, novelist, playwright, wrestler, fashion muse — the Rosalyn Drexler rediscovery is on (again).
For her follow-up to “Lessons in Chemistry,” she’s written a novel about poetry editors, one of whom is a “typeface connoisseur.” On the other hand, don’t get her started on clowns.
The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on “Moby Dick.”
The restaurant Rules is an institution. Now the National Trust, which preserves Britain’s heritage, plans to safeguard the landmark.
Ms. Rooney and her publisher said that she could no longer receive royalties from British sales because she pledged to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in Britain.
Three thieves broke into a private museum in central France and took off with a 330-pound book cover created by the surrealist master Salvador Dalí.
Emmanuel Carrère’s latest book combines a nuanced portrait of his formidable mother with a meditation on the fraught nature of truth.
A new biography argues that the artist famous for haunting canvases of solitary figures in late-night diners was deeply influenced by his times.
In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.
The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.
Min Jin Lee, the author of the new novel “American Hagwon,” breaks down the phenomenon of young children living far from home that inspired one of the characters in the book.
How the creator of “The Lowdown” and “Reservation Dogs” is telling the stories of America with a little help from his friends, family and heroes.
In a 1999 book, she chronicled the spy agency’s secret backing of Cold War culture projects to manipulate public opinion against Communism in Western Europe.
Breaking a weekslong silence, Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian writer, still rejected accusations about his new novel, ‘It Was Either That or Die.’
Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.
In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.
A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.
In her latest book, “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters considers the seemingly neutral background of daily life.
Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.
Before John Berendt wrote his classic “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” he trained his keen eye on men’s wear and manners in a long-running Esquire column.
Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.
Making a book of my dad’s train photos shifted my gaze away from all that he was losing.
Mo Crist has three family goals, but financing them is a tricky proposition in an expensive city like New York.
Her 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.
In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.
A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.