The liberal ideal is not an enemy of morality. It's a precondition for it.
Nicholas Wapshott’s “Samuelson Friedman” looks at a feud that continues to define the economic direction of the United States.
Stories about people trying something different in their lives have always inspired me. Now, the Times series It’s Never Too Late offers readers more examples.
With fresh material from bin Laden’s hide-out, Peter Bergen, in “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden,” gives us a three-dimensional portrait.
Three new books delve into the choices faced by modern families.
In “Ladyparts,” Deborah Copaken tells the story of her life through the lens of ailments, loss and struggle.
In “Billy Summers,” a hired killer and aspiring writer is lured from the brink of retirement with a lucrative assignment.
In “The President and the Frog,” by Carolina De Robertis, a thinly veiled version of a former Uruguayan leader reflects on a dark period in history.
In “Leave Society,” Lin’s new novel, a writer abandons speed, despair and his belief in Western medicine. But he still wants a fix, to fix himself.
Ash Davidson’s debut, ‘Damnation Spring,’ gets at a logging community’s deep roots.
Alexander Vindman’s memoir, “Here, Right Matters,” is not only a backstage account of the first impeachment proceeding but also a plea to Americans to do the right thing.
“Songs for the Flames,” by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, is a book about the power of secrets, held by characters touched by war and trauma.
Two memoirs, Anna Qu’s “Made in China” and Ly Tran’s “House of Sticks,” recount memories of abuse and family loyalty.
“The Luminous Novel,” by Mario Levrero, is a diary of a doomed project, one that leads the reader to surprisingly optimistic conclusions.
Josh Mitchell’s “The Debt Trap” traces the history of the student loan program, and where it went wrong.
What constitutes an emergency? That is one of the questions posed by Alexandra Kleeman’s latest novel, “Something New Under the Sun.”
In David Hoon Kim’s debut novel, “Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost,” a grieving expatriate looks for fulfillment in a city of longings and letdowns.
In “Agatha of Little Neon,” Claire Luchette’s winning debut novel, religious life collides with the pungent reality of the secular world.
In “Breathe,” Oates’s new novel, a woman navigates the shock and painful journey of a loved one’s terminal illness.
“Once There Were Wolves,” a new novel by Charlotte McConaghy, features a preternaturally sensitive wolf biologist, her traumatized twin sister, 14 gray wolves and a skeptical rural community.
In “We Are the Brennans,” Tracey Lange tells a yarn about an Irish American clan with a lot to hide.
In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Rebecca Donner writes about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American woman who was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime.
Three new books about affliction — Fred D’Aguiar’s “Year of Plagues,” Jan Grue’s “I Live a Life Like Yours” and James Tate Hill’s “Blind Man’s Bluff” — have a lot to say about desire, pain, depression and many other topics.
She represented Desmond Tutu and Deepak Chopra, but the book closest to her was the one she wrote about giving up her baby and then reuniting with him.
An account posing as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses” was mistakenly verified by Twitter.
Readers discuss a change for the worse with the rise of the Delta variant. Also: Summer fashion; reading in the pandemic.
In her new novel, “The Husbands,” Chandler Baker turns the Stepford formula upside down.
Published in Britain in 2012 but only being released in the United States for the first time now, “My Policeman,” by Bethan Roberts, depicts a passionate love triangle between a married couple and an older gay man in 1950s Brighton.
New novels by Tahmima Anam and Y.Z. Chin feature South Asian American women facing disadvantages in tech.
In her book, “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” Rebecca Donner examines the life of Mildred Harnack, part of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany.
Can farmers make money without wrecking the land? That’s the complex question James Rebanks tries to answer in his new book, “Pastoral Song.”
Dan Brown tiene un libro de consejos poco conocido. El problema es que parece que es casi imposible de comprar.
We rarely talk about spring books or winter reading. What is it about summer that inspired a whole genre of its own?
Alix Ohlin’s “We Want What We Want” and Genevieve Plunkett’s “Prepare Her” explore desire and alienation.
A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Vedic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide international readership.
Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.”
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Need a distraction? Three prickly, skin-crawling new thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat.
Maybe you should just surrender to the sweet slumber.
“The World Gives Way,” “The Chosen and the Beautiful” and “Sword Stone Table” borrow from familiar stories but offer surprising readings.
Her latest novel, “Something New Under the Sun,” imagines a highly imaginable California so ravaged by drought and wildfires that only the rich can afford to survive.
In “Maya and the Robot,” a shy brainiac finds, fixes and brings to life an artificially intelligent robot named Ralph.
Kwame Mbalia and 16 author friends, including Jason Reynolds, Varian Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Dean Atta and Jerry Craft, make an anthology.
He sought to revive and recount chapters of African American history that he felt weren’t taught enough in classrooms.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A look at this week’s popular novels reminds us that good writing runs in families, wet T-shirts attract attention and you can’t hide from your past.
“Holden Caulfield irritated me massively.”
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
After years writing nonfiction, he is now the author of a made-up tale about ghost-hunting that will only be sold as an audiobook.
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new books from Kristen Radtke and Lizzy Stewart, as well as a first graphic novel from Anne Carson.
Dan Brown has a lesser-known advice book. The trouble is, it seems impossible to buy.
Andrew Haswell Green accomplished a lot in 19th-century New York, but he was an enigma even in his own time. In “The Great Mistake,” Jonathan Lee imagines his way into Green’s mind.
Plays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.
In “Putting It Together,” James Lapine recounts how he and Stephen Sondheim created the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
A selection of recent titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
James Lapine’s book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic.
Over 45 years, his advice to Alaskans has changed with the transformation of the planet.
Buzzy new novels from Alexandra Kleeman, Leila Slimani and Stephen King, Billie Jean King’s memoir and plenty more.
In “Afterparties,” Anthony Veasna So, who died at 28 last year, reimagines California’s Central Valley through the lives of its Cambodian immigrants.
In a travelogue, Lisa Wells searches for communities and individuals committed to healing the damage of climate change.
People were dying all around me. So why was I escaping into tales of murder?
Jin’s new novel follows a Beijing opera singer who flees to the United States after he gets in trouble with the Chinese state.
In her new memoir, the “American Beauty” and “American Pie” actor opens up about years of sexual abuse and drug addiction, as well as an “eerie” moment with Kevin Spacey.
Killens’s posthumously released novel, “The Minister Primarily,” is a searing and satirical look at race in America.
Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place,” Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” are among the 13 novels nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
She fought anti-gay policies alongside Harvey Milk, wrote influential books, including science fiction, and founded a women-only refuge in the woods.
For his piercing insights on race and culture, Wesley Morris recently received his second Pulitzer Prize. But he won over colleagues long before that.
“Until Proven Safe,” by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, is about the lifesaving measure that has also been abused for political purposes over the centuries.
In a two-volume tome, the independent historian Yu Ruxin explains the crucial role of the military in Mao’s stormy Cultural Revolution.
The beloved children’s author and illustrator died in May. But his irrepressible spirit lives on in his books.
In “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes,” Rodrigo Garcia chronicles his parents’ final days, including his celebrated father’s struggle with dementia and his mother’s fierce independence to the end.
The disclosure of her relationship with a source while at The Philadelphia Inquirer ended her journalism career and prompted the paper to develop an ethics code.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Two new books, Eric Berger’s “Liftoff” and Tim Higgins’s “Power Play,” explore Musk’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial pursuits — and what has made him so successful.
Elisabeth Egan talks about Esther Freud’s “I Couldn’t Love You More,” and Philip D’Anieri discusses “The Appalachian Trail.”
Dip into these picture books about pools and beaches, swimming and sailing, calm waters and stormy seas.
In the 1940s and ’50s the Book Review’s pages were full of ads for books on the extraterrestrial and dystopian.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Politically speaking, we’re not served by our stewing.
Crown is publishing “Renegades: Born in the USA,” a book adaptation of the podcast conversations.
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.
A story that portrayed the police as wolves helped lead to the arrests of five leaders of a speech therapists’ union.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places in conflict produce fiction.”
In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.
Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and ...
Here’s a peek into the Book Review’s mailbag.
Brutal heat and deadly floods show a world unprepared to cope with extreme weather.
The Comedy Central stalwart debuted in July 1996. The creators Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead reflect on the early days, when “Dateline” was a main target and Jon Stewart took over from Craig Kilborn.
In her illuminating new book, Sarah Everts offers a guide to the necessity and virtues of perspiration.
Curious about creativity, she chronicled the lives of Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline du Pré, Samuel Goldwyn and Stan Kenton.
In “Better to Have Gone,” Akash Kapur writes about Auroville, a community in India founded by a Frenchwoman, where Kapur grew up and met his future wife.
In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Virtue,” by Hermione Hoby
An excerpt from “What Strange Paradise,” by Omar El Akkad
A trapped mom turns into an angry dog by night, an atheist lesbian poses as a Catholic receptionist, a 20-year-old woman suffers through domestic abuse.
In her new novel, “Virtue,” a white, liberal 20-something is torn between elitism and activism.
Omar El Akkad’s new novel follows a young refugee who survives a shipwreck and the girl who comes to his aid.
In “Intimacies,” a court interpreter at The Hague grapples with the ethics of the world around her.
In Pedro Mairal’s “The Woman From Uruguay,” a plan to smuggle some money into Argentina goes disastrously awry.
“The Howe Dynasty,” by Julie Flavell, adds nuance and complexity to the story of a famous English military family by examining the extensive correspondence of one of its female members.
In Nick McDonell’s new novel, humans are almost extinct. Now the animal kingdom must decide their fate.
In John Brandon’s new novel, “Ivory Shoals,” a boy in post-Civil War Florida searches for the father he has never met.
Penguin Random House said the book, tentatively coming in 2022, would be “an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time.”
He and his business partner started in a basement, recruited a Yale student cartoonist named Garry Trudeau, and built the largest company of its kind.
Anthony Veasna So died before the release of his first book, “Afterparties,” but his loved ones, mentors and newfound fans are making it a particularly significant debut.
In “The Cult of We,” Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell examine how WeWork’s Adam Neumann built a billion-dollar company simply out of renting communal work space.
A comedy web series hosted by a historical satirist explores overlooked ideas, people and events that continue to shape the United States.
Julie Brown's "Perversion of Justice" is a reminder of how much local news matters.
On social media, we are all hammers seeking nails.
Lolwe, Doek and other digital publications are helping to amplify new voices from the continent.
Fiction and nonfiction for the busiest, most distracted of listeners.
Authorities began confiscating a social studies textbook featuring a photo of Ms. Yousafzai, the education activist, after she questioned marriage norms.
If your idea of a great summer read involves murder, bloodshed, revenge and trickery, you’re in luck.
Making some order among the outcast, weird or just plain quirky.
Cosby discusses his new novel, and Dean Jobb talks about “The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream.”
“The Irish Assassins,” by Julie Kavanagh, recounts the birth of a violent Irish nationalist movement through a fresh history of the famous Phoenix Park killings in 1882.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“The Turnout” explores the darker, erotic side of professional dance.
A challenging discussion on the hard, and sometimes unanswerable, questions around racism and public policy.
Jeffrey E. Garten’s “Three Days at Camp David” returns readers to 1971 and Nixon’s momentous decision to take the United States off the gold standard.
In “This Book Is Feminist,” for young readers, the former director of the Feminist Press sees a movement without borders — and talks about her hair.
In “You Can’t Say That,” Leonard S. Marcus interviews 13 authors whose books for kids have been banned or challenged.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jörg Adolph uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize a German forester’s contention that trees are social, sentient beings.
“I Alone Can Fix It,” by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, and “Landslide,” by Michael Wolff, take different approaches to recounting the events of 2020 and early 2021.
Ms. Pavlin, a longtime editor at the publishing house who has worked with Ayana Mathis, Tommy Orange and Yaa Gyasi, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died in 2019.
As a publishing executive and as an author, she sought to make sure that all children saw themselves in what they read.
Georgina Pazcoguin, a New York City Ballet soloist, has written a page-turner of a memoir.
The unlikely hit on Apple TV+ begins its second season on July 23. Jason Sudeikis and his creative team told us how they made it happen.
In Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, a woman adrift takes a job at an international criminal court.
Masih Alinejad spoke critically of her native country’s autocracy. Now an Iranian intelligence official and three others have been indicted in New York.
A Cold War scholar, she met Oswald four years before Kennedy’s assassination and later wrote “Marina and Lee,” a book about him and his Russian wife.
Richard Zenith’s biography of the Portuguese poet, critic, translator, mystic and giant of modernism is a perceptive reading of the eccentric man and his abundant work.
In “Perversion of Justice,” Julie K. Brown expands on her explosive 2018 series for The Miami Herald on the notorious financier to explore how he was able to avoid criminal prosecution for sex crimes for so long.
In William Gardner Smith’s 1963 novel “The Stone Face,” a journalist sees parallels between French bigotry toward Arabs and his treatment at home.
An excerpt from “I Couldn’t Love You More,” by Esther Freud
Anuk Arudpragasam’s “A Passage North” traces a journey across a country reeling from a decades-long conflict.
“Elena Knows,” by the Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro, follows a woman impaired by illness on a quest across Buenos Aires.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Ecological disaster ties together the three strands of Matt Bell’s stark yet hopeful “Appleseed.”
“I Couldn’t Love You More” introduces three generations of women grappling with secrets, shame and an inexorable bond.
A new biography by Richard Zenith offers a sharper picture of the Portuguese master, who contained multitudes.
In “Rachel to the Rescue,” Elinor Lipman ushers readers into the Beltway with her signature blend of wit and charm.
These novels have roots in the good, the bad and the ugly parts of history.
Set in a fictional Chinese city, Yan Ge’s novel features a bestiary of mysterious creatures and a cryptozoologist narrator who is trying to study and classify them.
Joyce Maynard and Diane Johnson are both writing about women looking back on life. Luckily for their readers, the excitement continues.