Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.
Recommended reading from the Book Review, featuring titles by Chelsea Manning, Werner Herzog, and more.
“Say Anarcha” is J.C. Hallman’s meticulous biography of the enslaved woman who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a lauded doctor.
In new crime novels from Victoria Kielland, James Wolff, Katie Siegel and Michael McGarrity, the past is hard to shake.
A selection of recently published books.
As you wait for the Tony Awards to start, try your hand at this literary title-search puzzle.
In diaries, articles and letters, he pushed for the medical community’s acceptance of men who were assigned female at birth and identified as gay.
A sequel to Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” new stories from Jamel Brinkley, a debut novel about a teenager who worked for Andy Warhol — and more.
Biographies of Anna May Wong and Alice Marble, a deep-sea exploration, a history of the race to the North Pole: Here’s what to watch for this season.
Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A new web publication from a founder of the print-only newspaper The Drunken Canal tries to make a splash in a space where giants have sputtered. Can it work?
Among the host of literary gatherings that have sprung up in the last 20 years, Calabash in Jamaica brings the party off the page.
In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.
A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.
In “You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live,” Paul Kix brings cinematic flair to the story of the civil rights leader’s risky 1963 campaign to integrate the city.
After decades of covering well-known people, the Washington Post columnist was inspired by a man who lived on his block.
Keziah Weir’s debut novel, “The Mythmakers,” is a fresh addition to the library of fiction about tortured literati.
“So many come to mind,” says the author, whose novel “The Rabbit Hutch” won a National Book Award last year and will be out in paperback this month. “I guess I’m often furious?”
The celebrated author wrote about having a breakdown. Only now do we know the full story of a moment that caused her to say she could feel the 1960s “snapping.”
The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine.
The new book by the political scientist Patrick J. Deneen proposes to replace the country’s “invasive progressive tyranny” with conservative rule in the name of the “common good.”
A new book by the British academic Rebecca May Johnson urges a radical rethinking of just what goes on in the kitchen. For starters, don’t call cooking a labor of love.
“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era.
In Cecilia Rabess’s novel, “Everything’s Fine,” a woman considers how to stay true to herself after she falls in love with her ideological antithesis and begins working in an industry she doubts.
Refuseniks in 1970s Moscow try to untangle an ax murder in Paul Goldberg’s new novel, “The Dissident.”
In the fictional city of Nevers, a stand-in for Hong Kong, an adulterous university professor is oblivious to the civic decay around him.
In “Fire Weather,” the journalist John Vaillant makes the case that the catastrophic — and inevitable — 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire was a sign of things to come.
In “A Flat Place,” Noreen Masud is drawn to the plains of England and Scotland to find healing.
In Aisha Abdel Gawad’s book, “Between Two Moons,” a pair of Muslim sisters navigate life, love and family in a world that is relentlessly suspicious of them.
In the novel “My Murder,” the victim of a serial killer finds that her second chance at existence comes with profound dilemmas.
In Javier Fuentes’s new book, “Countries of Origin,” an undocumented New York pastry chef must start his life over in Spain.
In Lisa See’s new novel, a doctor draws support from a variety of strong relationships — and from her own privilege.
In the “brutally honest” memoir “Pageboy,” the actor recounts the fears and obstacles to gender transition, and the hard-won happiness that’s followed.
En su nuevo libro, el senador estadounidense por Misuri alienta encontrar consuelo en el pasado para sanar y rescatar la hombría.
A playwright, novelist and poet, she was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism.
With a first novel that chronicles a love affair between two young men, 23-year-old Ani Kayode Somtochukwu asserts a commitment to “queer resistance.”
Looking for an entertaining book to take on vacation with you? This quiz has suggestions.
In “Chaos Kings,” Scott Patterson profiles the financiers who build their portfolios around daily losses, and — when disaster strikes — seismic gains.
In a new memoir, the historian Martha Hodes explores her recollections of being held hostage on an airplane in 1970.
“Be Mine” is the fifth book featuring Ford’s keen observer of American life, Frank Bascombe.
Peter Callahan, a filmmaker in Hastings-on-Hudson, is the writer, director and star of a movie that takes its entire story from one man’s afternoon walk around his town.
In one school district, the Bible and the Book of Mormon were flagged for “sensitive materials review.”
The tentative agreement includes improvements in wages and guardrails around artificial intelligence.
“Battle of Ink and Ice” revives the headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest — and which newspaper broke the news.
In a new novel by Andre Dubus III, a man searches for hope and dignity after a long run of misfortune.
In “Lucky Dogs,” Helen Schulman spins a #MeToo case into an irreverent but surprisingly sympathetic look at two women on opposite sides of a sexual assault scandal.
An artist refashions herself amid personal and global crises in Deborah Levy’s new novel, “August Blue.”
An editor recommends old and new books.
Before she was an iconic first lady, Jackie was a clever “Camera Girl.”
“The Postcard” by Anne Berest makes clear the urgency of third-generation Holocaust storytellers.
In “The Whispers,” Ashley Audrain explores the combustibility of secrets and rage among mothers in a small community.
In “Messalina,” Honor Cargill-Martin looks at the limited evidence with empathy, arguing that a notorious empress was also a canny politician.
In her new novel, “The Wind Knows My Name,” the prolific author introduces characters who narrowly survive real-life events.
Recommended paperbacks from the Book Review, including books by Patrick Radden Keefe, Emma Straub and more.
Larry Rohter’s “Into the Amazon” celebrates the exploits of Cândido Rondon, the trailblazing explorer, scientist, statesman and more.
Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-winning critic, discusses the book she has read the most over the course of her life — Toni Morrison’s classic novel of slavery and trauma.
A lawsuit says the edict “forces bookstores and libraries to self-censor in a way that is antithetical to their core purposes.”
Martinus Evans wants to make running more inclusive. His new book beckons back-of-the-packers to lace up.
The author writes about “the body in the world.” In her new book “August Blue,” she explores the split self via the story of a woman confronted with her double.
The honesty and power of the singer’s accounts of abuse in the ’80s resonated with generations of women. Many saw pieces of her story in theirs.
A new book of photographs by Larry Sultan captures recreational swimmers at public pools in 1970s and ‘80s California.
Henry Hoke’s latest novel, “Open Throat,” follows an observant — and starving — cougar living in the Los Angeles hills surrounding the Hollywood sign.
Decades after “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” an anthology and a novel let readers see periods through the eyes of diverse protagonists.
Stephen King reviews S.A. Cosby’s latest novel, “All the Sinners Bleed.”
A selection of recently published books.
The vote, after the union representing striking writers urged opposition, can be overruled by the streaming giant’s board of directors.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Adamantly progressive, openly gay and politically fearless, he cast a sharp eye on the country’s post-apartheid politics and culture.
The art collective KIRAC was embroiled in court battles over a film about the author’s sex life. Is the dispute a performance? A marketing stunt? Or a genuine cultural feud?
The long-running comic strip by Alison Bechdel, the creator of “Fun Home,” first held up a mirror to its queer readership in 1983. So what does a new audio adaptation have to say to listeners today?
In “The Elissas,” the journalist Samantha Leach recounts cases of addiction and death among America’s most privileged class.
In “My Hijacking,” Martha Hodes reconstructs the dramatic 1970 seizure of multiple planes by Palestinian militants — and interrogates her own memories as a hostage.
Elliot Page discusses his gender transition in a new memoir, and S.A. Cosby returns with a police thriller. Also: New Lorrie Moore!
I watched how corporate greed devoured my father’s life. So the writers’ strike feels personal to me.
Through the Young Editors Project, the author puts drafts of a work in progress in the hands of people it’s intended for.
The state of manhood has become one more front in our culture wars, a debate that keeps breaking down along political lines, even as men themselves just keep breaking down.
“There is an existential malaise that can come with chasing your dreams,” says the crime writer, whose new novel is “All the Sinners Bleed.” “After you grab the brass ring, what do you do with it?”
“The Italian Lesson,” to be published on Substack over the next year, follows an American expat who finds love in Tuscany. And there’s no mention of Donald J. Trump.
A new book by Scott J. Shapiro, a law and philosophy professor at Yale, examines breaches of cybersecurity and their implications for keeping information safe.
Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart.
Books by Izumi Suzuki, Theodore McCombs, Katherine Heiny and Steven Heighton.
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
Check out the new Carnegie Hill spot by Sasha Zabar, read a new book on the chef Eduardo García’s life, and more food news.
Be an armchair traveler and try this quiz about novels set on the other side of the Atlantic.
In Jon Michaud’s “Last Call at Coogan’s,” the author pays tribute to an unlikely institution, and the community it sustained.
A candid new memoir by Geena Rocero, a model and producer who started her career on the pageant circuit in her native Philippines, recounts the pleasures and pitfalls of living openly.
In her debut novel, “Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea,” Rita Chang-Eppig resurfaces the story of the famous pirate who ruled the South China Sea in the early 19th century.
“The Light at the End of the World,” by Siddhartha Deb, follows truth seekers in a world of conspiracy, intrigue and violence.
Binyavanga Wainaina attacked insulting clichés in the essay, “How to Write About Africa,” in 2005. In a posthumous collection of the same name, his range as a writer is on display.
Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city’s traditional eating and drinking culture.
Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel “Kairos” folds intimations of German history and cultural memory into a torrid romance.
The show captured the terrifying, mesmerizing interplay between fact and fiction and turned it into great television.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has released a memoir, “Easily Slip Into Another World,” and a new album, “The Other One.”
New books by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu, Sarah Cypher and Wiz Wharton showcase young women embarking on journeys of discovery around family and self.
The “true story” of a woman with multiple personalities was a 1973 sensation and is still in print 50 years later. Why do such lurid tales hold their grip?
His two-volume study, written with Robert W. Fogel, used data to challenge commonly held ideas about American slavery, including that it was unprofitable and inefficient.
Some Hollywood producers dream of a future in which chatbots do the writing. Be careful what you wish for.
Prizes feel great. They also don’t change anything.
As A.I. grows, this is no time to discard the humanities.
In his new essay collection, “The Male Gazed,” the writer and film critic Manuel Betancourt explores society’s portrayals of masculinity.
Domenico Starnone’s novel “The House on Via Gemito” is a searching work of autofiction about a family in postwar Naples.
If work for companies like Uber and Lyft once carried some appeal for offering flexibility, the kind of labor it has come to represent is now used by some as shorthand for a raw deal.
There’s a reason great TV endings are often the most elusive endings of all.
The Dallas school district apologized for not providing guidance to parents when it sent students home with a book that teaches how to respond to dangerous situations at school.
The Times critics Dwight Garner and Jason Zinoman celebrate the life and work of the great British novelist and literary critic, who died last week.
Here are 47 literary escapes to take this season. Just add sand, sunscreen and a hot afternoon.
Selected reading from the Book Review, including "Magpie by Elizabeth Day, Linda Villarosa's "Under the Skin" and more.
Our columnist looks at a clutch of summer crime novels, including “I Didn’t Do It,” set at a mystery writers’ conference.
Our columnist on “Death Watch,” “Going Zero” and other pulse-pounding summer novels.
These books rewind time, depositing readers in the Cumbrian countryside, coastal Maine, rural Wyoming and beyond.
Our columnist recommends six dreamy new romance novels.
New novels by Fonda Lee, Martha Wells, Nick Harkaway, Kelly Link and Emma Törzs.
Five new audiobooks to download this summer include a breakdown of quantum computing and a tribute to Mary Oliver.
These five novels go well with sand, sunscreen and hot afternoons. (Landlocked on a rainy day? That works, too.)
If your idea of a good summer read involves abject terror, we’ve got some recommendations for you.
Gabrielle Zevin didn’t expect a wide audience for “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” her novel about game developers. It became a blockbuster with staying power.
In Mieko Kanai’s 1997 novel, newly translated into English, a wife and mother’s monotonous days are punctured by quiet revelations.
Burhan Sönmez, who is president of PEN International, discusses the tension between politics and art and the role of literature in authoritarian societies.
Workers from other unions have shown solidarity with the strikers, catching entertainment companies off guard.
We have a long history with various forms of sub-national authoritarianism.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Readers responds to a column by Michelle Goldberg. Also: Amanda Gorman’s poem, restricted; George Santos; the rubble of Bakhmut, Ukraine.
The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish “The Sweet and Sour Animal Book” in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time.
Stephen L. Carter’s 1991 book was remarkably prescient.
“Good Night, Irene,” a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea, sends two female volunteers to the Western Front.
In Megan Abbott’s new novel, “Beware the Woman,” a romantic dramedy morphs into horror.
In her No. 1 best-selling picture book, “A Day With No Words,” the debut author shows an average day in the life of a boy who has autism.
“Indeed, the two have a lot in common!” says the author, whose new novel is “The Late Americans.”
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was “better suited” for older students after a parent complained about it.
The noted designer of the High Line has wisdom to share with other gardeners: “I put plants on a stage and let them perform.”
“Gone to the Wolves” follows three young Floridians shredding their way through the heavy metal scenes of the 1980s and ’90s.
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her mother to cancer at 8 and was kicked out of her high school and her home at 16. “Women We Buried, Women We Burned” chronicles her quest to create a fulfilling life on her own terms.
A company is republishing books that have fallen out of print and finding new ways to market works that are years, even decades, old.
In “Genealogy of a Murder,” Lisa Belkin maps the meandering roads that wound through families and decades before intersecting in tragedy.
A selection of recently published books.
Wendy Lu, an editor at The New York Times, shares her strategies for taming anxiety.
Georgi Gospodinov’s acclaimed satire, translated by Angela Rodel, is the first Bulgarian novel to win the prestigious award.
The screenwriters’ strike threatened next month’s broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry. That’s when leading dramatists sprang into action.
“These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse.
An ambitious new book by Victor Luckerson traces the history of Greenwood, Okla., from its prosperous early days through the 1921 race massacre and its aftermath.
Elliot Ackerman’s alternate history reimagines the politics and science of the early 21st century.
A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear.
In Melissa Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River,” we meet the two scientists who explored unknown terrain — and broke barriers.
In Laura Kay’s new novel, “Wild Things,” a timid young woman embarks on a year of adventure, only to stumble into romance along the way.
The U.S. Department of Education reached a settlement with a Georgia school district after launching an investigation into whether book removals created a hostile environment for students.
As a psychological coach (and ex-player), he helped revive a woeful Cleveland baseball team. He had a WFAN show about youth sports and shepherded best sellers.
Sip tea or purchase some to go at Genesis House Restaurant, pick up a lavender cream mille crêpe cake from Lady M, and more food news.
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
This Nobel Prize-winning author has had several novels adapted for film and television. Do you know who it is?