A poet’s letters; a collection of reminiscences.
The historian is on a mission to get the best and brightest out of their lucrative jobs and into morally ambitious work.
In “The Art Spy,” Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland.
Donal Ryan’s new novel focuses on a small community trying to leave behind years of economic woes.
Bibliophiles are creatively weaving bookstores into their engagements and nuptials.
His style as a poet and artist was informed by his upbringing in Shanghai and his years in Paris. He then joined the Pop-fueled studios of New York.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you’re conflicted about using an service you may rely on.
The author of influential books and essays, he was known for a contemporary theory of religion and Catholicism that advocated dialogue, not decrees.
The Pulitzer-winning presidential biographer discusses his new book about the life of a literary founding father.
Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ordinary grief memoir.
More than lying to the public, too many Democrats were lying to themselves.
Beyond disclosures about his sexuality and marriage, the media mogul’s memoir mostly serves up goodies for fans of Hollywood name-dropping and infighting.
The National Book Award-winning author teaches young readers a political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate.
In “Apple in China,” Patrick McGee argues that by training an army of manufacturers in a “ruthless authoritarian state,” the company has created an existential vulnerability for the entire world.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
His 12th solo album, “Golliwog,” arrives at a peak in his career as a verbally inventive, independent hip-hop artist. It’s also full of horror stories.
In a new book, Benoît Gallot explains what it takes to run Père-Lachaise, where he lives with his wife, children and, he insists, no ghosts.
With one hand, while standing. It’s the kind of accomplishment that would never make it into his new book, “Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups.”
A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place.
Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”
One of the first Iranian novelists to write in English, she examined the clash between East and West. Her debut novel, “Foreigner,” provided insight into pre-revolutionary Iran.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what consumers owe to artists.
Piensa en tu teléfono como un segundo equipaje de mano, con su propia lista de aplicaciones esenciales que deberías tener descargadas antes de viajar.
Five years later, she has a new novel, “Speak to Me of Home,” which draws directly from her family’s history in Puerto Rico and the Midwest.
A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global financial order.
Françoise Sagan’s first novel “Bonjour Tristesse” was published in 1954. With a new film adaptation, the book and its author still holds sway.
Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.
En ‘Original Sin’, los periodistas Jake Tapper y Alex Thompson rastrean los problemas que afectaron la presidencia de Biden y la desconexión del mandatario con el público estadounidense.
Why politics doesn’t necessarily ruin storytelling.
After collaborating on the script for “Bonnie and Clyde,” he went on to write and direct “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Places in the Heart.”
“Original Sin,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, depicts an aging president whose family and aides enabled his quixotic campaign for a second term.
Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents.
When a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto.
Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.
As President Trump pushes to end the Russian invasion, two books look at the paramilitary Wagner Group and consider the shape of global conflict today.
In “A Sharp Endless Need,” two female high school athletes get lost in a vortex of passion while grappling with deeper wounds.
In Kevin Wilson’s novel “Run for the Hills,” half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.
Certain lines in classic novels stand out. See how many you remember in this short quiz.
In her new book, “How to Be Well,” the writer Amy Larocca draws readers down a rabbit hole of serums, supplements and colonics. We know a lot of it doesn’t work. Why do we want it anyway?
“Fever Beach” is a wacky blend of Floridian farce and the perverse politics of our time.
A.O. Scott, who reviewed movies for The New York Times for more than two decades, is now a roving critic for the Book Review.
A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.
Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.
The satirical comedy about Hollywood is as much a send-up of the audience as it is of the industry.
The best art makes us question the received ideas we’ve internalized and, just maybe, offers us ideas for living differently.
En su nuevo libro, Ted Genoways explora la dramática vida del enigmático empresario que revolucionó la industria de la bebida en México.
A tale of pollen and prejudice, and more. (Achoo!)
Laurence Leamer, the author of “Capote’s Women” and “Hitchcock’s Blondes,” takes the measure of another powerful man and his female muses.
In Hilary Plum’s novel “State Champ,” a mediocre receptionist goes on a hunger strike — only to question the purpose of protest.
Our columnist on the month’s best releases.
The move is the latest denunciation by the Trump administration against anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.”
Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work “The First Kingdom” from no less a model than Homer.
It’s not too early to think about the season’s most anticipated titles.
Your bags may be ready to go, but do you really have everything you need? Here are some apps that can make your travels smoother, safer and more fun.
In “The Family Dynamic,” Susan Dominus examines what makes some families “exceptional.”
“The Village Beyond the Mist” may or may not have inspired the Studio Ghibli masterpiece, but it’s transporting nonetheless.
“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past.
En su nuevo libro, “Super Agers”, el cardiólogo Eric Topol sostiene que ahora disponemos de las herramientas para envejecer mejor que nuestros predecesores.
Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The newly restored house still conjures the designer’s unfussy elegance.
“Change the Recipe” es el nuevo libro del chef y humanitario. “Necesitamos más historias sobre la comida como diplomacia, la comida como derecho humano”, asegura.
In her new film, “Bonjour Tristesse,” and in her writing, the director Durga Chew-Bose knows how to create an atmosphere.
The best-selling romance author Carley Fortune recommends books whose high stakes and buried traumas make their love stories all the more satisfying.
“Good choice, Daddy. Very nice,” she said sarcastically, given what he was making for dinner. The chef and humanitarian’s new book is “Change the Recipe.”
In 1953, Ollie Stewart, a correspondent for The Afro-American newspaper, wrote a guidebook to the French capital aimed at Black travelers. Nearly 75 years later, his grandniece follows in his footsteps.
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
In a memoir that tries to wrest control of her story, Ms. Baldwin says she was “canceled” via online sleuths who looked for inconsistencies in her Spanish accent.
La no ficción y las novelas en las que no podemos dejar de pensar.
Need a last-minute Mother’s Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
Artificial intelligence software — some already free on your device — can quickly compose and edit documents. But be sure to check its work.
Mo Ogrodnik’s novel, “Gulf,” follows characters from different countries and classes confronting the region’s forced stratification into oppressor and oppressed.
A new book by the historian Ian Kumekawa tracks the varied career of a gigantic boat in an era of profound economic change.
The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.
As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural.
In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn’t agree on the three less-heralded finalists.
In “The Peepshow,” Kate Summerscale tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a sensational murder case that rocked 1950s London.
In his new book, “Super Agers,” the cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol argues that we now have the tools to age better than our predecessors.
In Franziska Gänsler’s novel, “Eternal Summer,” a tenuous bond forms between strangers stranded in a hotel as the world burns.
In “The Original Daughter,” the debut novel by Jemimah Wei, a Singaporean family craters under the weight of ambition, jealousy and things left unsaid.
In “The Manor of Dreams,” two sets of women navigate both a contested inheritance and paranormal activity after a devastating death.
A new novel considers the perplexing life and times of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who worked in the shadow of the Reich.
Una campaña para cambiar el nombre de las calles y retirar estatuas asociadas a la Rusia imperial está dividiendo a Odesa, cuya identidad está ligada a su historia.
“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.”
Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language.
Test your memory of this prolific American author and his era.
Jimmy Donaldson, known to his social media fans as MrBeast, is teaming up with the mega-best-selling thriller author.
A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history.
Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own sales force.
Sometimes I wonder, “Why did we have to wait this long?”
His White House advisers considered giving him such a test to prove his fitness for a second term, but they worried it would draw new attention to his age, according to a forthcoming book.
Tras años de tratamiento, la escritora Suleika Jaouad descubrió que tenía miedo a vivir.
In “The Dazzling Paget Sisters,” Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at the 20th-century figures with whom they cavorted.
In a new history, Ted Genoways explores the dramatic life of an enigmatic figure who revolutionized his country’s spirits industry.
A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.
Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.
The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.
Beloved characters are killed. Romances, too. But a subset of fan-fiction writers are taking matters into their own hands, “fixing” perceived wrongs.
In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.
In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian boarding schools.
Katie Mitchell’s photo book “Prose to the People” visits stores around the United States, from the 19th century to today.
Known for reinventing New York dining (and his blunt commentary on social media), Keith McNally doesn’t waste time lamenting, though the title of his memoir suggests otherwise.
The Netflix show “Adolescence” asks audiences to be OK with slower moments and small talk. Is that possible in 2025?
Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.
We’ve reached the last stanza of our adventure in verse. Now it’s time to show off what you’ve learned. As a bonus: our critic on why memorizing a poem is as much about what you forget.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The latest in the author’s Acoustic Rooster franchise, a PBS Kids special and series aim to teach children the beauty of collaboration and improvisation.
In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.
Among her other favorites: “Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s book.
In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.
One day remains to memorize this week’s poem. (You probably already know more than you realize!) Let’s stay merry.
People were deceived. Accusations of dishonesty and even illegality flew. But the man behind the book defends it, calling it not a prank but a “philosophical experiment.”
A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson.
In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.
In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.
Daniel Kehlmann wrote “The Director” only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.
Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
Our critic on the month’s best releases.
You can take a poem with you anywhere, but knowing its origins can help make it yours. Practice by playing our poetry emoji game.
The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.
Aunque el pontífice fue considerado reformador y modernizador, también protegió la doctrina de la Iglesia católica, bajo su propio estilo.
“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.
Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.
In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective.
The legendary football coach has never shared much with the news media, but on Sunday it was Jordon Hudson who shut down a line of questioning.
Try this short literary geography quiz.
In a foreword to a book, he articulated the church’s position on marriage.
Isabel Allende abandonó Chile en una época de gran agitación y desde entonces añora la nación de su juventud.
Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.”
What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?
Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada Limón.
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
The writer Colum McCann biked across America, searching for a God.
In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.
Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth — and fragility — of her new community.
A spare elegy; a weird journey.
Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America.
The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.
The writer Suleika Jaouad explores what she found on the other side of her fears.
Our columnist reviews this month’s releases.
Fue una gigante del género que publicó un centenar de relatos cortos y 17 novelas, una de las cuales fue adaptada en la aclamada película “La dama desaparece”.
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.