A poet and memoirist as well, she drew a wide readership with her historical fiction, notably with a Civil War-era tale that was adapted for a movie starring Tom Hanks.
El “Cuento de Wade”, mencionado en los poemas de Geoffrey Chaucer, solo sobrevive en un fragmento minúsculo. Dos académicos sostienen que un error ahondó la confusión en torno a él.
Gibson, importante exponente del “spoken word”, insistía en que la poesía, especialmente cuando se leía en voz alta al público, era un acto político.
He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective as its antihero.
Readers respond to a Styles article about the reading habits of men. Also: Women’s choices; chatbots in toys; conservative professors.
Digamos que la perspectiva del hombre blanco heterosexual sí se está debilitando en el mundo de la ficción literaria. ¿Debería importarnos?
Perhaps the biggest effect A.I. will have on our lives is purely in giving us a new way to entertain ourselves.
Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access.
In Kerry Cullen’s uncanny debut, “House of Beth,” a queer 20-something finds that “straight” life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached.
Our critic on the month’s best new novels.
The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
In “The Club,” Jennifer Dasal investigates a refuge for (some) expat artists in the City of Light.
In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching,” a graduate student stumbles into a haunting conspiracy while researching a cult writer.
“Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.
The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after the fall of communism.
In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot’s marriage to “the publishing world’s P.T. Barnum.”
Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled sharp edges and melancholy resolutions.
France has produced many novels and stories that have gone on to become internationally popular musicals and movies. Try this short quiz to see how many you know.
To survive the dog days of summer, try reading one (or all) of these suggestions by writers, critics and editors at The Times.
“Bonding,” by Mariel Franklin, is a love story charged by the absurdities of a market-driven culture.
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, whose alumni include August Wilson, Jeremy O. Harris and Wendy Wasserstein, has given playwrights a place to take a risk for nearly 60 years.
Dino Buzzati’s best works evoke the fabulism, paranoia and allegory of writers like Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and Italo Calvino.
The crossover genre blending the passion of romance with the high-stakes escapism of fantasy has dominated the literary landscape. Here’s where to start.
He wrote about the elite cycling race for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. He said he was smitten by the Tour from the first day.
Kashana Cauley’s novel “The Payback” imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they’re into reiki.
A classic coming-of-age novel; a cultural history of early America.
In “Nothing More of This Land,” the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island’s Indigenous history.
Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.
In her new book, “A Marriage at Sea,” the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.
Whether you want a romance or family drama, she's written a book for you.
Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.”
“Mexican Gothic” was a breakout book for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who describes herself as “not a people person.” Her new novel is “The Bewitching.”
It plays a much smaller role in our national life, and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
With books like “The Mother Knot” and “Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness,” she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Hannah Pittard wrote a memoir about the breakup. When she learned that her ex planned a novel about it, she took it back up, this time as fiction (sort of).
“The Unraveling of Julia,” her 37th book, has taken the thriller writer into new territory: “I’m going Gothic, baby!”
The author and podcast host reveals how to let go of control.
A harrowing new book tells the story of the women determined to learn the fates of the babies born to their pregnant daughters in captivity.
How do six reporters share an article? Their editor explains.
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class.
Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.
Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.
Mr. Shteyngart was once told he might be. With his sixth novel, “Vera, or Faith,” out now, he’s spent the last few years spending it well.
Sarah MacLean’s “These Summer Storms” is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.
“2024,” a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.
“A Marriage at Sea” tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.
Aunque no estaban claros los detalles sobre cómo se generó el incendio, el vecindario se ha visto convulsionado por la violencia de las pandillas que ahora controlan la mayor parte de Puerto Príncipe.
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.
“Vera, or Faith” follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.
Literature is full of bold observations. See if you can match these five quotations to their sources.
After a friend’s death, a medieval literature professor learns to love the gym — and finds unexpected connections to his studies.
The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality of navigating environmental crisis.
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.
Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in “Culpability.”
Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three dystopian novels to read this summer.
The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer’s fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises.
We’re eligible for screening, but I don’t want anyone to panic.
Our columnist reviews recent releases.
With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.
He set his frequently neurotic characters in bleak, morally ambiguous situations where laughter, as he put it, “is a measure of the sickness of society.”
Artists including the musician John Grant have collaborated to find feelings beyond the words of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 book. Occasionally, they succeed.
Teri Kanefield’s “Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger question is whether it matters.
Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and a live-action movie.
She reads reviews online and passes off the opinions as her own.
Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs.
A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.
In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.
Our columnist on July’s most notable books.
He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.
In “The CIA Book Club,” Charlie English tells the story of America’s war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.
A childhood friendship in upper-class Beijing is tested by envy, ambition and relentless materialism.
Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.
In “The Beast in the Clouds,” Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow.
Readers react to the Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions. Also: A resignation at the University of Virginia; remembering Dachau.
Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the country’s formative years.
Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more.
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.
La influente, que sigue presionando a las marcas para que fabriquen tallas más grandes, acaba de publicar una nueva novela con una heroína de talla grande. También está adelgazando, pero eso no significa que ya no sea “corporalmente neutral”.
Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should have dealt with it sooner.
The 71-year-old supermodel, who recently published a memoir, discusses her marriages, relationships and heartbreaks. “I have enough self-esteem to know that in the right arms I’m lovable,” she said.
Our critic on the month’s best new books.
Our columnist on some stellar recent releases.
André Breton’s 1928 novel “Nadja” pays homage to a great love and to a great city.
The genre known as Boys’ Love, stories written mostly by and for straight women, has been in the authorities’ sights for years.
Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.
Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, celebrating its 100th anniversary, is the topic of this month’s discussion.
He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that stories with gay and transgender themes are discussed, the court ruled.
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Catch,” a psychological thriller about twin sisters and their mother, whom they had presumed dead.
“Mansfield Park” continues to complicate the writer’s legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel’s dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.
By foot, bike and MG, a writer undertakes a journey from Winchester to Canterbury, along a route taken since at least the 14th century.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Plus: a tranquil new hotel in Ojai, a design gallery in a Florentine palazzo and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Her 76 books included “Life as We Knew It,” a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.
Steve Mills has been collecting secondhand books in England to reawaken lost memories. His search revealed more about his family’s past than he thought possible.
The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that.
A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.
A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.
The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.”
“No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate,” says the fantasy writer, whose new book is “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.”
Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird’s satirical novel, “The Nimbus,” strains for the heavenly.
Along with some 100 images of everyday objects and scenes, “Point Blank” will include vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton.
“The Compound” takes place on the set of a deeply twisted reality TV show.
In “Make It Ours,” Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer’s short, historic career.
John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
Try this short literary geography quiz that takes you around the globe.
Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe’s licentious, ultraliberal capital.
In Leila Mottley’s new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to support one another.
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.
The influencer is still pushing brands to make bigger sizes and is publishing a new novel with a plus-size heroine. She is also losing weight, but that doesn’t mean she’s not “body neutral” anymore.
An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.
In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.
At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic.
Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.
8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.
And A.O. Scott on the joys inherent in giving poems a close read.
She channeled her experiences — and frustrations — as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an award-winning career as a television writer and producer.
A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.
In his candid memoir “Comedy Samurai,” the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end.
The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.
Amy Bloom’s “I’ll Be Right Here” zigzags between Paris and Poughkeepsie as it shares the saga of Algerian siblings and their chosen family.
Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha’s Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.
Abraham Chabon, a New York University student, is accused in a criminal complaint of sexual assault. He has pleaded not guilty.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Two veterans of Comixology, a site that the e-commerce colossus bought in 2014, are now starting a rival to compete with it.
No podemos escapar de la influencia de la élite tecnológica, y ahora, en relatos como “Mountainhead” y “Careless People”, imaginamos que ellos no pueden escapar de nosotros.
His works have been slow to come to stage and screen. But a new production of the novel “Giovanni’s Room” shows how rewarding it can be when done right.
These “Baroness von Sketch” alums think so, making it the main character in their new comedy.
With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.”
Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.
“I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his series on Greek mythology.
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
Heather Clark’s debut novel, “The Scrapbook,” considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.
Song and her husband fell for each other the first time they talked. But the Oscar-nominated director says she’s still just as confused as the rest of us when it comes to the mysteries of love.
In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.
In Karim Dimechkie’s “The Uproar,” the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.
Annual financial disclosures revealed some of the perks of being on the Supreme Court, including international teaching and book sales.
Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In “The Sisters,” Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.