In a new memoir, “Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note,” the Stax studio wizard and acclaimed producer tells his own story and finds his voice.
With recovery no longer so secret, a new wave of plays dealing with its realities has started to emerge. Some of the playwrights have drawn from their own lives.
We live in an age that is losing the capacity to distinguish art from ideology and artists from politics.
“I’m a very organized bloke.”
In “The Problem With Everything,” the essayist Meghan Daum scrutinizes the resurgent women’s movement, uncovering a nexus of social justice activism, marketing and empty rhetoric.
In “A Tall History of Sugar,” Curdella Forbes uses skin as a prism to examine color, race, colonialism, heritage and — most important — love.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates to Terese Marie Mailhot to Imani Perry, writers are letting their audiences eavesdrop on private conversations. Parul Sehgal asks what it means.
In her new audiobook “Self-Tanner for the Soul,” the quasi-reformed party girl tells listeners that you can, in fact, run away from your problems.
“Catch and Kill” was pulled from two of Australia’s biggest online book retailers amid legal threats from the former National Enquirer editor who features prominently in the book.
The filmmakers Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco will be awarded the first Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, which comes with a $200,000 finishing grant.
With his prodigious memory and ardor for literature, the uncompromising highbrow sought to hoist his readers up to the level of what he saw as the greatest books.
No really, it is. In his new book, “The Body,” Bill Bryson explains why — and how we can take better care of the skin we’re in.
Steven Levingston’s “Barack and Joe” looks at a relationship that continues to influence American politics.
Elizabeth Strout, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Olive Kitteridge,” has written a sequel, “Olive, Again.”
“Reality fiction” is a publishing sensation in Norway. But some have accused the country’s most high-profile writers of revealing intimate secrets under the guise of fiction.
Peter Handke, the Austrian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is an apologist for Slobodan Milosevic.
In “Felon,” his third collection, Reginald Dwayne Betts leads readers through the underworld of incarceration.
Azra Raza’s “The First Cell” poses hard questions about cancer treatment and end-of-life care.
In her memoir, “Wild Game,” Adrienne Brodeur breaks free from her beautiful, charismatic mother, a textbook narcissist.
This was the case for Axton Betz-Hamilton, who grew up to become an identity theft expert and tells the bizarre story of her mother’s crimes in her new memoir, “The Less People Know About Us.”
Ashley Wurzbacher’s debut, “Happy Like This,” is among this fall’s standout story collections.
In “No Stopping Us Now,” the Times columnist takes a jaunty look at the place of older women throughout America’s history.
The narrator of Edna O’Brien’s novel “Girl” is kidnapped by jihadi fighters in northeastern Nigeria. She returns home bearing a jihadi’s child.
A selection of recent poetry books; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Deborah Levy’s latest novel, “The Man Who Saw Everything,” experiments with time travel, history and the endless complications of love.
Tommy Orange, the award-winning author of “There, There,” recommends his favorite books by Native writers.
The judges rebelled against the literary prize’s rules and awarded it to “The Testaments” and “Girl, Woman, Other.”
In “Rusty Brown,” Chris Ware spans lives, generations and even universes. But somehow all roads lead back to Nebraska, where he grew up.
Called the most notorious literary critic in America, Professor Bloom argued for the superiority of giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka.
Robert Bilott was a corporate defense lawyer when a stranger shared a theory about why his cows were dying. “Exposure” is his story of what happened next.
In “Erosion,” Terry Tempest Williams delivers a clarion call for decency, humanity and preservation.
TheaterWorksUSA has brought a best-selling children’s book series to the stage in a bubbly, puppet-filled musical.
NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, in a detailed memo to employees, described the book as a “smear” and a “conspiracy theory.”
NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, in a detailed memo to employees, described the book as a “smear” and a “conspiracy theory.”
The best-selling author and illustrator shows us around her Brooklyn studio.
“Self-Portrait in Black and White,” by Thomas Chatterton Williams, is the author’s searching account about what it means to embrace a racial identity — and then to cast it off.
As an editor he championed writers, like Judy Blume, who changed the landscape of literature for young people. He later became a writer himself.
Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill,” the Nobel Prize for Literature and more.
John le Carré takes aim at Brexit and Boris Johnson in his new novel, “Agent Running in the Field.”
Should an author’s family have a say in what the author chooses to write about them?
In new graphic novels (one by Kristen Gudsnuk, the other by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham), the key to middle school relationships is being true to yourself. If that fails, try magic.
In new books from Elisha Cooper, Oge Mora, Joo Hee Yoon and more, kids, adults and creatures blow off steam and let it all hang out.
An expert shares the tricks of her trade.
Farrow writes that NBC tried to shut down his reporting about sexual assault and harassment allegations against the Hollywood producer.
What is it really like to love, work and struggle in the Sunshine State? The characters in a new wave of books and TV shows have not just survived — they’ve thrived.
Books by Suze Orman, Dave Ramsey and Robert Kiyosaki don’t tell us much about investing, our reviewer says, but their counsel still has value.
Lizabeth Cohen’s “Saving America’s Cities” recounts the career of the grandly ambitious urban planner Edward J. Logue.
When Olga Tokarczuk of Poland won the prize, the reaction was as divided as is the country itself. To some, she is an eloquent writer who captures Poland’s tragic history. To others, she is a traitor.
Amaryllis Fox opens up about espionage, government-issued sex and coming of age in her memoir, “Life Undercover.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Ms. Ruhl, who learned she had Bell’s palsy in 2010, will explore her struggle with the condition in a book.
In “Antisocial,” Andrew Marantz traces the disheartening evolution of social media from the land of the free to the home of the depraved.
The rock star’s memoir, “Me,” traces his path from suburban homebody to superstardom and beyond.
The 2018 and 2019 laureates were named at the same time because last year’s prize was postponed over a scandal involving a husband of an academy member.
The 2018 and 2019 laureates were named at the same time because last year’s prize was postponed over a scandal involving a husband of an academy member.
Rice’s memoir, “Tough Love,” relates the many battles she fought inside the Clinton and Obama administrations.
The Y.A. author, whose novel “Looking for Alaska” has just been adapted for a Hulu series, says “young people are thinking about so many important questions, about love and meaning and justice.”
“The Man Who Saw Everything,” which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, looks at masculinity through the perspective of a young historian who sneers at “authoritarian old men.”
In his poetry, as well as in his prose, he conveyed the complexities of his city and his country.
A teenage chambermaid living under the rule of Francisco Franco fights for justice, and finds love, in “The Fountains of Silence.”
The star of two uproarious Netflix comedy specials is nervous about how people will react to her essay collection. “I hope my siblings don’t get pissed at me,” she says.
Mikhal Dekel’s “Tehran Children” tells the story of the extraordinarily hazardous journey made by hundreds of Jews from Poland to Iran to Palestine.
In her bracing new memoir, “Horror Stories,” the rock star focuses on small, intense, un-rock-star moments.
Christopher Wylie’s “Mind____” and Brittany Kaiser’s “Targeted” tell of how the company harvested data from millions of Facebook users and attempted to influence voter behavior.
The critic A.O. Scott reflects on the outsize influence Sontag has had on his life as a critic.
How Ben Lerner reinvented the social novel for a hyper-self-obsessed age.
He authenticated the oldest written manuscript in the Americas and proved that the Maya written language was surprisingly complex.
“Ninth House,” her first adult novel, is set at Yale, where something has gone wrong — very wrong — with the university’s secret societies.
The kids in “Look Both Ways,” a National Book Award finalist, share hustles, jokes, video games, board tricks, secret messages and private dreams.
Readers discuss the conflict between long-held expectations of audience behavior and changing times. Also: #MeToo in teaching; the failure of our prisons.
Books by Marlon James, Sarah M. Broom, Yoko Ogawa and Jason Reynolds are among this year’s finalists.
“Infused: Adventures in Tea” follows Henrietta Lovell around the globe in search of quality leaves and people who know that good tea is as fine as good wine.
Mahir Guven’s novel, “Older Brother,” traces the colliding fates of two young men, the sons of an immigrant taxi driver in Paris.
In her first story collection, “Grand Union,” the British novelist moves beyond traditional narrative into the surreal, the essayistic, the pointillist.
“The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit,” a new biography by Eleanor Fitzsimons, is an admiring portrait of the author of “The Railway Children” and dozens of other books.
In “How We Fight for Our Lives,” the poet Saeed Jones recalls a coming-of-age marked by sexual violence and bigotry as well as tenderness.
Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays examine subjects across the millenniums, from Sappho and Euripides to “Game of Thrones.”
Jon Clinch’s new novel, “Marley,” is a noirish prequel to “A Christmas Carol,” revealing just how Scrooge became, well, Scrooge.
“Border Wars,” by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, details the administration’s draconian immigration policies.
In Megan Phelps-Roper’s “Unfollow,” a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church relives her extremist childhood.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
With “Deep State,” James B. Stewart adds his voice to the conversation about the 2016 election. His scapegoat: the F.B.I.
A 35-year-old journalist responded to her diagnosis with questions — lots of them. In “Radical,” she delivers the facts and the story of her treatment.
Steve Vogel discusses his new book, about the digging of a tunnel under Berlin to intercept communications to and from Moscow in the 1950s.
In his poems, essays, short stories and novels, he highlighted the differences between East and West Germany, even after the Berlin Wall fell.
The creators of “The Lightning Thief” musical may have added songs to the Percy Jackson story, but they’re not about to make the movie’s mistakes.
Don Brown’s graphic nonfiction book “Fever Year” skillfully brings young readers directly into the (gruesome) action.
In Steve Sheinkin’s thrilling “Born to Fly,” the mechanical hurdles seem hard enough. Then comes the nonstop scolding.
“Imaginary Friend,” a mash-up of horror, fairy tales and the Bible, takes us inside the mind of a very good 7-year-old boy surrounded by darkness.
Two years after the rise of the #MeToo movement, educators continue to grapple with how to deal with writers and artists accused of abuse.
Jeanette Winterson’s “Frankissstein,” a nod at the 19th-century classic, fizzes with ideas and originality.
“Who Is an Evangelical?,” by Thomas S. Kidd, and “The Immoral Majority,” by Ben Howe, examine the politics of the religious right.
Andrew Marantz weaves together profiles of online extremists with his memorable and often surreal reporting experiences.
Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech, now has a recipe to free you — even though it was your fault to begin with.
Ben Lerner’s new novel, Lupita Nyong’o’s reading habits and more.
Why it took me more than 20 years to tell my #MeToo story.
Adam Grant on why we need to rethink ‘The Giving Tree,’ plus more from NYT Parenting this week.
Prolific and multifaceted, she took inspiration from her Jewish heritage and the Russian women whose work she translated.
Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.
He wrote and illustrated more than 40 children’s books, many of which dealt with the messy business of being human.
The Hollywood legend gets real — really real — on fame, family, love and what it was like to write a book.
Garth Risk Hallberg discusses Lerner’s “The Topeka School,” and Bari Weiss talks about “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”
At this literary festival, a library card is the only ticket you need.
The multitalented star of the new movie “Lucy in the Sky” recites a work by Ed Bok Lee.
A guilt-ridden female sheriff polices a Southern town while a bad-boy bruiser ventures into Minnesota’s academia. And two sleuths tussle over a London corpse.
In Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel, 5-year-old Jack is held captive in a small room with his mother. Aimee Bender reviewed it.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The veteran investigative journalist was heckled and called out online for his many interruptions of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey at an event in Washington.
Governments are spending a remarkable amount of resources attacking books — because their supposed limitations are beginning to look like ageless strengths.
Steven Greenhouse’s “Beaten Down, Worked Up” traces the modern history of American workers and their current condition.
The Oscar-winning actress, whose new children’s book is “Sulwe,” enjoyed “Fifty Shades of Grey” during filming: “I needed something light and inconsequential to take me out of the harshness of the world.”
Our columnist Jaime Green looks at new books by Kerrigan Byrne, Jane Ashford, Rachel Spangler and Rebecca Zanetti.
The writer Mariko Tamaki will curate Surely Books, a new line from Abrams that will begin publishing in spring 2021.
Nostalgia for 70s era bohemia runs high.
In his third novel, “The Topeka School,” Lerner revisits the precocious poet of his earlier work, this time as a morally confused Midwestern teenager.
Leigh Bardugo, the author of best-selling books like “Shadow and Bone” and “Six of Crows,” has written “Ninth House,” which features occult versions of the secret societies at Yale.
Originally sold to a private buyer in the U.S., the book used in the obscenity trial about D.H. Lawrence’s novel was acquired by Bristol University after a fund-raising campaign.
The poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose new collection is “Felon,” on the writer who helped him come to terms with himself.
An excerpt from ‘She Was Like That,’ by Kate Walbert
In Kate Walbert’s story collection “She Was Like That,” the love of women for their children can provide salvation or a trap. Or both.
Biker gangs, demented merry-go-rounds, haunted bookmobiles, dead lake monsters: You’ll find them all in “Full Throttle.”
Ben Lerner’s third novel draws on autobiographical details, like his previous two did, but offers a more conventional plot about a family in Kansas and the coarsening of political language.
In her second collection, “Make It Scream, Make It Burn,” the author of “The Empathy Exams” wages a journalistic battle between sentiment and detachment.
New poetry collections from Hanif Abdurraqib, Maya Phillips, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Daniel Poppick and Alexandra Teague.
New books describe the architecture of (near) impossibility, both real and imagined.
A crop of publishers offers would-be authors very low or no advances, and may ask them to forgo royalties or sign nondisclosure agreements.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
New novels from abroad include a Northern Irish homage to the “Iliad,” a Norwegian family drama and an Italian dystopian tale.
“Plagued by Fire,” Paul Hendrickson’s biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, attempts to show the fundamental decency of a man history has portrayed as both a genius and a monster.
Set in the months surrounding the 2016 election, Carol Anshaw’s novel “Right After the Weather” features a witty woman puzzled by her own heroics.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s thriller explores the ripple effect of a lie told by a lonely teenager.
“Frankissstein” combines a story involving Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein,” with a contemporary plot about artificial intelligence and sex dolls.
In her memoir “Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl,” Jeannie Vanasco seeks answers to her trauma.
Andy Brennan, a cidermaker in the Hudson Valley, has written a how-to of sorts on his craft.
A novel recreates the murder case that helped overturn that country’s death penalty.
Akwaeke Emezi’s “Pet” tells the story of a trans girl who knows that evil is still lurking, even when her utopian society sees only angels.
Scholars have traditionally looked to the era’s social conditions to understand the rise of Nazism. Two new biographies take a different approach.
“Syria’s Secret Library,” by Mike Thomson, tells the story of a hidden book collection in a bombed-out building that functioned as “an oasis of normality” in the midst of war.
“Breathe,” by the scholar Imani Perry, takes the form of a letter, by turns indignant, despairing and hopeful, to her young sons.
Power talks about her new memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” and Craig Johnson discusses his Longmire mysteries.
“Antoni in the Kitchen” is a globally inspired memoir-in-recipes.
In “To Build a Better World,” Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow warn that the old consensus on foreign policy has evaporated.
Was his stepfather involved in Jimmy Hoffa’s murder? In a new book — part memoir, part forensic procedural — Jack Goldsmith tries to find out.
A report from PEN America says some restrictions targeted books by authors including Barack Obama, John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
Alberto Manguel sketches 10 classic figures from fiction, including Dracula, Captain Nemo and Long John Silver.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Tom LoBianco’s “Piety and Power” tells us what there is to know about the vice president, which is far from everything.
Some people who have been told to avoid them are wondering. (The rest of us don’t care!)
She was shot to death by a former boyfriend. He wrote about it for The Washington Post. His article won a Pulitzer Prize.