Robbie Corey-Boulet’s “Love Falls on Us” points out the negative consequences of American humanitarian efforts abroad.
He began his career creating magazine advertisements and covers for TV Guide, and later focused on vibrant new versions of classic children’s tales.
“Human Relations and Other Difficulties” gathers acute, witty essays and reviews by Mary-Kay Wilmers, and “Faber & Faber,” by Toby Faber, tells the history of the venerable publishing house where Wilmers and others have worked.
Anthony Kronman talks about “The Assault on American Excellence,” and Christopher Benfey discusses “If,” his new book about Rudyard Kipling.
The illustrator Lou Beach offers his take on Jerzy Kosinski’s psychological tale about stunted childhood and war.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
There’s an eight-year gap between her award-winning debut, “The Tiger’s Wife,” and “Inland,” which has just hit the best-seller list.
In her Help Desk column, Judith Newman shares books on “adulting” — learning the skills we need to make it in the world, without Mom or Dad at the ready.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A flexible program for middle and high schools based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and analysis essays.
‘If you don’t attend to it,’ the stand-up comic explains, ‘you will regret it.’
The author of “The Grammarians” and other novels favors nonfiction when she’s writing: “I try not to read contemporary fiction, which is often so good it’s discouraging or so bad it’s discouraging.”
To prevent distractions, Conor Dougherty, an economics writer, dumped social media and anything fun — even his browser — from his smartphone.
Jonathan Coe’s latest concerns several generations of characters in the years leading up to the Brexit vote and the Trump presidency.
Malaka Gharib, the author of the coming-of-age graphic memoir “I Was Their American Dream,” shares her tips.
The artist Firelei Báez interprets what happens inside two novels and one collection of poetry.
Los libros del autor británico, irónicamente, están desinformando debido a la comercialización de versiones piratas de “1984” o “Rebelión en la granja”.
The Zimbabwean writer was inspired by Faulkner, Eliot and Toni Morrison for “Out of Darkness, Shining Light,” a fictional account of the journey David Livingstone’s workers took transporting his body.
In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books,” the book historian Leah Price tries to contextualize our current anxieties about books and reading by turning to the past.
In “And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?” Lawrence Weschler writes a “biographical memoir,” covering over three decades of his relationship with the famed neurologist.
In “Savage Appetites,” the journalist Rachel Monroe investigates a peculiarly female attraction to murder cases.
A new book takes a looser definition of “restaurant” to explore global roots.
Jason DeParle’s “A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves” is a deeply reported look at global migration centered on the experiences of a single Filipino family over the course of 30 years.
Michael S. Roth’s “Safe Enough Spaces” and Andrew Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence” differ on the battles roiling universities.
Alix Nathan’s novel “The Warlow Experiment” is based on a true story about an 18th-century Englishman’s test of the ability to survive absolute solitude.
In the story collection “The World Doesn’t Require You,” Rion Amilcar Scott witnesses the moral complexities of black masculinity in America.
In “How to Be an Antiracist,” the scholar Ibram X. Kendi scrutinizes himself and the rest of us for lessons on how to eradicate the scourge of racism.
A selection of recent poetry books; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The publisher Judith Regan plans to put out a new book by the best-selling political author, who was accused of multiple instances of sexual harassment.
She collaborated with her husband, Harvey, on “It Happened in the Catskills” and other histories told in the voices of the people who were there.
“The Outlaw Ocean,” the journalist Ian Urbina’s chronicle of offshore crime, ranges from Somalia to the Philippines to the Antarctic.
As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. The author of “1984” would not be surprised.
“I’ve been writing a book for a couple of years and then they slip the chain off and I can run wild.”
Zink’s latest, about two generations of an American family, offers a portrait of the downtown New York music scene of the late 1980s as well as a subversive history of modern American politics.
At a shop that at times functioned as a sanctuary after the Tree of Life shooting, the owner sees his job as “a moral obligation.”
Téa Obreht’s new novel, Barack Obama’s summer reading list and more.
Nicci Gerrard wrote about the disease after it struck her father, but her new book is “full of other people’s voices and stories as well as my own.”
A child of Barbadian immigrants, Ms. Marshall drew on her upbringing to animate the lives of her characters, many of them strong women.
Ware — whose new thriller, “The Turn of the Key,” enters the list this week at No. 3 — loves haunted-house novels, especially “The Haunting of Hill House.”
Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.
From Düsseldorf to Paris, Cape Cod to the Sierra Nevada, these four debut novels reveal the range and the universality of loss.
The illustrator and graphic novelist Rutu Modan offers a homage to Leah Goldberg, one of Israel’s most celebrated poets and children’s authors.
In “Because Internet,” Gretchen McCulloch explains the accelerated evolution of the English language.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In Téa Obreht’s 2011 debut novel “The Tiger’s Wife,” a young doctor untangles the peculiar circumstances of her grandfather’s recent death.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a serial killer who murders his way onto a jury, a wife creeped out by a robotic double and a nasty mental asylum.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “The Mosquito,” Timothy Winegard examines the history of man’s “deadliest predator.” In “Buzz, Sting, Bite,” Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson looks at how insects have shaped human civilization.
Christopher Leonard’s “Kochland” is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at how a family-run business in Kansas grew into an economic and political giant.
Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police” tell of not-too-distant futures in which our entire lives are monitored.
Among other things, the author of “Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story” is reading a novel based on a juicy scandal in her own family.
From mountain slopes to city streets, four new books celebrate the pleasures and perils of pedaling your way through life.
Two new books — Anthony McCann’s “Shadowlands” and Christopher Ketcham’s “This Land” — explore the forces shrinking the open expanse and destroying unbridled nature out West.
The former president recommended new books by Téa Obreht and Colson Whitehead, as well as well-known works by Hilary Mantel and Toni Morrison.
In “The Way Through the Woods,” Long Litt Woon writes about diving into an obsession with learning about the fungi, and how it helped her mourn for her husband and embrace life again.
Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?
We asked black writers to bring overlooked moments of history to life — in poetry and prose. With contributions from Jesmyn Ward, Barry Jenkins, Rita Dove and more.
Tired of bringing death to the victims of a plague, the heroine of Margaret Owen’s ‘The Merciful Crow’ is out to restore her land’s rightful prince.
Cara Wall’s novel, “The Dearly Beloved,” is the story of two ministers and their wives, as their lives intertwine over the decades, in love and religious devotion.
A Chinese-American teenager in Gilded Age Atlanta takes on a secret identity as an advice columnist in Stacey Lee’s “The Downstairs Girl.”
Summer’s notable horror fiction includes a story collection and a novel from Paul Tremblay.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “An American Sunrise,” Joy Harjo draws on her Muscogee Creek heritage to celebrate indigenous traditions and to mourn their passing.
Tupelo Hassman’s novel “Gods With a Little G” pits a young girl’s self-discovery against her evangelical Christian surroundings.
“Nobody’s Victim,” by the lawyer Carrie Goldberg, and “Consent,” by Donna Freitas, recount the authors’ personal experiences with sexual harassment and its lasting trauma.
In Amanda Goldblatt’s debut novel, “Hard Mouth,” an aimless 20-something escapes family tragedy in the wilderness.
In his new book, Christopher Leonard offers a deeply reported look at the enormous energy conglomerate and its corporate and political objectives.
In the scores of anthologies he compiled and in his own writing, he sought to teach and expand young imaginations through verse.
The Japanese writer, inspired by Anne Frank’s diary, sought to “recompose” that experience for her new book “The Memory Police,” a dystopian novel about surveillance and erasure.
Ready or not, Mo Willems’s Pigeon joins a cavalcade of kids, creatures and teachers heading to the classroom for the first time.
The popular Percy Jackson musical will have a limited run at Longacre Theater.
Obreht burst onto the literary scene in 2011 with “The Tiger’s Wife.” Her new novel, “Inland,” features a resolute heroine and an immigrant outlaw.
Olga Tokarczuk’s “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” is a funny and philosophically complex whodunit.
Neither a polemicist nor an ideologue, she thrived on complexities generated by doubt and uncertainty.
“The Catcher in the Rye” and other Salinger novels are coming out in digital formats, and the writer’s son plans to release more from his archives.
Toni Morrison and the fate of fiction in an age of distraction.
Toni Morrison and the fate of fiction in an age of distraction.
Parul Sehgal, Dwight Garner and Wesley Morris talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom discusses her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”
In Pablo Cartaya’s ‘Each Tiny Spark,’ Carolyn Mackler’s ‘Not if I Can Help It’ and Kristin Mahoney’s ‘The 47 People You’ll Meet in Middle School,’ kids navigate the toughest crossing.
Sarah M. Broom’s memoir, “The Yellow House,” erects a textual record of a house destroyed — and of the lives lived within it.
She returned to us again and again, wrote book after book for us, about us.
Fifty years ago, novels by Jacqueline Susann, Mario Puzo and Philip Roth topped the best-seller list.
There is a blossoming of black women writers who are following in her footsteps and making their own impact.
The radical cartoonist William Gropper’s “Alay-Oop,” newly reissued, can be appreciated as a very early example of the graphic novel.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In 2013, Sherwin B. Nuland wrote for the Book Review about Sheri Fink’s “Five Days at Memorial,” which depicted the crisis at a New Orleans hospital devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
“Inland,” set in the rowdy lands of the Arizona Territory during the 1890s, weaves together the story of a frontierswoman with that of a wanted murderer and his camel.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “Crisis in the Red Zone,” Richard Preston recounts how Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014 and what it meant for those desperate to treat the infected.
The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes.
James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country’s biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2.
Her novels offered more than an education in literature. They showed me how language protects history.
“I grew up wanting to be only her,” Shonda Rhimes said.
She should be remembered for the sharp clarity of her social vision, as well as for her gorgeous words.
The Nobel laureate spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012. Her lecture is published here for the first time.
“Beirut Hellfire Society,” by Rawi Hage, features a 20-year-old undertaker and a secret association of hedonists. There are also talking dogs.
A reader pays tribute to the novelist, who died on Monday. Also: The robustness of democracy; red caps (non-Trump).
The arrival in Israel of a final batch of the writer’s documents serves as a coda to a legal saga that many compared to a Kafka novel.
When I was 11, my mother told me I wasn’t ready. Not for Toni. I tried anyway.
An author looks back on “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” a book series that terrified him as a child and inspired him as an adult.
Our conversations were a kind of bliss — undeniably, indisputably an education I call grace.
Oscar Cásares, whose novel “Where We Come From” is set in an American town bordering Mexico, shares his recommendations.
Black life is the canvas for her body of work. But her subject is our nation.
Irresistible vitality and intensity were cornerstones of her extraordinary life.
For many of you, her characters, settings and words have had a lasting impact.
Generations of authors, editors and other artists and luminaries pay tribute to “the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known.”
He wrote prolifically, with a focus on the Yankees, while teaching at Dartmouth and collaborating with his wife on New York oral histories.
The author’s thoughts on writing, freedom, identity and more.
The author’s thoughts on writing, freedom, identity and more.
The author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and best known for her nuanced discussion of race in America.
Readers could sense in Morrison’s fiction the influences of Ralph Ellison, the Bible and William Faulkner, among others, but her idiosyncratic music was her own.
Readers could sense in Morrison’s fiction the influences of Ralph Ellison, the Bible and William Faulkner, among others, but her idiosyncratic music was her own.
The author believed in a language more political than poetic.
The author believed in a language more political than poetic.
A horrific crime committed in Italy in 1975 is the inspiration for Edoardo Albinati’s “The Catholic School,” epic in length but narrow in tone.
The Nobel laureate and author of such novels as “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon” wrote extensively for The New York Times.
Our “Be a Better Reader Challenge” will help you find the right book and read it deeply and critically this week.
Pick up a book and read this week. We’ll deliver helpful advice along to way to help you get the most out of your literary endeavor.
Her powerful language, memorable characters, moving dialogue and vivid descriptions have resonated with generations of readers. Share your memories with us.
The Nobel laureate, who has died at 88, left a rich, powerful literary legacy. These are some of her best — and most essential — books.
The Nobel laureate, who has died at 88, left a rich, powerful literary legacy. These are some of her best — and most essential — books.
Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.
In “White Flights,” a new collection of essays, the novelist Jess Row plumbs the implicit whiteness of some of our most influential literature.
The novelist Susan Straight’s “In the Country of Women” celebrates the grit and generosity of a world atlas’s worth of female relatives.
In “Travel Light, Move Fast,” the fourth volume of Alexandra Fuller’s lacerating portrait of her family, she focuses on her loving and lighthearted father, Tim.
In “Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land,” Julia Blackburn seeks traces of Doggerland, which once linked Britain to the Continent.
In Rajia Hassib’s novel “A Pure Heart,” an Egyptologist excavates her own grief in the wake of the Arab Spring.
“The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony” is Rick Moody’s attempt to come to terms with his troubled domestic life.
A new biography by Shlomo Avineri argues for a reconsideration of one of the most influential political thinkers of recent times.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Robert Wilson’s “Barnum: An American Life” doesn’t draw direct parallels with Donald Trump, but the links are certainly there.
In “This Is Not Propaganda,” Peter Pomerantsev describes traveling the world to discover ever new forms of media manipulation.
One novel transports readers to 1970s Spain, roiled by the Basque militants; another is about a Spanish-born MI6 agent; a third follows a political prisoner in Uruguay.
Tope Folarin’s debut novel, “A Particular Kind of Black Man,” stages a first-generation coming-of-age in white conservative America.
In her new book, Candace Bushnell — now middle-aged — dives back into New York City dating life.
Sarah Broom’s first book tells the story of a shotgun house in New Orleans and its fate before and after Hurricane Katrina.
In “Trick Mirror,” the New Yorker staff writer delivers essays on everything from online self-exposure to drug-induced euphoria and the scam economy.
Carl Hulse talks about “Confirmation Bias,” and De’Shawn Charles Winslow discusses “In West Mills.”
In 1992, Jill Johnston wrote for the Book Review about Richard Bly’s 1990 book “Iron John,” in which he analyzed classic fairy tales and applied them to 20th-century masculinity.
In 1992, Jill Johnston wrote for the Book Review about Robert Bly’s 1990 book “Iron John,” in which he analyzed classic fairy tales and applied them to 20th-century masculinity.
It might surprise you to learn it was “Marjorie Morningstar,” which she rereads every year.
She has profiled Gwyneth Paltrow, Bradley Cooper and Tonya Harding. The Times staff writer on what makes for a killer profile.
Imagining all the reasons you might not make time for your book.
‘This routine isn’t the routine I had 20 years ago. I wouldn’t have exercised. I would have had a boozy brunch with friends.’
Set in the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the linked stories in Philip Caputo’s “Hunter’s Moon” deftly probe his characters’ emotional wounds.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column stalks a lonely shop clerk in Norway, an almost kidnapped California bank clerk and a jittery Manhattan apartment sitter.