His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.
Readers discuss the ways writing and artificial intelligence don’t mix. Also: A degraded civil culture.
In this novel, a group of authors race to finish a mystery manuscript, only to find themselves part of a lethal plot.
The Polish best seller “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” is like a post-porn fever dream of Eastern European magic realism crossed with a plant-based “Joy of Sex.”
In Emma Straub’s latest novel, “American Fantasy,” a pop group’s midlife return provides fodder for both comedy and redemption on the high seas.
Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly all of American popular music.
“Corto Maltese,” Hugo Pratt’s influential 1967 graphic novel, returns, with just as much to say about childhood during wartime.
“Esto es realmente la palabra de Dios”, dice un coleccionista. “¿Por qué no tener un ejemplar muy bonito?”.
A Vietnam veteran-turned-academic historian, he drew acclaim for portraying conflicts from the perspectives of generals as well as grunts on all sides, both in Vietnam and in World War II.
On a recent episode of the “Book Review” podcast, the former poet laureate Ada Limón made the case for why poetry matters and read two poems, including this one called “Instructions on Not Giving Up.”
*SPOILER ALERT* We asked Times readers and listeners of the “Book Review” podcast what questions they had for Andy Weir. Many wanted to know why he ended his book “Project Hail Mary” the way he did. Andy explains.
Try this short quiz to see how many titles and people you can pair up from five classic books.
The well-born protagonist of Nancy Lemann’s novel “The Oyster Diaries” returns home and immediately feels like an outsider.
In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.
Diagnosticado con autismo severo, los médicos dijeron que no hablaría, pero llegó a estudios de posgrado y debutó como novelista.
“This is actually God’s word,” says one collector. “Why not have a really nice copy of it?”
In Caro Claire Burke’s novel, “Yesteryear,” a homesteading momfluencer can no longer hide the scandal swirling just below the surface.
These novels marry good mysteries with unforgettable characters and the twists and turns of the investigative process to deliver page-turning thrills.
With the global entertainment business reeling during a period of rapid change, there was little enthusiasm on either side for a costly standoff.
Readers react to Sarah Wildman’s guest essay about the free-range childhood depicted in the Rob Reiner film “Stand by Me.”
Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.
“Yesteryear,” a debut novel about an influencer who is transported to the early 19th century, lands the author Caro Claire Burke in the middle of the culture wars.
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define anything at all.
The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning, modern rage.
The Book Review editors discuss fiction and nonfiction that caught their eye. Plus, Ada Limón on the power of poetry.
“The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.
With “Transcription,” the writer makes a case for the vitality of the form.
Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In his free time, Jeff Martin mobilized best-selling authors to travel to sold-out events in his hometown. He will soon expand his horizons.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s carefully applied ambition has propelled him to a rarefied perch.
She vividly recalls what the novel, and others like it, meant to her mother. Her own new book is “The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary.”
Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8.
The director, Luanne James, was fired at a board meeting for the Rutherford County Library System on Monday after she refused to move certain books to the adult section.
She told me that anyone who won’t read her book is not her friend and that I am contributing to the greater problem in the world.
In a new book, two botanists hope to reintroduce the 19th-century hobby of “Botanizing” to gardeners, if they can slow down long enough to take notice.
This month brings Barry Manilow and Martha Graham, Earth Day and Easter, as well as a pickle tour and a little night music.
In anticipation of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a Pulitzer winner visited 300 sites to see how history is displayed and, sometimes, erased.
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
These single-serving satires, family dramas and romances can be read cover-to-cover in one sun-dappled afternoon.
What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break.
Casi todas las ideologías pueden esgrimirse para hacer sentir a las mujeres que están fracasando.
The vice president’s book, to be released in June, will detail his return to Christianity after leaving the loosely evangelical practice of his childhood.
Books by Marie NDiaye, Daniel Kehlmann and Rene Karabash are among the shortlisted titles for the major award for fiction translated into English.
Yann Martel’s “Son of Nobody” joins many recent books that reimagine the classics, but offers a Nabokovian twist.
The sloppy, solipsistic narrator of Kirsten King’s novel, “A Good Person,” casts a witchy spell on a guy who dumped her. Hours later, he’s been stabbed to death.
El autor de ciencia ficción habla de ‘Proyecto Hail Mary”, su novela científica que fue adaptada en una película protagonizada por Ryan Gosling.
Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.
Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.
Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.
Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers.
The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul.
Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.
Eddie Murphy, Snoop Dogg and Bill Clinton (naturally) show up in his gossipy new memoir. He isn’t very sentimental.
Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.
Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.
Trained as a playwright, he got his first TV writing job on “St. Elsewhere,” then worked on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Wire,” “Treme” and “Bosch.”
The planners of the Iran war had plenty of on-the-ground intelligence but operated with little insight into the minds of their enemies.
In “Transcription,” Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication.
Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.
“The Keeper,” the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, returns readers to an insular village in rural western Ireland.
If you’ve blazed through all of the beloved crime novelist’s works, here are more thrillers that may be up your dark alley.
George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.
Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.
Jones’s new novel follows two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
A film director, movie theorist and author, he was widely regarded as one of his country’s towering artists and intellectuals.
Although he did not speak a word of Persian, his interpretations of the 13th-century mystic’s work made Rumi a New Age icon for millions.
If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.
After a disappointing movie adaptation, the Norwegian author took the reins as showrunner in a new Netflix series based on his Detective Hole books.
In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan’s novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell.
Our columnist on the month’s best books.
Philip Stead’s “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” gleefully ignores all the storytelling rules.
Scouring estate sales, eBay and family basements, Rhae Lynn Barnes amassed a disturbing collection to write “Darkology,” her groundbreaking new book.
This year’s winners include the latest novel by the South Korean Nobel laureate in literature and a memoir by one of India’s best known novelists.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A new play at the Public Theater written by Michael J. Chepiga and the former ambassador Julissa Reynoso is a diplomatic memoir of sorts, and a meditation on loving one’s country.
The books, about astronomy and other topics, were written in Chinese by Jesuit missionaries who shared information on science as part of their effort to spread Christianity.
In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become.
The author Elizabeth Arnott recommends thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.”
In an announcement video with the director Peter Jackson, the late-night host said he was developing a new film based on early chapters of the trilogy.
The writer, and the artist JD Beltran, have come up with Art + Water, to host exhibitions, give 30 artists studio space, and offer community events.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
As more A.I. generated writing is unleashed on the world, more readers will question who — or what — has penned their favorite works.
A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless growth impossible to sustain.
In “How Flowers Made Our World,” David George Haskell makes a case for their soft power.
Just in time for Opening Day, Robert Coover’s prescient 1968 baseball novel is back in print.
When it comes to breaking news, it’s a race not only to get the story, but to record it. We tracked down some of the speediest fingers in our newsroom.
The actor and narrator stepped back into his breakout role for a new audiobook edition of Stephen King's bittersweet classic. Here, he breaks down some favorite scenes.
“American Men,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, and “Who Needs Friends,” by Andrew McCarthy, report from the front lines of the epidemic of male loneliness.
In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators.
How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.
“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos.
Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.
In Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “Almost Life,” a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs.
Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
Try this short quiz on comic-book characters who made the leap to television.
Donald Trump’s insults alway say more about him than the people he is trying to mock.
A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life.
Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.
In “Playmakers,” Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)
Autores superventas y galardonados nos explicaron por qué tener un perro es importante para su escritura.
En su exitoso libro ‘El arte sueco de ordenar antes de morir’, Margareta Magnusson animaba a los lectores a realizar una limpieza profunda ante una posible partida. La autora ha muerto a los 91 años.
“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?
Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles’s anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today.
The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling, is on pace to be the company’s highest-grossing domestic film.
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.
In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.
Our critic on three terrific new mysteries and a gem-filled story collection.
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Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme.
On the staff of The New Yorker for more than 60 years, he wrote about Duchamp, Rauschenberg and many others. His books include “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”
Plus, a buzzy new book was just canceled over A.I. allegations.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.
Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin’s iconic paperback series.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.
A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.
The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone’s favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.
“I have written six books and counting just because I was very annoyed at how a character was written in a video game,” she says. Her “disgusting” new novel is “Wolf Worm.”
“Paradiso 17,” by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré.
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.
Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination.
En sus galardonados libros, aportó una visión desde dentro a las historias sobre la indiferencia de la élite de su país y el sufrimiento silencioso de las clases más desfavorecidas.
“The other Peruvian” (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and the quiet suffering of the classes underneath.
During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis.
His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
In “Chain of Ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.
In a new book, Caroline Tracey explores the mysteries and beauty of salt lakes.
Try this short quiz on some of Ireland’s most memorable verses from its celebrated poets.
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Sisters in Yellow” follows a group of dreaming and scheming young women through society’s margins.
What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.
In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.
She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
Charlotte Wood’s “The Natural Way of Things” conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.
Her best-selling book on the subject encouraged the world to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks process and “Planet of the Apes.”
Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.
From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.