The publishing industry’s annual event, normally staged at the cavernous Javits Center, moved some programming online and reached a big digital crowd.
A former director of the Harlem Writers Guild, she published her first novel when she was 55, and her first mystery, featuring a stylish female ex-cop turned sleuth, when she was 64.
Books on the subject have soared up best-seller lists as protests continue across the country.
Scott discusses his first in a series of essays about American writers, and David Kamp talks about “Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America.”
In these new crime novels, the settings — mountain hamlets, Antarctic ice fields, French sheep farms — may look bucolic. They are not.
In Dennis Mahoney’s “Ghostlove,” a young man becomes involved with the dead woman haunting his brownstone.
From Depression-era Wisconsin to 21st-century Wales, the pastures that have shaped the people who tended them.
A school counselor and a children’s book author offer advice for talking to children about racism and George Floyd.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In this week’s issue, A.O. Scott writes about Wallace Stegner. In 1948, Stegner wrote for the Book Review about universities as a place for training writers.
When we’re at home and searching to better ourselves, a certain genre of books beckons, again and again.
She isn’t Georgia’s governor — she will tell you herself — but in “Our Time Is Now” she still has a blueprint for effective leadership.
We don’t need any more novels or TV shows about cops who do the wrong thing for the “right” reason.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“It’s done so much damage in fashioning savage notions of Africa.”
Oblong Books is closed to the public, but star power helps keep the lights on in the Hudson Valley’s literary hub.
In his new biography, “Cross of Snow,” Nicholas A. Basbanes makes a case for the man and the poet.
An unusual case in American letters, he moved easily between literature and pop culture, including movies like “Stir Crazy" and “Splash,” to great acclaim.
A zinelike directory for feminist outposts across the U.S. from 1973 has been reissued, and is selling out.
A play based on Charles W. Chesnutt’s “Marrow of Tradition” shows the writer of “A Raisin in the Sun” attuned to the history of white violence.
Publishers are increasingly seeking out audio talent that reflects the race and experience of the books’ authors and characters. But what constitutes a black, Latino or Asian voice?
These books can help start the conversation.
Gessen surveys the American political landscape in a style that is methodical and direct, relying on pointed observations instead of baroque hyperbole.
Her well-regarded books chronicled day-to-day life, spurning fast-paced gimmicks in favor of carefully built portraits.
The Belarus Free Theater’s livestreaming, mind-bending adaptation of Sasha Sokolov’s poetic novel assumes the bifocal eye-view of a divided self.
The conversation about race needs to start early and keep happening.
Need something to occupy your mind and your time? Consider two book-themed diversions that grab your attention using post or pixel.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The more you read, the more you realize Shakespeare is woven into the fiber of the English language.
Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.
An excerpt from “The Deviant’s War,” by Eric Cervini
An excerpt from “The Next Great Migration,” by Sonia Shah
In 1957, Franklin Kameny was fired from a government job for being gay. His bold fight against bias, Eric Cervini shows in “The Deviant’s War,” inspired a movement.
“Between Everything and Nothing,” by Joe Meno, recounts the harrowing quest by two Ghanaian men to gain asylum in North America.
“Ornamental,” by the Colombian writer Juan Cárdenas, smashes together art, science and philosophy in a compact, fast-moving novel.
In her latest book, “The Next Great Migration,” the science journalist Sonia Shah traces the global movements of humans today to age-old patterns in other species.
“The Dragons, the Giant, the Women” is a migration memoir of separations, relocations and reunions.
“A Burning” captures the political landscape of modern-day India through the lives of three characters.
In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times, considers Wallace Stegner, the Western novelist who captured, and criticized, his region’s individualistic...
These essays on American authors — some well known, some unjustly forgotten, some perpetually misunderstood — aim to restore a sense of the “complex fate” of being an American. Read more about the series.
Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
While you’re stuck at home, a selection of novels will let you hang out in someone else’s, whether it’s a mansion, a lighthouse or an apartment building.
Books scheduled for release this spring and summer are now on track for fall, when authors will be fighting for attention in the midst of a presidential election and an ongoing crisis.
In “A Bit of a Stretch,” Chris Atkins writes about the nine months he spent at Wandsworth, one of the largest, oldest and unruliest prisons in Britain.
After many years at The Wall Street Journal, she began writing books about the social forces that gave rise to hot-button issues in American culture.
The many roles involved in producing a film rule out the notion of a single, indispensable artist.
A novelist finds much to narrate about the fanciful Villa Kérylos on the French Riviera.
New books on hand dryers, carpet patterns and Soviet and Scandinavian design influences.
In William Shivering’s “Thieves of Weirdwood,” a mirror city’s buildings and streets physically reflect the hopes and fears of a “normal,” grim, Dickensian city’s residents.
In Katherine Applegate’s “The One and Only Bob,” Ivan’s best buddy strikes out on his own.
Moyra Davey’s work moves freely between photography, video and writing but is united in its unwavering attention to the objects and accidents of everyday life.
The enormous independent bookstore in Portland, Ore., became an unlikely tourist attraction. Now that it’s shut, Emily Powell, the chief executive, is having to rethink the books business.
Steven Johnson talks about “Enemy of All Mankind,” and Gilbert Cruz offers a guide to Stephen King’s work.
He showed us that liberation from oppression was a matter of life and death.
Three new novels transport you to other places — Nantucket, Seoul and the French Riviera.
“Lithopy,” a social satire, and other futuristic works, mark a new direction for digital storytelling.
“The Vanishing Half,” by Brit Bennett, considers fraught questions of racial identity, personal freedom and community in a story that stretches from the Jim Crow South to 1980s Los Angeles.
The latest installments of political satire from the Washington Post columnist.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“Parakeet,” Marie-Helene Bertino’s trippy, surreal new novel, follows a heroine reckoning with her unhappy engagement and other life choices.
More than a century ago, the editorial page of The Times recommended the Book Review’s annual Summer Reading issue.
On its 45th anniversary, Colin Jost (in “A Very Punchable Face”) and Alan Zweibel (in “Laugh Lines”) relive their years at “Saturday Night Live.”
Maria Golia’s new biography of the unorthodox jazz musician captures the many worlds his compositions explored.
What we wouldn’t give to spend an afternoon reading in the sun.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Previously the president of the company’s adult publishing division, he succeeds Carolyn Reidy, who died earlier this month.
An important gay civil rights history, the story of human migration and summery, juicy new novels from Kevin Kwan, J. Courtney Sullivan, Max Brooks and Ottessa Moshfegh.
‘The Power Broker,’ a biography by Robert Caro, has become a must-have prop for numerous politicians and reporters appearing on camera from home.
Two scholars coined the term millennial and developed a fan base for their grim theories. Now, the surviving one sees a generational realignment happening in American politics that does not bode well for Republicans.
In her best-selling debut, “The Henna Artist,” Alka Joshi changes the course of her mother’s life.
“For five days, I barely moved from the beach chair.”
The program, now in its second year, was expanded from 13 poets in 2019 thanks to a $4.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
After lifting herself up, she poked fun at the motivational industry while promoting her own brand of self-fulfillment in workshops and popular books.
Mr. Hann, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, drew customers from Columbia University and a NASA office to his folding tables covered with used books.
On the stage and on the page, his fury was fueled by an often-cloaked belief in the power of love.
A look back at the passionate activist and writer, as he appeared in the pages of T.
He sought to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency and foresaw that it could kill millions regardless of sexual orientation.
A TV adaptation of the wildly popular young adult books, arriving on Netflix in July, modernizes the setting but stays true to the novels. There’s even a landline.
In “Entangled Life,” the biologist Merlin Sheldrake shines a celebratory spotlight on the little understood features and functions of fungal networks.
A 2009 novel predicted the Chinese people would forget a traumatic crisis. The puzzle, says its author, is how it happened so fast.
“Spirits of Latin America” by Ivy Mix uses the classics as a starting point.
Mr. Bailey was a longtime New Yorker magazine writer who wrote about Rembrandt, J. M. W. Turner and other artists. He died from the novel coronavirus.
In “The Vanishing Half,” her follow-up to “The Mothers,” Brit Bennett writes about twin sisters from Louisiana who set out in very different directions.
Racial strife, consent, wealth inequality: The issues swirling in these fantastical settings may seem familiar.
In “Trumpocalypse,” a former prominent neoconservative reflects on what he got wrong, and where we should go from here.
The Harry Potter author said her new fairy tale would go online in installments, starting Tuesday, and published as a book in November.
“Red Dress in Black and White,” by Elliot Ackerman, features an American woman anxious to leave her Turkish husband as political unrest rages in Istanbul.
In “Fairest,” Meredith Talusan looks back on her life lived at the intersection of genders, races, sexualities and cultures.
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Jim Rasenberger’s “Revolver” explores Sam Colt and the invention of the six-shooter, while Tom Clavin’s “Tombstone” looks at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
“The Cubans,” by Anthony DePalma, paints a detailed, novelistic portrait of a handful of ordinary Cubans — their hopes, political beliefs and struggles to get by.
“The Death of Jesus,” the final novel in a trilogy, is a modern fable that challenges our limited understanding of reality.
How do you ask for attention when the world is consumed by a life-or-death crisis?
Buford recounts his intensely focused experiences in restaurant kitchens after moving his family to Lyon.
A reader suggests that they hand out disposable gloves to browsing customers. Also: Retaliatory dismissals.
With short videos and paid newsletters, everyone from superstars to half-forgotten former athletes and even journalists can, as one tech figure put it, “monetize individuality.”
Han comenzado a reabrir las librerías iberoamericanas. Para hacer frente a momentos tan difíciles, tienen que reforzar el pacto íntimo que mantienen con sus clientes, que en muchos casos son también amigos.
What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse?
In Remy Lai’s “Fly on the Wall,” an overprotected boy who feels invisible at school creates an eavesdropping alter ego.
In Lucy Knisley’s “Stepping Stones,” a city girl faces her fears about farming, family life and evil stepsisters.
Jia Lynn Yang talks about “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide,” and Judith Newman discusses books that help simplify life.
The catalogs meant to accompany the spring’s biggest exhibitions are now the exhibitions themselves.
Patrik Svensson mixed natural history with memoir for his debut, which has become a surprise best seller and award winner in his native Sweden.
Thomas E. Ricks considers books from ancient China down to the war in Afghanistan.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“The President’s Daughter,” set to come out in June 2021, follows their best-selling novel “The President Is Missing.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“For once, I’d like to ask the questions.”
Appointment viewing is back. Find out what online events to look for in coming days, and when to tune in.
As the art world mulls whether a return to “normalcy” should be its goal, publishers mine the archives of artists who found their own counterpaths.
It has been decreed: The author of the ‘Selection’ series has another best seller.
In “Life for Sale,” a young copywriter fails at suicide, offers his life up in the classifieds and has a series of misadventures.
With these books, you can wander through the cities of the Silk Road, visit a bushmeat market in Congo and discover tiny museums in Iceland.
We can’t promise your destination will be an easier time than the one we’re in. But the journey will provide distraction and entertainment!
Explore stories, from a mysterious death at a Los Angeles hotel to Depression-era kidnappings, that are scarier because they really happened.
Does the state of the world have you desperate for a happy ending? Pick up a romance novel.
Drool-Worthy New Cookbooks
Lauretta Charlton reviews Keys’s “More Myself,” Amos’s “Resistance” and Peter Gatien’s “The Club King.”
Six new sports books this season cover everything from surfing to cognitive psychology.
A loving portrait of Natalie Wood by her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner; Val Kilmer’s memoir; and a tribute to the entertaining trash that is “Valley of the Dolls.”
If there were ever a time to distract yourself with escapist fiction, that time is now.
In these novels, housewives battle vampires, a troop of Sasquatch lays siege to a housing development and friends are haunted by a hunting trip gone very, very wrong.
Let books entertain you, offer escape and stretch your horizons this season.
Cheryl Strayed talks with the poet Joy Harjo about beauty, prophecies and listening to your spiritual council.
The actress from “The Good Place” and the host of the “I Weigh” podcast reads an essay about escaping sexual abuse.
If you know what you’ve liked in the past, here are some books that might work for you now.
In “The Price of Peace,” Zachary D. Carter situates the development of Keynes’s economic thought in relation to his social milieu.
In lockdown and through our screens, we’re reminded of all that’s special and strange about group reading: a solitary, private act made public.
His newspaper column, books and blog sought to hold the police accountable, and his reporting reopened a murder case against a Kennedy cousin in Connecticut.
Two new books, Jia Lynn Yang’s “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide” and Adam Goodman’s “The Deportation Machine,” take very different approaches to the immigration question.
In her fiction she depicted “the struggle of Chinese immigrants in American society” — not the “Oriental exoticism” preferred by many publishers in the ’60s.
Our critic Parul Sehgal examines how the notion of time — and how we describe it — has changed during the quarantine.
Total U.S. sales in March were down 8.4 percent to $667 million, a sign of how the early days of the pandemic hurt booksellers and publishers.
A teenage Coriolanus Snow stars in Suzanne Collins’s “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which is every bit as violent and jarring as the first three books.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Drifts,” by Kate Zambreno
An excerpt from “The Equivalents,” by Maggie Doherty
An excerpt from “The Motion of the Body Through Space,” by Lionel Shriver
Interested in learning how to knit your own socks, make cheese or grow medicinal herbs during your home quarantine? You’re not alone.
In “The Motion of the Body Through Space,” a lifelong couch potato starts running, and trouble follows.
Dola de Jong’s 1954 novel “The Tree and the Vine” is a portrait of two women dogged by issues too personal to be defined by political catastrophe.
“The Equivalents,” by Maggie Doherty, combines the story of a Radcliffe College institute to support creative women with that of the friendship forged by five early fellows.
Nikita Stewart’s article about Troop 6000 landed them on the front page. Her book should lead to a bigger conversation about their struggles.
Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” is an inquiry into the artist’s efforts to remain productive.
In this novel, an alternative biography of sorts, Hillary strides into the history books without Clinton at the end of her name.
An excerpt from “The Chiffon Trenches,” by André Leon Talley