Terrance Hayes’s hybrid nonfiction book “To Float in the Space Between” pays homage to the poet Etheridge Knight, with room for personal detours and meditation.
Graphic and prose novels for your speed-reading children to both breeze through and savor.
Guy Gunaratne’s “In Our Mad and Furious City,” longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is told in alternating viewpoints after a murder roils the city.
“Selected Poems: 1950-2012,” and “Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry,” are laden with insights that, six years after Rich’s death, remain as urgent as ever.
TV coverage of literary fiction has dwindled, but Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers are exceptions. “Who would have guessed that a 700-page novel would be on national TV?” one publishing executive said.
Casey Gerald’s memoir is our December pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born Dec. 11, 1918, did more than anyone else to bring the Soviet Union to its knees.
In “Evolution,” Eileen Myles makes us reconsider the nature of experience and imagination.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Whether you want to dip into a novel that evokes Midge Maisel’s New York City or pick up a sparkling history of 1950s comedy, we’ve got some recommendations for you.
Only Trump’s flamboyant awfulness stands in the way of his party’s power grab.
From Nixon’s White House to Obama’s, these books highlight presidential right-hand men and their outsize power.
The writer’s archive, which has just been bought by Yale, includes his voluminous diaries and other private handmade books.
Peter Sagal, the host of “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” on NPR, writes about the rigors and rewards of his life as a runner in “The Incomplete Book of Running.”
The Book Review’s poetry columnist, David Orr, picks 10 collections worth your attention.
Tracy K. Smith, the United States poet laureate, looks at the ways poetry has dealt with the shifting political landscapes of the past two decades.
“Agent Running in the Field” will feature a 26-year-old character navigating political turmoil in present-day London.
What does “festive dressy” even mean?
Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior.
By the end of a typical year, hundreds of thousands of books in various styles, genres and subject areas are published. These three lists are meant to help you make sense of it all.
It's not just the government suppressing free expression, it's our neighbors — and ourselves.
When I started reporting on an octogenarian drug mule, I had no idea it would inspire a Hollywood film.
Mr. Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and former President George Bush forged a deeply personal connection that was unusual for most historians and their subjects.
In her memoir, “Why Religion?,” Elaine Pagels tells the story of her own deep loss and her search for answers in faith and spirituality.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s newly translated memoir is about the impact of the Rwandan genocide, during which 37 of her family members were killed.
In “Evening in Paradise,” a volume of short stories, and “Welcome Home,” a memoir unfinished at her death, the cult writer cements her status as a revered chronicler of America’s lost corners.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The former staff critic and frequent contributor to The Times writes about her best reading experiences of the year.
The Times’s staff critics talk with each other about the wide variety of reading they did in 2018.
The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
In Anna Burns’s novel, winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, an unnamed girl is menaced by a political dissident’s affections.
What’s it like seeing your misunderstood profession onstage, with Daniel Radcliffe as a version of you?
The Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma recalls how his father’s gift for storytelling led his son to discover the worlds between covers.
In his new collection of essays, “The End of the End of the Earth,” Franzen complains about groups that emphasize climate change at the expense of conservation.
Marina Benjamin’s lyrical look at sleeplessness asks philosophical and psychological questions about the inability to get a good night’s rest.
What my student taught me about one of life’s most important relationships.
In “Congo Tales,” a new book about the second-largest tropical forest in the world, the story of a people and their home comes alive.
President Trump, who is not a reader, has used Twitter to plug a slew of Trump-friendly books with titles like “Why We Fight” and “The Russia Hoax.”
In “Beastie Boys Book,” Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz gather their memories, mementos and a lot more to offer a celebration of their band.
The parade of rock memoirs continues, but “Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite” is a really good one.
Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson and others tell us about some of their favorite works of literature.
He survived the Great Depression. He fought the Nazis in World War II. And at 87 he turned to writing and agitating, and acquired a loyal following.
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
Think of Ben Schott’s “Jeeves and the King of Clubs” as “Downton Abbey” with a laugh track.
With “Heresy,” Melissa Lenhardt has delivered an all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West.
Fans of Netflix’s hit supernatural mystery will find all kinds of clues to the show’s third season in a new companion book.
John Strausbaugh’s “Victory City” describes a time of great heroes, and great villainy too.
In Samantha Harvey’s immersive new novel, “The Western Wind,” the village priest spends four days unraveling a local murder.
A book on the Weavers and another on protest songs examine the connections between music and politics.
In “The Grandmaster,” Brin-Jonathan Butler covers the 2016 World Chess Championship, which pit Norway’s Magnus Carlsen against Russia’s Sergey Karjakin.
Miranda Seymour’s dual biography, “In Byron’s Wake,” chronicles the lives of his widow, Annabella Milbanke, and his daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
The fans of her two series — the Inheritance trilogy and the Broken Earth trilogy — will find much to love in her new collection, “How Long ’Til Black Future Month?”
“Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly,” by Joshua Rivkin, the first biography of the artist, is a deeply personal work — as much about the biographer as his subject.
“City of Light,” by Rupert Christiansen, recounts Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s swift modernization of Paris in the mid-19th century.
“The Last Poets,” by Christine Otten, is a novelized account of the radical Harlem spoken-word group whose style and themes paved the way for contemporary rappers.
Massive and lavish boxed sets give Bridget Riley and Lucian Freud their due.
Jason Lutes’s “Berlin,” over two decades in the making, explores a society on the verge of collapse. One of two books reviewed in Ed Park’s Graphic Content column.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Ahead of the fifth and final season of “Broad City,” its co-creator and co-star leaves New York to see the country, finding herself (and some good laughs) along the way.
Our romance columnist, Jaime Green, picks her fall favorites.
As the weather grows wetter and colder, it’s an excellent time to hole up with fantastical new fiction.
With seven hit novels, now the basis of a blockbuster TV show, Volker Kutscher has helped ignite a debate in Germany about whether history is repeating itself.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: a vintage review of holiday books.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A graphic gift guide revealing what every reader truly wishes for during the holidays.
A behind-the-scenes look at how 32 extraordinary black male writers came together for a T Magazine photo shoot at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where they shared tributes to their favorite black female writers.
These 32 American men, and their peers, are producing literature that is essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now.
Greg Boehm, who owns some 3,000 vintage books on mixology and drinking culture, has made his collection of rare recipes public. Here he discusses the evolution of cocktail culture in the city, which he describes as “a tricky place right now.”
Ruth Reichl retrieves memories of her own childhood as she reviews Nina Stibbe’s guide to making it through the holidays, “An Almost Perfect Christmas.”
A kid-friendly guide to great art from David Hockney, an illustrated update of “The Jungle Book,” a travel book for fearless young explorers and more.
Hilary Spurling’s “Anthony Powell” relates the life of an author who is overlooked except for one major work, the multivolume “A Dance to the Music of Time.”
“Battlefields,” by Yan Morvan, “Bears Ears,” by Stephen E. Strom, and Peter and Beverly Pickford’s “Wild Land” transport readers, through stunning images, to the farthest corners of our planet.
Both Turner’s “My Story,” a sequel to 1986’s “I, Tina,” and “Anything for a Hit,” from the music scout Dorothy Carvello, expose the sleazy power dynamics of the rock ’n’ roll business.
In a new book about the history of the famous role-playing game, a group of authors present hundreds of visual artifacts.
Ravens, love affairs and, yes, dirty laundry all shed light on the comings and goings of British royalty.
Readers will delight in the unexpected characters in three new mysteries, from the female police cadet in Louise Penny’s new book to a crime-solving cub reporter down on his luck.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The author discusses “Nightflyers” on Syfy, whitewashing of his work, future “sexing” and ideas for other “Game of Thrones” prequels.
Novels, stories, mystery series and memoirs by female authors paint a variegated portrait of the Pine Tree State.
In “The Indispensable Composers,” the New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini chooses the best of the bunch.
Anna Burns, who for the last four and a half years has suffered from debilitating back pain and spent much of that time relying on state benefits, talks about the future.
These five new volumes investigate some of the most basic issues raised by wine, while posing new questions and inspiring thirst.
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
The actress and author of the essay collection “My Squirrel Days” never finished “The Woman in White,” by Wilkie Collins: “Why did the woman wear so much white? I couldn’t sit with it long enough to find any answers.”
A roundup of the best and biggest photo books, featuring the city in all its grit and glory, plus tales of hope and a collection of vintage postcards.
After a backlash, the Mystery Writers of America will not honor Linda Fairstein, a former city prosecutor turned author, as one of its Grand Masters.
These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism.
Photography, romances, cookbooks, the great outdoors: We’ve got them, and more.
New titles include Michael Caine’s memoir, “Blowing the Bloody Doors Off,” books about The X-Files and Sex and the City and a biography of Howard Hughes.
Andrew McCarthy gathers tales from Patagonia to the Azores to Central Asia, reminding us that the most harrowing journeys are often within us.
With a range of welcoming accents and insights, cookbook authors from Morocco to Detroit, London to Philadelphia, will lure you into the kitchen.
Our photography roundup includes books by Abelardo Morell, Anne Brigman, Shomei Tomatsu and Lynsey Addario.
A roundup of new books examining the ways that music, from punk to hip-hop, can be a way out of societal dead ends.
In new books about the natural world, find solace and plenty of good causes: Save the bats and the bees! Hug a tree!
Five new books combine reporting on sports with discussions of politics, economics, society and law.
From picture books to Y.A., the year’s standout books offer something for every kid.
Mark Dery’s “Born to Be Posthumous” is an entertaining account of the hard-to-know artist behind “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” and other dark delights.
The new book, “The Testaments,” is set 15 years later and is scheduled for release in September 2019.
“The Waiter,” by Matias Faldbakken, features a fastidious server whose old-fashioned habits come under threat.
“Sophisticated Giant,” by Maxine Gordon, recalls the restive musical innovator who left an indelible mark on the world of jazz.
A self-titled coffee-table book — subtitled “Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness” — collects the photographer’s black-and-white images to challenge global racism.
The second volume of Gary Giddins’s “Bing Crosby” traces the singer’s career through the war years.
“Magnum China” collects decades-worth of images by Western photographers of a nation gripped by political conflict.
In “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” Idle remembers the Pythons and other famous friends; in “Professor at Large,” Cleese revisits his years at Cornell.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “The Circuit” is a poet’s-eye view of tennis in 2017.
“Food on the Move,” edited by Sharon Hudgins, is a collection of essays exploring the glamorous past and occasionally delectable present of dining on trains around the world.
Vivien Schweitzer’s history of the genre, “A Mad Love,” and Heidi Waleson’s intricate account of the New York City Opera, “Mad Scenes and Exit Arias,” testify to an art that inspires deep passions.
In “No One at the Wheel,” Samuel Schwartz, the onetime traffic commissioner of New York City, examines the perils of driverless cars.
Dispatches from a former border patrol agent and more.
Anne Serre’s slender work of fiction, recently translated from the French, is about three carnal but innocent women working for a large family.
From the Harlem Renaissance to today, the painting and photography and poetry of black Americans have both shaped and reflected a shifting cultural landscape.
Born in India and later a resident of Africa, Europe and the United States, she explored themes of feminism, post-colonialism and the search for identity.
Sitting in front of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art showed the author Heather Rose what it meant to be vulnerable.
“How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England,” by Ruth Goodman, and “What Would Mrs. Astor Do?,” by Cecelia Tichi, are witty guides to the manners and insults of previous eras.
In “Dear Los Angeles,” the editor David Kipen compiles excerpts from the letters and diaries of a wide range of people to compose a kaleidoscopic view of the city.
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s “Hungover” is filled with boozy factoids, eccentric remedies and tales of alcoholic adventures on several continents.
In the book “Trump’s Enemies,” by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, President Trump repeats his unfounded assertion that President Barack Obama was complicit in spying against him.
A practitioner of “Engaged Buddhism,” he hired the unemployable; provided job training, child care and housing; and developed retreats at Auschwitz.
For “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a movie about poetic inspiration starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, the filmmakers hired real poets to write verses for the characters.
His book, “Rhett Butler’s People,” was a best seller. He was also known for titles inspired by the Border collies on his sheep ranch in Virginia.
Many Ms. Paisley’s poems, plays and fiction plumbed the depths of domestic violence, a subject she knew all too well.
Sign of the times? The University of Iowa, home to the famous Writers’ Workshop, now has a television-writing course.
The company will commission 22 plays, with more than half set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color, its artistic director said.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Max Hastings discusses his new history of the war, and Sue Prideaux talks about the life of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Andrew Delbanco’s “The War Before the War” excavates the past in ways that illuminate the present.
One is set in the world of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family. One features talking latkes. Both capture the holiday’s promise that light will triumph over darkness.
The illustrator Katie Fricas celebrates what would have been the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s 90th birthday this month.
In “Severance,” by Ling Ma, and “We Can Save Us All,” by Adam Nemett, young people are faced with preventing, or even just surviving, impending apocalypse.
In three new collections, writers explore the lives of individuals testing the boundaries that separate themselves from other people.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A grasping, conniving young writer schemes his way to the top in “A Ladder to the Sky,” John Boyne’s dark satire of literary ambition.
In “The Lonesome Bodybuilder,” the author and playwright Yukiko Motoya spins imaginative analogies of marital dysfunction.
With “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the “Big Little Lies” author has delivered another ambitious, darkly comic thriller.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: commemorating Anne Sexton.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The paper’s “100 Notables” history goes back more than a century.
The junior senator from Nebraska and author, most recently, of “Them” says he and his wife would like their children to love books: “We want them to be addicted to reading.”
Twenty years after Bill Clinton was impeached, “The Clinton Affair” and “Slow Burn” put the women who accused him of sexual misconduct in a new light.
Part of a mid-20th-century cadre of sophists, he wrote prodigiously, and iconoclastically, in left-leaning journals while earning distinction as a sociologist.
In her wide-ranging essays, the Danish writer Inger Christensen, who died in 2009, cuts her towering erudition with mischief and generosity.
Sue Prideaux’s “I Am Dynamite!” and John Kaag’s “Hiking With Nietzsche” offer modern interpretations of a highly controversial thinker.
Daisy Johnson’s debut novel, “Everything Under,” a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, riffs on timeless myths to document a daughter’s desperate search.
Stephen M. Walt’s “The Hell of Good Intentions” takes a critical look at how Washington has handled international affairs over the last several years.
Max Hastings’s “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” condemns all sides for corruption, cynicism and outright cruelty.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The former first lady and a star of ABC’s “black-ish” talk about Mrs. Obama’s memoir, feeling “good enough” and what it really means to “go high.”
Mr. del Paso, whose novels were rife with digressions, allusions and metaphors stacked on metaphors, won the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2015.