A young creative at a Madrid ad agency does her best to do the least in Beatriz Serrano’s darkly comic debut novel, “Discontent.”
A hands-free “pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something,” would help. Her new novel is “Will There Ever Be Another You.”
At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here’s how we checked it off.
The author, Jenan Matari, said her book launch event in New Jersey had been canceled because of her views on the war in Gaza. A local rabbi cited concerns about her social media posts.
On the streets of Lower Manhattan, the famed record producer looks for signs of those sweaty 1990s nights.
In “All Consuming,” the TV baking star turned food philosopher Ruby Tandoh munches on our decadent, crispy, sticky, turmeric-dusted, thirst-trap recipe economy.
In “What Happened to Millennials,” Charlie Wells celebrates his anxious, unhappy, successful, pop-culture-obsessed, middle-aged, cringey cohort.
Sports and sex make for a knockout pairing in romance novels. Here’s where to start.
The “Eat, Pray, Love” author on healing from the sex and love addiction that almost destroyed her life.
In a new memoir, the former Democratic senator from West Virginia defends his centrist politics, portraying himself as a high-minded public servant with unshakable convictions.
In a frank memoir, Drew Nieporent looks back at a half-century career that’s produced signature New York restaurants like Montrachet and Tribeca Grill.
In her sweeping second novel, “The Wilderness,” Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace.
The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses.
With echoes of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Goldfinch,” Catherine Chidgey’s devastating new novel watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shape.
Try this short quiz on novels set around America’s 19th-century western frontier.
An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years.
In “Will There Ever Be Another You,” Patricia Lockwood recounts the pandemic’s devastating effects on her life.
In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.
As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.
In a new book, two longtime fashion editors — along with Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric — open up about times they got canned.
Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination.
Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.
The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.
In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
En un libro de memorias y un documental, el actor conocido por ‘Dos hombres y medio’, ‘Pelotón’ y una serie de excesos que lo llevaron al límite, cuenta más detalles de su vida.
Elizabeth Gilbert, autora de “Comer, rezar, amar” profundiza en sus dificultades con una relación obsesiva en unas nuevas memorias.
The A.I. company Anthropic illegally added my books to its data set.
The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn’t. But he doesn’t let it get him down.
In Mason Coile’s new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.
The author “isn’t shy about his opinions,” as one director put it. But he gives filmmakers a wide berth and they have to decide what to put onscreen.
In “Rocket Dreams,” Christian Davenport revels in the struggle between the billionaire moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to leave the Earth behind.
“Fit for Life,” which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.
The season brings histories by Jill Lepore, David McCullough and Joseph J. Ellis, memoirs by Margaret Atwood and Susan Orlean, and more.
The novelist’s sheet music collection reveals new perspectives on her life and work.
In her new book, the actress turns her acid wit to Hollywood’s darker side and her own personal struggles.
It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.
A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening.
Fifty years after “’Salem’s Lot,” Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.
Mimi Pond’s new graphic novel spins a cinematic romp out of the British aristocrats’ lives and loves: “You can’t make this stuff up.”
In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.”
Alexandra Alter, who covers publishing industry news and writes Books features for The Times, is always on the hunt for the next Harry Potter.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family.
Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 0 to 2.
She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.”
En “El último secreto” encontramos a Robert Langdon intentando rescatar a su amante, una neurocientífica que se encuentra en la mira de una organización misteriosa.
In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.
La aclamada escritora tiene un nuevo libro de memorias y una advertencia.
In “The Blood in Winter,” Jonathan Healey explores the many causes of the English Civil War.
A pairing of grapes and red onions makes a classic recipe feel especially current.
“Fresh Sets,” by Tembe Denton-Hurst, surveys some of the coolest contemporary designs from around the world.
Our columnist on three notable recent novels.
In her memoir, the whistle-blower explores the motives behind the leak that sent her to prison.
Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” delves into her struggle with an obsessive relationship in a new memoir.
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
“The Secret of Secrets” follows Robert Langdon as he tries to rescue his lover, a neuroscientist who is targeted by a mysterious organization after a breakthrough.
One of America’s finest memoirists, in photos and in prose, is at the peak of her powers in “Art Work”— and wondering if her pictures will survive.
In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.
From Fox News to Tubi to HarperCollins, here’s what is in the media empire that Rupert Murdoch built.
Try this short quiz about cartoons and comic strips that found new life as moving pictures.
Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about bands.
The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week.
In “All the Way to the River,” the best-selling writer dilutes a powerful story of love, addiction and loss with saccharine self-indulgence.
The popular science writer, whose new book is “Replaceable You,” has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more.
A longtime resident, he devoted his career to Historic Richmond Town and Sailors’ Snug Harbor, two of the borough’s most important cultural institutions.
The ones that stuck with us, and the ones we’ve left behind.
In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for “Two and a Half Men,” “Platoon” and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three great books that came out this summer.
Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.
Keira D’Amato retired from running at 24, but a decade later she was back and setting marathon records. A new memoir details her journey, which is still unfolding.
Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece.
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
Andrew Davies has spent more than four decades spinning novels from “Pride and Prejudice” to “House of Cards” into small-screen gold.
In his new novel, John Boyne challenges readers to examine the often ignored shadow of abuse.
In Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can’t stand it any longer.
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on book recommendation.
Watch for new books by Dan Brown, Thomas Pynchon, Mona Awad and more.
A new memoir finds the self-help icon locked in a destructive romantic relationship with her best friend, who relapsed while fighting terminal cancer.
In “Ghosted,” Alice Vernon explores the human urge to pierce the veil — and the many mediums, charlatans and true believers who made it an enduring industry.
“The Secret of Secrets,” the sixth installment in Dan Brown’s franchise about the symbologist Robert Langdon, brings the bookish hero back to a European capital to unravel a shocking conspiracy.
Echoing backward to the sixth century and forward to “The Lion King,” the play shows young people that stories are resilient against time and chaos.
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.
Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.
The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
The author of the Slough House novels — the latest one is “Clown Town” — has an eclectic stack on his nightstand.
Born dirt poor, Victoria Woodhull rose to heights of wealth and fame in the Gilded Age, reinventing herself along the way. A sprightly new biography recounts her unlikely story.
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
Check out books by Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Joe Hill, and revisit familiar worlds with Dan Brown, Mick Herron and Bolu Babalola.
Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.
Kiran Desai has returned with her most ambitious novel yet: “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” a sprawling romance that was all-consuming to complete.
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
Inspired by his parents’ travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father’s safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters.
Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now.
“The Brothers Size” at the Shed is speaking to a new generation of audiences. “Unfortunately, parts of the plays are still relevant,” McCraney said.
“Sympathy Tower Tokyo,” which was a best seller in Japan, is a social novel for the age of A.I.
The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century’s most famous agitators.
In “The Arrogant Ape,” the primatologist Christine Webb takes a hard look at our human superiority complex, and is not impressed.
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.’
Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.
Malle, de 39 años, sucede a Anna Wintour, una gigante de la moda. ‘Tiene que haber un cambio notable que haga que esto sea mío’, dijo Malle en una entrevista.
Try this short quiz to see how many opening lines from classic 20th-century books you recognize.
The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
Amie Barrodale’s dazzlingly weird novel, “Trip,” is about a mother and son adrift — in the afterlife and in the South Atlantic, respectively.
In the enchanting memoir “The Season” Helen Garner writes about her grandson’s Australian Rules football team — and so much more.
The ambitious but intimate sweep of Patrick Ryan’s new novel, “Buckeye,” recalls classic storytelling of another era.
In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
She forged an arts career in Houston while raising children who became accomplished entertainers: Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen and Tex Allen.
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over “Hamilton” and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden in September, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return.
At Japan Society, Emergences celebrates Mishima’s centennial. “One of the things that I absolutely love about Mishima is that I don’t absolutely love him,” said one participant.
In “The Call of the Honeyguide,” Rob Dunn explores how the natural and human worlds have helped each other through history — and can again.
In exile in Canada, she and her husband, the novelist Josef Skvorecky, published books that had been outlawed by the Soviet-backed Communist regime.
Gene Pressman, the impresario behind the world-famous department store, would have done things differently.
“This Is My Body,” by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month’s notable horror releases.
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said.
Menos personas leen por placer. Recuperemos el hábito.
In February, the publication Marin Lately began satirizing the wealthy, idyllic swath of the Bay Area. The author has been a mystery, until now.
The acclaimed writer has a new memoir, and a warning.
The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.
In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman’s fragmented consciousness.
The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”
A look at design-world events, products and people.
Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit.
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs.
Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Hemos preguntado a expertos por libros que ayuden a comprender el trastorno narcisista de la personalidad.
But there is a place for the Bible, says the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is celebrating its centennial.
Our columnist on four notable novels.
His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.
Our critic A.O. Scott gazes into a well with Robert Frost.
We asked experts for books to help people understand narcissistic personality disorder.
In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.
Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.
Los familiares de Virginia Roberts Giuffre, quien falleció a principios de este año, sostienen que el libro resta importancia a los abusos que sufrió a manos de su marido.
A retreat from partisan politics, wokeness and optimism.
The annual financial disclosure reported no income as of yet from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s recently reported book deal.