Historian Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university. Turning Point USA accused of him belonging to antifa, which he denies.
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Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.
Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend.
To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.
The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start.
Vincenzo Latronico captura la manera en que su generación anhela tener un estilo de vida primoroso, y se burla de ello.
Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize.
The novelist Richard Osman says the stars of his best-selling series — a team of crime-solving retirees, who make their fifth appearance in “The Impossible Fortune” — are as complicated and flawed as anyone else.
“Last Rites,” a book detailing the final 15 years of the metal luminary’s life, is arriving at the same time as “No Escape From Now,” a documentary about a challenging period.
“Black Arms to Hold You Up,” the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.
In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.
In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.
Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.
Feeling the Halloween spirit already? Try this quiz on scary novels and their screen adaptations.
The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other methods fail.
With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope.
A prolific writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.
The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.
Vincenzo Latronico captures his generation’s desire for an exquisite lifestyle — and pokes fun at it.
The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word.
In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.
Freed after 14 months, Eli Sharabi learned that his family didn’t survive the Oct. 7 attacks. “Hostage” is testimony to his suffering and his hope.
A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel.
The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.
In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.
A writer, dissident, teacher and critic, he was deeply affected by an early experience of his life: incarceration as a boy in a concentration camp near Prague.
The popular children’s television show has returned, with Mychal Threets trying to recapture the magic of the original show for a streaming audience.
“When those bugs are crawling on Kate Capshaw in ‘Temple of Doom,’ I’m having the time of my life,” the actress and author said.
His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades.
A new reissue of Siegfried Kracauer’s 1928 novel “Ginster” offers a darkly humorous window into one German conscript’s inglorious journey.
In her two-volume classic, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” Emil Ferris explores a girl’s journey to understand the world, and herself.
Over nearly a half-century, he wrote 10,000 epigrams, none longer than 17 words, and printed them on postcards, T-shirts, mugs and other products.
Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history.
Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.
In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.
After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.
As Kate DiCamillo’s “Because of Winn-Dixie” celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s “Finding Lost” echoes its themes.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Four books — recommended by psychologists and therapists — can help you strengthen your connections.
“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.
His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.
Based on a memoir by Alysia Abbott, the movie chronicles gay liberation and the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a gay man’s daughter.
The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.
In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.
Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.” Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.
Jasmine Ray, who served at City Hall in a $160,000-a-year job, had an undisclosed romance with Eric Adams years before he became mayor. In her memoir, she describes their relationship.
The lawsuit was an effort to keep ‘And Tango Makes Three,’ about two male penguins raising a chick, in a county’s school libraries.
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.
Richard Osman, the author of a beloved murder mystery series, discusses the revolutionary act of growing old.
An exuberant new biography by Jeff Chang charts the action star’s life and legacy as a breakout Asian American celebrity who paved the way for others.
The celebrated author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun.
Jon Stewart, Atsuko Okatsuka and Pete Davidson are just three stars making us laugh this month, while cosplayers and fans assemble for the ultimate geek fest.
Cultural figures, including the authors Gary Shteyngart and Jacqueline Woodson, the actors Ilana Glazer and Leslie Odom Jr., and the Guggenheim curator Naomi Beckwith, share their visions for 2050.
The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.
Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 2 to 4.
His many novels, including the prizewinning “The Butcher’s Boy” and the Jane Whitefield series, can have readers rooting for both protagonist and antagonist.
In “I’m Not Trying to Be Difficult,” the star restaurateur Drew Nieporent evokes a glittering age in Manhattan hospitality.
Whether you’re Team Edward, Team Jacob or just Team Fun Book, these novels offer a similar blend of romance, fantasy and horror.
In “Gotham at War,” Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big Apple.
Lily King’s new novel, “Heart the Lover,” is a profoundly affecting story of romantic entanglement by a master of the genre.
An English translation of Ada Boni’s “The Talisman of Happiness,” an indispensable guide for Italian home cooks since the 1920s, is finally on its way.
Democrats need a new plan for 2028, argues the Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada in this round table from “The Opinions.”
Kamala Harris’s book reveals why she should not be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028, according to the New York Times Opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen in this week’s round table from “The Opinions.”
Abraham Chabon was arrested after a woman accused him of choking and hitting her while sexually assaulting her. He still faces a count of strangulation, and a prosecutor said that the investigation continues.
Is that passage from a poem or a popular song? Try this short quiz to see how many writers you can identify.
New novels by Thomas Pynchon and Brandon Taylor; memoirs by Susan Orlean, Malala Yousafzai and Tim Curry; the conclusion of an epic fantasy series by Philip Pullman; and more.
Our columnist on four notable new releases.
A.I. feels like a runaway train. But we don’t have to let it run over us.
Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.
The novelist talks about the theological arc of her novels and the power of Genesis.
A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark.
His songs have inspired fans for five decades. Now the indefatigable musician delivers the whole story in a 463-page memoir.
No es que la gente no crea el relato de abusos sexuales que Amy Griffin recordó gracias a los alucinógenos ilegales. Pero algo no cuadra.
Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses.
Our columnist on four noteworthy novels.
Based on his popular Substack, the iconoclastic author’s new book is a warning against the dangers of turning innovation into a secular faith.
“Picket Line,” which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time.
A powerhouse Washington lawyer, he negotiated blockbuster contracts for A-list clients, including the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bushes, while often acting as their consigliere.
Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.
In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire.
In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.
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She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel “Rattlebone,” six years later.
The novelist, who wrote about World War II in “Atonement” and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd century in his new book, “What We Can Know.”
The best-selling author Brynne Weaver recommends novels that dial up the emotional drama for high-stakes payoffs.
Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).”
We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows.
“The Office” actor read his essay, “What I Learned at a Fire Ceremony With King Charles,” at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event, encouraging others to re-evaluate their relationship with nature.
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
The company fired Karen Attiah this month for her social media posts related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Raised Buddhist in Texas, Amie Barrodale came to embrace the teachings. Years of practice inform her odd, and oddly funny, debut novel, “Trip.”
Dan Chaon’s latest novel, “One of Us,” dances around a great showman, a demented “uncle” and a cast of fascinating misfits.
In “We Love You, Bunny,” the novelist Mona Awad revisits the gleefully vicious campus satire of her 2019 hit, “Bunny.” We’re all ears.
Amy Griffin wrote a book based on recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Oprah Winfrey and a slew of celebrities promoted it. Then questions arose.
Though Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has seen an exodus of Black residents over the past 15 years, one woman hopes to create a beacon for her community.
That’s often not been the case in recent years.
The nominees for the prestigious award also include novels by David Szalay, Benjamin Markovits and Andrew Miller.
Ilana Masad’s new novel, “Beings,” weaves together three separate story lines to explore how we process and narrate our lives.
In his first book, John J. Lennon, who is serving a 28-year sentence, brings nuance and complexity to his own and other prisoners’ stories.
In Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé,” a young woman is determined to survive the slums — first by doing sex work, then by posting her gruesome reality for the world to see.
‘What We Can Know’ es melodramática y tormentosa. Hay asesinatos, un conato de secuestro, múltiples tramas de venganza, un tesoro enterrado e incendios literarios.
Some novels stick with you long after you’ve read them. See how many of these classics for young readers you can identify from a one-sentence synopsis.
“What We Can Know” follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.
In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life.
The tricky romantic drama in H.S. Cross’s new novel, “Amanda,” aims for both historical sweep and high erotic tension.
In “What’s With Baum?,” an anxious, jealous and thrice-married writer finds himself stranded in a culture that wants more “schmaltz,” less “wisdom.”
An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states.
In the new memoir “Awake,” the evangelical star Jen Hatmaker explores how the implosion of her 26-year marriage helped lead to a spiritual reckoning.
Memoirs don’t have to be guides for living.
“107 days” is not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election.
In “The Waterbearers,” Sasha Bonét weaves her matrilineal history into a larger struggle for survival and self-knowledge.
In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military.
En la novela debut de comedia oscura de Beatriz Serrano, ‘El descontento’, una joven creativa de una agencia de publicidad española hace el mínimo esfuerzo.
In an interview ahead of her new book’s release, former Vice President Kamala Harris warned that President Trump would only grow more emboldened in crushing dissent.
El juez señaló que, en su forma actual, la demanda era “improcedente e inadmisible”. Trump tiene 28 días para presentarla de nuevo.
The popular science author, whose latest is “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” discusses her approach to the stranger corners of scientific inquiry.
More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.
A college player and coach who became a best-selling author, he was also a kindred spirit to the Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson.
The judge said that the complaint failed to contain a “short and plain statement of the claim.” Mr. Trump has 28 days to refile.
The Grand Regency Costumed Promenade in Bath, England, is the showiest and merriest of the celebrations of the writer’s 250th.
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.
A debut novel is the latest in an unbroken string of hits written — and promoted — by the network’s stars. Is that a raw deal for other conservative imprints?
Our critic finds some of the author’s sense and sensibility in this month’s best selections.
Twelve recommendations for fans of the Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club series.
The university had been roiled over a student who filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.
On the set of “All Is Lost,” we sat together in a deflating life raft. That’s when I realized neither of us was prepared for the conversation we were about to have.
Leaders across the political spectrum have figured out how easily they can motivate people with anger, fear and domination.
The new memoir by the former vice president defends her campaign and allows others to criticize Joe Biden and his team for her failure to win.
In her book, coming out next week, she revisited her breakneck campaign, explaining her choices and outlining missteps — of hers and others. She hinted at a return to politics.
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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.