A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results.
In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color.
Learning about our family’s past can connect us to the turmoil and difference that have always been America’s story.
With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed.
A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.”
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
After 180 years, “Wuthering Heights” retains its ability to shock because it tells the truth about how deeply strange love can be.
The heart is not romance; it’s the organ that guards the line between life and death.
A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular success.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the author appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about her books and the Netflix phenomenon they sparked.
Before leaving The Times after 22 years, David Brooks responds to readers’ questions.
A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.
“Cinnamon roll,” “Oops! there’s only one bed,” “HFN” — how much do you know about romance literature? Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, guides you through her 101-word glossary.
“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”
El autor turco tardó años en conseguir la adaptación correcta para una de sus más famosas novelas, la cual llegará a pantallas como una serie de nueve capítulos.
Este formato, alguna vez el más popular entre los lectores, está cerca de la extinción en Estados Unidos.
The character’s racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film’s casting is “whitewashing.” But what does the original novel really say?
Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic give the March sisters’ story a darker and more contemporary spin.
From cinnamon rolls to stern brunch daddies, here are 101 terms you should know to understand the popular literary genre.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A death doula reflects on the many ways people process loss — even when tears don’t come.
The actor and Jacob Elordi play the tortured lovers from the Emily Brontë classic in this florid, overstuffed version by Emerald Fennell.
In “End of Days,” Chris Jennings recounts how a collision between apocalyptic Christianity and federal overreach led to a deadly standoff in Idaho.
Según un nuevo libro, si quieres sentirte más amado y más feliz no debes intentar cambiar a nadie. Mejor cambia las conversaciones.
After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms.
In “Emilio Pucci,” the subject’s niece and her husband explore the early life of the Italian designer who dressed the jet set.
What’s a publisher to do when a novel hews close to the news cycle?
A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary’s infamous “blood countess,” separating fact from myth.
Rebecca Novack’s novel, “Murder Bimbo,” is a devious and outrageously entertaining satire that skewers America’s surreal political landscape.
In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson.
His book about time-traveling dinosaurs became a movie. He also adapted the Broadway show “Into the Woods” for young readers and wrote about his struggles with dyslexia.
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
A new book, “How to Feel Loved,” links our social skills to how content we are.
The acclaimed writer discusses the limits of kindness and the foundations of sin.
A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
El autor, quien dio proyección mundial a la literatura japonesa, reflexiona sobre el envejecimiento y su lugar en el mundo de las letras.
Test your memory of romance-related lines from five novels and stories.
The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It’s not.
Gurnaik Johal follows seven characters in interconnected narratives about climate change and the rise of authoritarianism.
Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.
Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.
As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but “A Better Life” feels full of easy targets.
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the built world with a wary eye.
He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912.
In her new novel in stories, “This Is Not About Us,” Allegra Goodman traces the small but vivid dramas of one sprawling Jewish family.
In his new novel, Jonathan Miles considers the complicated ethics and logistics of eliminating an invasive species.
Video games are big business, and the company behind Mario, Zelda and Pokémon may be the most important player, says the author of a new corporate history.
Our books reporter Elizabeth A. Harris explores the disappearance of mass market paperbacks — and talks with Stephen King about what paperbacks have meant to him.
Thirteen recommendations for fans of the Smile series.
The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again.
A political reporter at The Washington Post, she also wrote “Long Time Passing,” about the Vietnam War’s social, political and psychological aftereffects.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here’s where to start.
Glamour, silence and a very big hat.
In “A Killing in Cannabis,” Scott Eden tells the story of a man who tried to straddle the lines between the legal and black-market cannabis worlds, with deadly consequences.
“I love to fall asleep with a book nearby,” says the “Autobiography of Cotton” author. “Dreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways.”
The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.
A recent production of “Othello” proves that small creative flowers can grow between the dreary slabs of cultural concrete laid by the Communist Party.
A number of potential presidential candidates are releasing memoirs as the shadow primary heats up.
Catherine and Heathcliff are returning to the screen, but their passion burns brightest in a handful of sentences from Emily Brontë’s novel.
In “Bernie for Burlington,” Dan Chiasson’s affection for his subject risks turning history into a sales pitch.
In “The Family Snitch,” the reporter Francesca Fontana delves into her father’s criminal history — and their complicated, painful relationship.
Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.
The pioneering photographer André Kertész is the subject of a new book by Patricia Albers.
A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.
“A Reddit for A.I.” social media platform has taken the internet by storm. But we’re not having the right conversations about it.
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
The death of an Afghan American teenager exposes the limits of assimilation and acceptance in Patmeena Sabit’s panoramic novel, “Good People.”
Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering,” shares her advice for orchestrating more meaningful gatherings and why that matters for our civic life, as well as our social lives.
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin.
Daniel Poppick’s novel, “The Copywriter,” peeks into a writer’s journal as he navigates his everyday life and a tumultuous period in American history.
Five women reckon with the joys, struggles and shifting priorities of adulthood in Emily Nemens’s new novel, “Clutch.”
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Test your knowledge of both popular thrillers and U.S. geography with this short quiz.
In his new book, the writer goes deep on a sport that dominates American cultural life — but possibly not for long.
La nueva novela de Saunders sitúa a un poderoso magnate petrolero frente a un ángel, en una historia que privilegia el consuelo sobre la complejidad.
It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.
Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident,” was one of several people detained after signing a letter objecting to the crackdown on protests.
A storyteller of modern America’s underbelly with a literary, ruminative style, he inspired a Ryan Gosling movie and earned critical acclaim.
Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for children.
His introspective memoir tries to challenge the conventional wisdom about his upbringing, explores his marriages and airs a little dirty laundry — but says relatively little about politics.
Mr. Newsom, the California governor and a potential presidential candidate, writes that the privileged caricature of his background is mistaken.
In the slyly charming “The End of Romance,” Lily Meyer puts a graduate student with big ideas about love and autonomy to the personal test.
Let’s talk about the new and old shows we’ll be watching this winter.
Our columnist on three excellent, twisty new novels.
“Superfan,” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang, explores the parallel struggles of a K-Pop-inspired star and the lonely college student who adores him.
A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
In this debut novel, set in 1700s England, five sisters are rumored to turn into a pack of dogs.
In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Emily Brontë’s Gothic story of love and revenge.
In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.
In his long-awaited follow-up to “We Are the Ship,” Kadir Nelson paints people, places and endeavors relegated to oblivion’s sidelines back onto the hardwood.
An appellate court ruled that the firing of the former assistant principal of an elementary school in Mississippi in 2022 had been “arbitrary and capricious.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The intellectual property of Will Eisner, who gives his name to the most prestigious award in American comics, is up for sale.
La visión del mundo de los magos es ingenua.
To prepare for Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation, readers are seeking out Emily Brontë’s Gothic novel — and the “unhinged gossip” it contains.
Previously unpublished Toni Morrison; fiction by Tayari Jones, Lauren Groff and Mario Vargas Llosa; Gavin Newsom’s memoir; and more.
These unforgettable thrillers set in remote locations will make you think twice about where to vacation this year.
Politically pointed and heavy on his Jewish faith, the book already has Democrats talking.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s poetry, performance and films inspired generations of artists. Never forgotten after her murder, a new exhibition sheds light on her legacy.
Two new books delve into our primal desire to feel valued and worthy of attention.
Our columnist on four standout new releases.
Nearly half a century before “Heated Rivalry” skated its way to screens, a budding literary talent pseudonymously published some sporty smut of his own.
In “Hated by All the Right People,” the journalist Jason Zengerle looks at the conservative pundit’s many transformations.
In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends surrounding a complex ancient culture.
In “Until the Last Gun Is Silent,” Matthew F. Delmont shows how the conflict consumed a civil rights leader and tore a soldier apart.
As you consider last week’s nominations for the Academy Awards, test your knowledge of works that inspired previous winners with this short quiz.
In “Vigil,” an oil tycoon on his deathbed receives a visit from an angel.
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
An artist knocked off her path by a manipulative professor is at the center of Larissa Pham’s spare and troubling new book, “Discipline.”
She was known for her lavish parties and her marriage to one of the richest men in San Francisco. After he left her, she found a new purpose: visiting world leaders to plead for peace.
En 1961, el autor dedicó un ejemplar de ‘El viejo y el mar’ a sor Inmaculada, una enfermera que lo atendió en la Clínica Mayo. El libro se donará al Museo Nobel.
Our critic on four excellent new novels.
The pop culture critic discusses his new book about the sport and its place in American culture.
In 1961, the author inscribed a book for the sister, a nurse who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic. Her copy of “The Old Man and the Sea” is being donated to the Nobel Museum.
The author Janie Chang recommends novels about people who push back against the expectations of their time.
Like the flakes themselves, no two are the same.
After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publishing seven foundational books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.
“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.
A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).
Hollywood used to be vexed by political debates. These days it turns both sides into frothy, cartoonish entertainment.
Our columnist read “The Everlasting” too late to put it on her Best of 2025 list. She’s sorry!
Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today.
Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.
Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley.
See how many novels you can connect with phrases from the plays of William Shakespeare.
In “Two Women Living Together,” the authors reflect on the joys of platonic cohabitation.
Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism.
In “The Flower Bearers,” Rachel Eliza Griffiths addresses her starry, tragedy-marred marriage but also a life steeped in art, poetry and deep friendships.
In Emanuela Anechoum’s novel, “Tangerinn,” an Italian Moroccan woman examines her family’s legacy of immigration, and tries to find a place in the world.
“Eating Ashes,” by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.
In her debut, Angela Tomaski puts a quirky spin on Gothic storytelling.
Julian Barnes writes about illness and love in “Departure(s),” which he claims is his last novel.
At the request of Thompson’s widow, the Colorado authorities are re-examining his death. “The whole Hunter world is buzzing,” a lawyer said.
In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name.
Jennette McCurdy follows “I’m Glad My Mom Died” with “Half His Age,” a debut novel that confirms her gift as a chronicler of disaffected girlhood.
For one writer, the story of a Washington man keeping an old craft alive struck something personal.
The author of the memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died” hopes her debut novel, about a teen’s sexual relationship with her teacher, will make readers uncomfortable.
If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.
That’s often not been the case in recent years.
An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.
In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.
In his memoir, “Unleashed,” the former prime minister is “optimistic” about the possibility that Donald J. Trump could regain the White House.
El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.