Casi todas las ideologías pueden esgrimirse para hacer sentir a las mujeres que están fracasando.
The vice president’s book, to be released in June, will detail his return to Christianity after leaving the loosely evangelical practice of his childhood.
Books by Marie NDiaye, Daniel Kehlmann and Rene Karabash are among the shortlisted titles for the major award for fiction translated into English.
Yann Martel’s “Son of Nobody” joins many recent books that reimagine the classics, but offers a Nabokovian twist.
The sloppy, solipsistic narrator of Kirsten King’s novel, “A Good Person,” casts a witchy spell on a guy who dumped her. Hours later, he’s been stabbed to death.
El autor de ciencia ficción habla de ‘Proyecto Hail Mary”, su novela científica que fue adaptada en una película protagonizada por Ryan Gosling.
Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.
Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.
Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.
Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers.
The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul.
Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.
Eddie Murphy, Snoop Dogg and Bill Clinton (naturally) show up in his gossipy new memoir. He isn’t very sentimental.
Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.
Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.
Trained as a playwright, he got his first TV writing job on “St. Elsewhere,” then worked on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Wire,” “Treme” and “Bosch.”
The planners of the Iran war had plenty of on-the-ground intelligence but operated with little insight into the minds of their enemies.
In “Transcription,” Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication.
Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.
“The Keeper,” the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, returns readers to an insular village in rural western Ireland.
If you’ve blazed through all of the beloved crime novelist’s works, here are more thrillers that may be up your dark alley.
George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.
Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.
Jones’s new novel follows two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
A film director, movie theorist and author, he was widely regarded as one of his country’s towering artists and intellectuals.
Although he did not speak a word of Persian, his interpretations of the 13th-century mystic’s work made Rumi a New Age icon for millions.
If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.
After a disappointing movie adaptation, the Norwegian author took the reins as showrunner in a new Netflix series based on his Detective Hole books.
In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan’s novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell.
Our columnist on the month’s best books.
Philip Stead’s “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” gleefully ignores all the storytelling rules.
Scouring estate sales, eBay and family basements, Rhae Lynn Barnes amassed a disturbing collection to write “Darkology,” her groundbreaking new book.
This year’s winners include the latest novel by the South Korean Nobel laureate in literature and a memoir by one of India’s best known novelists.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A new play at the Public Theater written by Michael J. Chepiga and the former ambassador Julissa Reynoso is a diplomatic memoir of sorts, and a meditation on loving one’s country.
The books, about astronomy and other topics, were written in Chinese by Jesuit missionaries who shared information on science as part of their effort to spread Christianity.
In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become.
The author Elizabeth Arnott recommends thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being.”
In an announcement video with the director Peter Jackson, the late-night host said he was developing a new film based on early chapters of the trilogy.
The writer, and the artist JD Beltran, have come up with Art + Water, to host exhibitions, give 30 artists studio space, and offer community events.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
As more A.I. generated writing is unleashed on the world, more readers will question who — or what — has penned their favorite works.
A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless growth impossible to sustain.
In “How Flowers Made Our World,” David George Haskell makes a case for their soft power.
Just in time for Opening Day, Robert Coover’s prescient 1968 baseball novel is back in print.
When it comes to breaking news, it’s a race not only to get the story, but to record it. We tracked down some of the speediest fingers in our newsroom.
The actor and narrator stepped back into his breakout role for a new audiobook edition of Stephen King's bittersweet classic. Here, he breaks down some favorite scenes.
“American Men,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, and “Who Needs Friends,” by Andrew McCarthy, report from the front lines of the epidemic of male loneliness.
In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators.
How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.
“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos.
Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.
In Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “Almost Life,” a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs.
Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.
Try this short quiz on comic-book characters who made the leap to television.
Donald Trump’s insults alway say more about him than the people he is trying to mock.
A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life.
Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.
In “Playmakers,” Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)
Autores superventas y galardonados nos explicaron por qué tener un perro es importante para su escritura.
En su exitoso libro ‘El arte sueco de ordenar antes de morir’, Margareta Magnusson animaba a los lectores a realizar una limpieza profunda ante una posible partida. La autora ha muerto a los 91 años.
“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?
Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles’s anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today.
The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling, is on pace to be the company’s highest-grossing domestic film.
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.
In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.
Our critic on three terrific new mysteries and a gem-filled story collection.
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Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme.
On the staff of The New Yorker for more than 60 years, he wrote about Duchamp, Rauschenberg and many others. His books include “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”
Plus, a buzzy new book was just canceled over A.I. allegations.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.
Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin’s iconic paperback series.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.
A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.
The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone’s favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.
“I have written six books and counting just because I was very annoyed at how a character was written in a video game,” she says. Her “disgusting” new novel is “Wolf Worm.”
“Paradiso 17,” by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré.
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.
Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination.
En sus galardonados libros, aportó una visión desde dentro a las historias sobre la indiferencia de la élite de su país y el sufrimiento silencioso de las clases más desfavorecidas.
“The other Peruvian” (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and the quiet suffering of the classes underneath.
During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis.
His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
In “Chain of Ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.
In a new book, Caroline Tracey explores the mysteries and beauty of salt lakes.
Try this short quiz on some of Ireland’s most memorable verses from its celebrated poets.
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Sisters in Yellow” follows a group of dreaming and scheming young women through society’s margins.
What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.
In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.
She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
Charlotte Wood’s “The Natural Way of Things” conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.
Her best-selling book on the subject encouraged the world to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks process and “Planet of the Apes.”
Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.
From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.
Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, “Night Night Fawn,” approaches a closed-minded matriarch with compassion, even at her child’s expense.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
A 1967 correspondence led Cat Sebastian to imagine a contemporary scenario in which two sci-fi actors find more than screen chemistry.
The best-selling author Lisa Unger recommends her favorite dark and stormy thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and more.
A writer and critic, Mr. Koch struggled for years to shepherd his friend Peter Hujar’s underappreciated, Bohemian-world artwork to posthumous glory.
His best-known work, “The Wall Jumper,” proved prescient in its contention that the country would remain split even after reunification.
In “View from the East Wing,” the former first lady will recount her time in the White House and share her views on the 2024 presidential race.
He moved easily and prolifically through science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, crime and historical fiction. His book “The Terror” was made into a cable TV series.
In an affecting new memoir, Tom Junod, a prizewinning magazine writer, grapples with unsettling discoveries about his larger-than-life dad.
From his perch in Hawaii, the hero of Patricia Finn’s first novel, “The Golden Boy,” revisits his dark past in rural Ontario.
En la televisión, el cine y las novelas populares, el contenido sexual es más abundante que nunca. ¿Qué pasa cuando nuestras pantallas son más ardientes que nuestros dormitorios?
In Andrew Martin’s keenly observed new novel, a group of friends navigate a society reshaped by the pandemic.
“Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!” is a familiar reminder that growing up in showbiz can lead to awards and adulation, but also to heartache.
Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex,” tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India.
“Nonesuch,” the new novel by Francis Spufford, conjures a plot laced with magic to change the course of history.
Greg Greeley, who once ran Amazon’s books and media business, will succeed Jonathan Karp as chief executive at one of the largest book publishers in the U.S.
Try this short quiz on very long books.
“Gunk,” a novel by Saba Sams, follows a woman through the trials and tenuous jobs of young adulthood.
In “Whidbey,” three women reckon with the aftermath of sexual assault.
La escritora chilena recibió el galardón en 1945 por tres sonetos publicados inicialmente en Chile en 1922.
I imagine the birds I see are the family members I’ve lost.
Mark Oppenheimer had many conversations with his subject for his new book. Then the relationship took a turn.
The 1,000th Connections puzzle is out today. Wyna Liu, the writer behind the game, knows you have thoughts.
Bill Lawrence, the man behind comedies-with-heart like “Scrubs” and “Ted Lasso,” is in the midst of a career renaissance. He has five shows on the air now, including “Rooster” with Steve Carell.
A newly released collection of the Australian master’s short fiction shows her sympathy, her virtuosity and her ear.
In a wide-ranging career, he was a Boston lawyer, a Hollywood screenwriter and a Swiss currency trader.
His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.
Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.
Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.
Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, “America’s Founding Son,” feels so relevant.
Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.
One of the first female war correspondents, she covered a dozen major conflicts during a career that spanned more than six decades.
She was best known for her trip around the world in 1889, which she completed in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes.
A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.
She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, “Excuse My Dust.”
Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.
Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.
An iconoclastic journalist, she was known for her war coverage and her aggressive, revealing interviews with the powerful.
She was recognized in 1945 for three “Soñetos de la Muerte” (“Sonnets of Death”), which were first published in Chile in 1922.
She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements.
She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.