Hanna Bervoets’s latest novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” is a discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see.
Our critic recommends old and new books.
Thanks to Beyoncé, Ralph Lauren and hit shows like “All American: Homecoming,” depictions of Black campus life have moved from “A Different World” to center stage.
A book for “White Lotus” fans, a coming-of-age story in the Canary Islands, Werner Herzog’s debut novel (yes, it’s grim) and more.
Three authors discuss their new novels and what brought them to write about a young woman in trouble, three brothers from Staten Island and an anxious parrot.
The Dominican American family at the center of this debut lives in a New York City neighborhood threatened by luxury condominiums and high-rises.
What do we want from the books we take with us when we travel? They can be a destination, a guide — or the tether that restores us to ourselves.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A look back at some of The New Yorker writer and editor’s most beloved books.
Morton discusses his first work of nonfiction, and Rachel Careau talks about translating “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri,” by Colette.
In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist.
As a collage artist and reviewer, she was an it-girl of avant-garde art. But she turned on that world in 1984 with her salvo of a book, “Has Modernism Failed?”
I was late to the party. Now I’m an evangelist for his work.
Being fired as an advertising executive freed him to write a blistering memoir about his Southern family and an erotic novel that became a best seller.
In the follow-up to “The Idiot,” the protagonist returns to Harvard for another year of exquisite intellectual torment and underwhelming romance.
59E59 Theaters is putting a spotlight on a midcareer artist whose work has seldom been seen locally.
This month’s recommendations feature Viola Davis, a supernatural World War II horror novel and a steamy Jamaican romance.
Robin Peguero’s novel, “With Prejudice,” features a tough-talking prosecutor who says, “The jury is a crew of misfits. The scraps that neither side particularly wanted.”
In Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty,” a young widow stumbles into new life and romance while grieving for her past love.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Her “O Caledonia,” a Gothic coming-of-age story set in Scotland, has been called “one of the best least-known novels of the 20th century.”
A life-size likeness of the pioneering playwright will be unveiled in June as part of a new initiative to honor her legacy.
Frank Miller Presents will revisit a couple of comic book creations of his, like Ronin and Sin City, and start a couple of new series.
In “I’ll Show Myself Out,” the comedy writer explores the joys and travails of life with a small child.
Serhii Plokhy writes about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other disasters, and about the common impulse among governments “to hide information and, later, to spin or distort it.”
Prosecutors are building a follow-the-string murder case against a romance novelist. She says their real story is one about love.
From California’s Central Valley to the Texas-Mexico border to rural North Carolina, fiction anchored by a strong sense of place.
Ben S. Bernanke’s “21st Century Monetary Policy” is an insider’s account of the operations of the Fed.
“His Name Is George Floyd,” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, is a thorough recounting of the life of the man whose brutal murder set off historic protests.
Emma Straub’s new novel, “This Time Tomorrow,” is a love letter to a bygone era on the Upper West Side and a timeless family bond.
The writer discusses what Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” reveals about the fragility of liberal democracy.
Daniel Guebel’s novel “The Absolute” is a sweeping, century-spanning genealogy of creative obsessions.
Klay’s essay collection, “Uncertain Ground,” examines what war has come to mean in the United States.
In “Who Killed Jane Stanford?” Richard White takes on a 1905 murder — and seamy cover-up — that has fascinated scholars for generations.
In Alexander Maksik’s “The Long Corner,” a writer leaves a dreary city for an enigmatic, possibly sinister artists’ colony.
In Audrey Magee’s novel “The Colony,” an artist and a linguist go to work on an Irish island during a politically fraught season.
A new translation by Rachel Careau breathes fresh life into Colette’s shockingly modern novels of May-December love.
Zink’s new novel is about a girl’s life with a menacing stepfamily, an elusive love interest and a great ambition.
An acclaimed author traces a journey away from her native language and discovers new selves in the process.
The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content. Scandal ensued. After a flurry of negotiation, it is now back with its first publisher, McSweeney’s.
Gunn was not a confessional poet, but he spilled his guts in rowdy, funny, filthy, intensely literate correspondence.
“Time Zone J,” by Julie Doucet, and “Flung Out of Space,” by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer, inhabit their feminism in different and fascinating ways.
The antihero of Karen Jennings’s latest builds a stone wall between himself and the world that broke him.
In her memoir, “Mean Baby,” the actor opens up about daily life with multiple sclerosis and the different identities she has juggled all her life.
Authors from 30 countries held an “emergency” meeting at the United Nations to address the multiple crises of the moment — and whether stories can help.
He compiled six books of survivors’ recollections of the 1945 attack. He also founded (without government support) a memorial museum.
Raised in North Dakota and rural Illinois, he was a literary star in New York City in the 1970s. But he left the limelight to raise a family on a North Dakota farm.
A best seller in France, Camille Kouchner’s “The Familia Grande” is an indictment of incest that started a national reckoning.
“Hillbilly Elegy,” a best-selling memoir that became a star-studded film, raised the profile of the onetime “Never Trump guy” who won an Ohio primary with the help of the former president.
“River of the Gods” is a fast-paced tale of the absurdly dangerous quest by two friends turned enemies to solve the geographic riddle of their era.
Images taken in the 1970s and ’80s provide a glimpse into life under autocracy.
Simon Kuper has written a book that captures Boris Johnson and other future Conservative politicians when they were ambitious and misbehaving undergrads, planning their rise to power.
Paul Craddock’s gory and engrossing “Spare Parts” takes on ancient skin grafts, modern plastic surgery and everything in between.
A biographer of the nationalist novelist Yukio Mishima, he was Tokyo bureau chief for three major newspapers and, afterward, was no stranger to controversy.
The filmmaker and author’s latest book is “Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.”
Paul Kennedy’s “Victory at Sea” is a sweeping, encyclopedic account of how six major navies fought World War II.
Stacy McAnulty’s “Save the People!” employs humor to call middle grade readers to action.
In “Answers in the Pages,” a fifth-grade boy and his classmates speak up against parents’ efforts to censor their curriculum.
The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel explores a complex web of relationships. Figuring out how to bring them to life was just as knotty.
In 1961, she played a vixenish fortune hunter. In 1998, she played the character’s mother. In between, she kept busy on TV and also wrote novels.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A conversation with the philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about how “elite capture” has changed the conversation about social justice.
Francis Fukuyama’s new book joins several from recent years in defining liberalism and arguing for its continued relevance.
A conversation about the urge to accumulate treasured items and the stories objects can hold.
Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His focus now is on solving real problems — like climate change.
Debut novels expose dangerous, psychologically twisted, almost gothic sides of sex.
A scientist and policy analyst examines the systems that rule our world, denounces easy solutions and makes the case for uncertainty.
A selection of books published this week.
A new book about Anna Wintour and another by a longtime editor at Vanity Fair arrive amid the accelerating erosion of an industry.
In a new book, the political theorist offers a stout defense of liberalism against threats from left and right — and predicts that Ukraine will revive “the spirit of 1989.”
An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found.
In “The Hurting Kind,” Ada Limón stands with her readers before the frightening mysteries and hopeful uncertainties of the everyday.
“Saint Sebastian’s Abyss,” by Mark Haber, and “The Longcut,” by Emily Hall, are narrated by intense devotees of art.
In Fernanda Melchor’s novel “Paradais,” there are no angels, only devils of different variety.
In Jokha Alharthi’s novel “Bitter Orange Tree,” thwarted desires are passed down through generations.
In Ken Kalfus’s novel “2 A.M. in Little America,” a civil war in the United States has led to mass migration in an unfriendly world.
“The Partition,” Lee’s new story collection, is a return to form, offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Asian American life.
“Time Shelter,” a novel by the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, considers whether nostalgia is curative or pernicious.
The 41-year-old playwright’s show “Fat Ham,” set at a Southern barbecue, hasn’t even had an in-person production yet because of the pandemic.
Joshua Cohen’s novel “The Netanyahus” won the fiction prize, and the Times reporter Andrea Elliott won the general nonfiction award for “Invisible Child.”
As a writer and intellectual, she abandoned liberal politics, challenged the women’s movement and championed the Reagan Republican agenda.
Batuman’s follow-up to “The Idiot” follows the same character into her second year at Harvard.
In Casey McQuiston’s Y.A. debut, “I Kissed Shara Wheeler,” a queer teenage rebel is on the hunt to find her school’s missing golden girl, who, it turns out, is hiding a few secrets.
In “The Mind and the Moon,” Daniel Bergner explores how much we know — and how much we don’t — about mental health.
Mark Esper, exsecretario de Defensa, lanza sus memorias sobre cómo fue trabajar al lado de Trump y cuenta una serie de excesos y equivocaciones que presenció durante su gestión.
“Art must leave a wound,” said the author, one of the most celebrated in new Latin American literature.
In Chris Bohjalian’s new novel, “The Lioness,” a trip to the Serengeti turns bloody.
A dream reading list for all the budding intellectuals out there — and their parents.
Diaz talks about his second novel, and Paul Fischer discusses “The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures.”
Our critic recommends old and new books.
A growing cohort of young enthusiasts is helping to shape the future of an antique trade.
An online fracas over a book review is the latest blowup in a field that has been roiled in recent years with acrimonious debate over race.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Three new story collections explore the vagaries of daily struggles.
On tour for her sixth book, Limón talks about how poetry, in the end, is “just telling somebody something.” Listen to her read some of her work.
The first book in A.F. Steadman’s middle grade fantasy series will enthrall young readers who are ready to put away childish things.
In Tae Keller’s “Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone,” believing in aliens is less scary than fitting in.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What did our reporter find when he visited more than 30 stores? Quirky meccas devoted to DC and Marvel releases, vintage issues and eye-popping collectibles.
The physicist ranges widely — from black holes to Buddhism to climate change — in his new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.”
Fiction that grapples with abortion, fertility, motherhood and reproductive rights illuminates the debate from different viewpoints.
Now the actor and musician is a best-selling author.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court legalized abortion. The decision has since divided the country. Now that the issue is before the court again, here are 10 books that help frame the debate.
“My family has too many,” says the author, whose latest narrative history is “River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.”
You can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give you hope. But her poems don’t give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; her hope is hard-earned.
Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells the life story of the trailblazing choreographer Bronislava Nijinska.
He brought an earthy realism (and a new adversary or two) to the superhero characters he drew. He also championed the rights of comic book creators.
He published Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs in the late 1950s. The university that oversaw his journal was not pleased with the “Naked Lunch” excerpt.
New York City tenants have been tossed out of their homes in more than 500 cases since the eviction moratorium was lifted.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Ali Smith’s new novel, “Companion Piece,” is set in a pandemic-ravaged, post-Brexit Britain, with a perplexing choice at its center.
Rax King can allude to Updike and Odysseus, but in these essays she is far more concerned with Creed, Snooki and the Cheesecake Factory.
In Elizabeth Day’s psychological thriller, “Magpie,” an obsessive, boundary-pushing lodger upends the lives of a picture-perfect couple trying to have a baby.
Eight years after her Y.A. psychological thriller “We Were Liars,” E. Lockhart returns with a prequel, “Family of Liars.”
Maia Kobabe’s book “Gender Queer,” about coming out as nonbinary, landed the author at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools, and who gets to make that decision.
Readers respond to Pamela Paul’s first column, about “lived experience.” Also: Those who golf; women’s office clothing.
A new history of the trillion-dollar company in the wake of Steve Jobs.
In Michelle Hart’s debut novel, “We Do What We Do in the Dark,” a grieving college student falls for a married woman who happens to be a professor.
A selection of books published this week.
It depends on whom you ask.
In Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel’s real-life whodunit “Dead in the Water,” Big Oil, Big Insurance and global corruption clash on a giant scale.
Vauhini Vara’s “The Immortal King Rao” is about a lot of things, from a father-daughter bond to the end of human civilization.
In her new novel, “Vigil Harbor,” Julia Glass imagines a not-so-distant future when a New England town is wracked by crises.
Two new books trace the evolution of the industry from the perspective of women who worked in it.
Set mostly in western Ireland, Colin Barrett’s second collection is a painterly portrait of characters on the edge.
In Mieko Kawakami’s latest, a woman tries to shed her loneliness by drinking a lot.
John Gleeson’s “The Gotti Wars” is a memoir about what it took to jail America’s star gangster.
Antonia Fraser’s “The Case of the Married Woman” tells the story of Caroline Norton, who scandalized 19th-century London society — and upended its laws.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
“Troublemaker,” about a 12-year-old Korean American boy in post-Rodney King Los Angeles, rebuts the model minority myth.
In “Hilde on the Record: Memoir of a Kid Crime Reporter,” Hilde Lysiak cracks her own case.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Walter Isaacson, a biographer who has written about Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, is working on a book about the world’s richest man.
This documentary makes it clear why, when the pandemic threatened Matthew Tannenbaum’s store, book lovers weren’t ready to say goodbye.
“Everything she wrote then matters now,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “The Good Left Undone.” “The great writers can see into the future.”
Novels from Ali Smith, Jean Hanff Korelitz and Mieko Kawakami; a debut Y.A. romance by Casey McQuiston; a sequel to Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot” and much more.
At a time when they have become a popular accessory for celebrities to carry, books are also gaining appeal as a takeaway for wedding guests.
In “True Biz,” the author, who is deaf, conjures the characters she wishes she’d known as she lost her hearing.
These historical novels feature an Irish soldier haunted by his time in the trenches, a young expat who witnesses a crucial period of change and a book that narrowly escaped burning in Nazi Germany.
A Texan raised in two cultures in the Rio Grande Valley border county, he wrote 15 novels about the area and became a major figure in Chicano literature.
A new FX mini-series adapts the investigative book by Jon Krakauer. He and the creator, Dustin Lance Black, talked about their efforts to get at the truth.
Readers discuss a student’s guest essay urging that books be judged on their merits, not political ideology. Also: German car companies; pay gap for mothers.
Dyer’s new book is about last games, last performances and last works — with plenty of detours through other subjects.
In Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, a boy from rural India becomes a tech mogul in a world consumed by Big Tech. What seemed impossible, she said, has become real, in life and in technology.
In Julie Phillips’s group portrait, Alice Neel, Doris Lessing, Ursula Le Guin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Angela Carter take on making art while parenting.
From a mysterious suicide to P.T.S.D. to a folkloric antihero: Four new novels explore different kinds of haunting.
In his memoir, “Chosen,” Stephen Mills recalls summers at a Connecticut camp led by a director who abused him while befriending his family.