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Oct 11, 2025
"Spunk," a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.
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Oct 11, 2025
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
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Oct 11, 2025
The devil, Prada-clad or not, stays on the periphery of Caroline Palmer's "Workhorse," a novel about an ambitious assistant at a Vogue-like publication.
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Oct 11, 2025
In "Splendid Liberators," Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to spread freedom across the world.
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Oct 10, 2025
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak and challenging. But they're also comical and deeply human.
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Oct 10, 2025
"Minor Black Figures" encompasses race, class, religion and art, but at its heart it's really about "what happens when you encounter a priest at a bar one hazy summer night in New York."
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Oct 10, 2025
In "The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus," Matthew Restall explores the seemingly immortal reputation of one of history's most projected-on figures.
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Oct 10, 2025
The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.
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Oct 10, 2025
"I wanted to tell a story that encompassed the gender spectrum," said Tonatiuh, who transformed his body to play the queer window dresser Luis Molina.
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Oct 10, 2025
In Brandon Taylor's new novel, "Minor Black Figures," an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.
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Oct 10, 2025
The author of the Seeds of America trilogy recommends books that run the gamut from Native American history to the civil rights movement.
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Oct 09, 2025
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. "Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?" she asked.
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Oct 09, 2025
County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.
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Oct 09, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 09, 2025
?The prize committee said the Hungarian writer's work "reaffirms the power of art."
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Oct 09, 2025
In Jacqueline Harpman's novel "Orlanda," the repressed half of a woman's soul jumps into the body of a man. Chaos ensues.
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Oct 09, 2025
Sharing the plot of the 20th "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book had him cringing at the memory of ruining a birthday surprise. Also surprising: the O.J. Simpson book on his shelves.
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Oct 08, 2025
Our columnist on notable new releases.
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Oct 08, 2025
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.
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Oct 08, 2025
To write "Paper Girl," Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.
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Oct 08, 2025
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.
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Oct 07, 2025
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.
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Oct 07, 2025
The novelist Richard Osman talks about his best-selling series, which stars a team of crime-solving retirees.
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Oct 07, 2025
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.
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Oct 07, 2025
"Black Arms to Hold You Up," the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.
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Oct 07, 2025
In "The Conservative Frontier," Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.
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Oct 07, 2025
In "Race Against Terror," Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.
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Oct 07, 2025
Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.
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Oct 06, 2025
A prolific British writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy "Rutshire Chronicles" series.
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Oct 06, 2025
The awards are being announced this week.
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Oct 06, 2025
A prolific writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy "Rutshire Chronicles" series.
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Oct 06, 2025
The author of "I Love Dick" returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.
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Oct 06, 2025
Vincenzo Latronico captures his generation's desire for an exquisite lifestyle — and pokes fun at it.
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Oct 06, 2025
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.
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Oct 06, 2025
In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.
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Oct 06, 2025
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.
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Oct 06, 2025
A cheeky narrator recounts a parent's worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano's new novel.
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Oct 05, 2025
The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.
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Oct 05, 2025
In the autofictional "Death and the Gardener," the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.
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Oct 05, 2025
Cory Doctorow's new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.
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Oct 04, 2025
The popular children's television show has returned, with Mychal Threets trying to recapture the magic of the original show for a streaming audience.
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Oct 04, 2025
"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.
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Oct 04, 2025
His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades.
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Oct 04, 2025
The Fort Lauderdale museum, one of the country's oldest L.G.B.T.Q. institutions, is looking to its rich archives for lessons in how to survive a crisis. Here's a look inside its collection.
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Oct 04, 2025
A new reissue of Siegfried Kracauer's 1928 novel "Ginster" offers a darkly humorous window into one German conscript's inglorious journey.
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Oct 03, 2025
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.
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Oct 03, 2025
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.
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Oct 03, 2025
Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.
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Oct 03, 2025
In a new biography, "It Girl," the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.
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Oct 03, 2025
After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.
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Oct 03, 2025
As Kate DiCamillo's "Because of Winn-Dixie" celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan's "Finding Lost" echoes its themes.
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Oct 02, 2025
"Shadow Ticket" follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.
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Oct 02, 2025
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.
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Oct 02, 2025
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.
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Oct 02, 2025
In "Goliath's Curse," Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.
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Oct 02, 2025
Marvel's White Tiger, frog sorcery, Indigenous tales and more are in "¡Wepa!," coming to New York Public Library, spotlighting work by or about the island.
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Oct 02, 2025
Why? Curiosity, "general impatience and all-around quirkiness." Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.
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Oct 01, 2025
The lawsuit was an effort to keep ‘And Tango Makes Three,' about two male penguins raising a chick, in a county's school libraries.
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Oct 01, 2025
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.
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Oct 01, 2025
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.
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Oct 01, 2025
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.
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Oct 01, 2025
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.
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Oct 01, 2025
The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.
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Oct 01, 2025
The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares.
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Oct 01, 2025
Here are some of our staff's favorites, for ages 2 to 4.
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Sep 30, 2025
His many novels, including the prizewinning "The Butcher's Boy" and the Jane Whitefield series, can have readers rooting for both protagonist and antagonist.
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Sep 30, 2025
In "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult," the star restaurateur Drew Nieporent evokes a glittering age in Manhattan hospitality.
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Sep 30, 2025
Whether you're Team Edward, Team Jacob or just Team Fun Book, these novels offer a similar blend of romance, fantasy and horror.
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Sep 30, 2025
In "Gotham at War," Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big Apple.
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Sep 30, 2025
Lily King's new novel, "Heart the Lover," is a profoundly affecting story of romantic entanglement by a master of the genre.
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Sep 29, 2025
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.
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Sep 29, 2025
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.
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Sep 29, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new releases.
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Sep 28, 2025
A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" creator Muriel Spark.
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Sep 28, 2025
His songs have inspired fans for five decades. Now the indefatigable musician delivers the whole story in a 463-page memoir.
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Sep 27, 2025
Our columnist on four noteworthy novels.
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Sep 27, 2025
Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.
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Sep 27, 2025
Based on his popular Substack, the iconoclastic author's new book is a warning against the dangers of turning innovation into a secular faith.
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Sep 27, 2025
"Picket Line," which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time.
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Sep 26, 2025
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.
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Sep 26, 2025
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.
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Sep 26, 2025
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.
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Sep 26, 2025
The Broadway play "Punch" retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.
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Sep 26, 2025
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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Sep 25, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 25, 2025
She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel "Rattlebone," six years later.
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Sep 25, 2025
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."
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Sep 25, 2025
The best-selling author Brynne Weaver recommends novels that dial up the emotional drama for high-stakes payoffs.
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Sep 25, 2025
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)."
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Sep 24, 2025
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.
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Sep 24, 2025
Raised Buddhist in Texas, Amie Barrodale came to embrace the teachings. Years of practice inform her odd, and oddly funny, debut novel, "Trip."
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Sep 24, 2025
Dan Chaon's latest novel, "One of Us," dances around a great showman, a demented "uncle" and a cast of fascinating misfits.
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Sep 24, 2025
In "We Love You, Bunny," the novelist Mona Awad revisits the gleefully vicious campus satire of her 2019 hit, "Bunny." We're all ears.
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Sep 23, 2025
The nominees for the prestigious award also include novels by David Szalay, Benjamin Markovits and Andrew Miller.
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Sep 23, 2025
Ilana Masad's new novel, "Beings," weaves together three separate story lines to explore how we process and narrate our lives.
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Sep 23, 2025
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.
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Sep 23, 2025
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.
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Sep 22, 2025
"What We Can Know" follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.
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Sep 22, 2025
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.
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Sep 21, 2025
The tricky romantic drama in H.S. Cross's new novel, "Amanda," aims for both historical sweep and high erotic tension.
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