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Nov 12, 2024
Most bets were on Percival Everett's "James," but the judges chose Harvey's "beautiful, miraculous" novel, which is set aboard a space station.
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Nov 12, 2024
Most bets were on Percival Everett's "James," but the judges chose Harvey's "beautiful, miraculous" novel, which is set aboard a space station.
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Nov 12, 2024
"Set My Heart on Fire" follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships.
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Nov 12, 2024
In "Four Points of the Compass," Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.
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Nov 12, 2024
Sergio De La Pava's novel "Every Arc Bends Its Radian" is a detective story that takes a strange turn in Colombia's dark underbelly.
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Nov 11, 2024
The celebrity chef's second children's book, "Billy and the Epic Escape," faced accusations that it stereotyped First Nations people in Australia.
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Nov 11, 2024
In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles the rise of an indispensable band and the evolution of its music.
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Nov 11, 2024
Percival Everett's "James" is favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner's "Creation Lake" or Samantha Harvey's "Orbital" could take the prize instead.
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Nov 11, 2024
Peter Brown's obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including "The Wild Robot," which is now a blockbuster movie.
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Nov 11, 2024
Our columnist on a handful of recently reissued crime novels, all of which are worth your time.
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Nov 11, 2024
What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan's pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood.
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Nov 10, 2024
He memorably portrayed a frizzy-haired science teacher roping her elementary school class into adventures aboard a shape-shifting yellow bus.
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Nov 10, 2024
In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.
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Nov 10, 2024
In a dual biography, the journalist Lili Anolik casts the two writers as opposite sides of the same ambitious, 1960s-Hollywood coin.
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Nov 10, 2024
In "Stranger Than Fiction," Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.
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Nov 09, 2024
As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor's year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.
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Nov 09, 2024
In "The Magnificent Ruins," an Indian expatriate reunites with her estranged family after her grandfather unexpectedly made her heir to his estate.
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Nov 09, 2024
Esther Kinsky reflects on the nature of seeing in a book about an old cinema in Hungary.
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Nov 09, 2024
In "Heartbreak Is the National Anthem," Rob Sheffield chronicles how Taylor Swift has made fans, foes and even journalists part of her story.
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Nov 08, 2024
She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.
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Nov 08, 2024
Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré's son. In his latest book, "Karla's Choice," he revisits his father's great spy protagonist, George Smiley.
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Nov 08, 2024
"Us Fools," by Nora Lange, is a tale of two sisters living through the diseased expanse of the country's recent history.
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Nov 08, 2024
In "Freedom Braids" and "The Magic Callaloo," young girls follow cornrowed maps to escape slavery.
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Nov 08, 2024
Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city.
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Nov 07, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 07, 2024
Cozy, whimsical novels — often featuring magical cats — that have long been popular in Japan and Korea are taking off globally. Fans say they offer comfort during a chaotic time.
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Nov 07, 2024
An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne's "When We Were Very Young."
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Nov 07, 2024
An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne's "When We Were Very Young."
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Nov 07, 2024
Perhaps the ultimate test is whether it merits a reread, even after all the objects have been found.
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Nov 07, 2024
A novel within a novel fueled her hit thriller, "The Plot." Keeping the stories straight was even harder for "The Sequel."
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Nov 04, 2024
Craig Garnett, the publisher of The Uvalde Leader-News, opens up about covering a tragedy that was — and is — too close to home.
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Nov 04, 2024
A new collection of personal letters tracks the neurologist's raucous self-discovery and venerable career.
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Nov 04, 2024
Immersive novels by Leigh Bardugo, Madeline Miller, Brian Jacques and more offer thrilling adventures in richly imagined realms.
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Nov 03, 2024
In "The Interpretation of Cats," Claude Béata helps explain the inscrutable behavior of our feline companions.
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Nov 03, 2024
Bookstores say customers love "Blind Date With a Book," which masks a book's real cover and lets readers discover what's inside.
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Nov 03, 2024
Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy. Bill Zehme's biography, "Carson the Magnificent," tries to break through.
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Nov 02, 2024
An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.
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Nov 02, 2024
An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.
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Nov 02, 2024
A new history by Roland Allen uncovers the wealth of ideas and invention hidden in the notebooks of Herman Melville, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain and other luminaries.
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Nov 02, 2024
John Adams reviews "Every Valley," Charles King's new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of the greatest pieces of music ever created.
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Nov 01, 2024
Sally Rooney's new novel explores the relationship between two brothers grieving the death of their father, and follows their complicated love lives with Rooney's usual panache.
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Nov 01, 2024
Share your memories of reading García Márquez's books here.
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Nov 01, 2024
Want to discuss spoilers related to our November book club selection, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel García Márquez? Post them here.
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Nov 01, 2024
Discuss our November book club selection, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel García Márquez, with the Book Review.
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Nov 01, 2024
Looking to discuss García Márquez's other books? Chat about them here.
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Nov 01, 2024
A record number of books were banned in districts across the country during the 2023-2024 school year, according to a free speech organization.
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Oct 31, 2024
Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.
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Oct 31, 2024
A maximalist comedy about the interior life, a riff on fatherhood and a return after four decades to a sci-fi classic are all worth close looks this month.
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Oct 31, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 31, 2024
Thousands of people, including prize winning writers, signed a letter pledging not to work with "complicit" organizations. Many others opposed the call in a separate letter.
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Oct 31, 2024
Pizza Hut's Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans.
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Oct 31, 2024
As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.
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Oct 31, 2024
Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.
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Oct 31, 2024
Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.
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Oct 31, 2024
In "Feast While You Can," two women who have long been nemeses rely on each other to face an ancient terror that has re-emerged.
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Oct 31, 2024
The actor and foodie admired the Nobel Prize winner's "Alisse at the Fire," with "Septology" up next. His own new book is "What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)."
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Oct 31, 2024
The actor and foodie admired the Nobel Prize winner's "Alisse at the Fire," with "Septology" up next. His own new book is "What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)."
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Oct 30, 2024
"I Heard You Paint Houses," his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
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Oct 30, 2024
His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon, but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war "unwinnable."
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Oct 30, 2024
Tom Clavin's "Bandit Heaven" takes us down the "Outlaw Trail" with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Oct 30, 2024
Novels by Haruki Murakami and Rebecca Yarros, memoirs by Angela Merkel and Cher, and more.
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Oct 30, 2024
With a forthcoming nonfiction book and an online army of Nerdfighters, the young-adult author aims to eliminate an entirely curable global scourge.
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Oct 29, 2024
Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.
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Oct 29, 2024
Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.
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Oct 29, 2024
"Why can't ballet be a roller coaster?" Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas's full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.
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Oct 29, 2024
The eponymous healer in "Sister Deborah" inspires a Black feminist uprising.
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Oct 29, 2024
Ephron's entire oeuvre — "When Harry Met Sally," "You've Got Mail," "Heartburn" and more — is examined in a new book.
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Oct 28, 2024
Our columnist reviews October's new horror books.
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Oct 28, 2024
A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.
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Oct 27, 2024
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In "The Schubert Treatment," the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
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Oct 27, 2024
Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.
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Oct 26, 2024
An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.
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Oct 26, 2024
In "McNeal," the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
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Oct 26, 2024
These books are perfect for the spooky season.
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Oct 26, 2024
These books are perfect for the spooky season.
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Oct 26, 2024
With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the "Watchmen" author wants an imaginary revolution.
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Oct 25, 2024
From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.
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Oct 25, 2024
He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.
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Oct 25, 2024
The series is the third production linked to the author to face turmoil after allegations made by five women surfaced this summer.
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Oct 25, 2024
Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.
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Oct 25, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 25, 2024
NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.
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Oct 25, 2024
NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.
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Oct 25, 2024
The English writer Sarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir.
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Oct 25, 2024
How the multi-hyphenate, biracial artist from Far Rockaway influenced 1980s graffiti culture and the downtown New York art scene.
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Oct 25, 2024
The young language-deprived protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte's novel "Deer Run Home" tells her own story, in verse.
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Oct 25, 2024
In "Night of Power," Robert Fisk's posthumous war stories focus on the victims and perpetrators in conflicts across the Middle East.
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Oct 25, 2024
Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.
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Oct 24, 2024
She helped make films like "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Contact." She also wrote widely about the industry, for The Times and other publications.
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Oct 24, 2024
"The Price of Power," by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a "sleazeball" for the presidency.
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Oct 24, 2024
She helped make films like "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Contact." She also wrote widely about the industry, for The Times and other publications.
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Oct 24, 2024
His literary career traced the arc of his country's modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.
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Oct 24, 2024
"The Price of Power," by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a "sleazeball" for the presidency.
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Oct 24, 2024
Romantasies, paranormals and fantasy romances, just in time for Halloween.
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Oct 24, 2024
Memoirists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the origins of the war on crime to what comes after "broken windows."
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Oct 24, 2024
Romantasies, paranormals and fantasy romances, just in time for Halloween.
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Oct 24, 2024
Ten years ago he published the graphic novel "Here," an instant classic depicting one room in one house over generations. Now Tom Hanks is starring in the movie.
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Oct 23, 2024
Once considered revolutionary, his notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor has become a central tenet of Catholic social teaching.
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Oct 23, 2024
In Yael van der Wouden's debut novel, "The Safekeep," the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands' failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Oct 23, 2024
"Playing Possum," a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world.
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