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Aug 20, 2025
Our critic says Regina Black's "August Lane" is the best book she's read this year.
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Aug 20, 2025
"Born in Flames," by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.
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Aug 20, 2025
Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.
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Aug 19, 2025
Clean home, clean mind. Or at least you can try, with the help of several tomes about doing more with less.
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Aug 19, 2025
The musical "Operation Mincemeat" tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
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Aug 19, 2025
Kaila Yu's "Fetishized" is a candid and intimate memoir of the exoticized Asian body.
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Aug 19, 2025
In "Baldwin: A Love Story," Nicholas Boggs goes far beyond other scholars in tracing Baldwin's relationships and their role in his work.
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Aug 18, 2025
Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea.
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Aug 18, 2025
Our columnist on three notable new novels.
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Aug 18, 2025
Mark Doten's new book examines a contemporary American culture that routinely defies satire.
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Aug 17, 2025
The food writer Olia Hercules proves to be a great cook and a powerful family historian in "Strong Roots."
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Aug 17, 2025
"Dominion," by Addie E. Citchens, recounts the many sins of a prominent household in a Mississippi town.
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Aug 16, 2025
In a new memoir, the British poet Raymond Antrobus describes the ways deafness has profoundly shaped his world.
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Aug 16, 2025
Elliot Ackerman, a Marine veteran and prolific author, switched gears with "Sheepdogs," a caper story featuring down-on-their-luck ex-military buddies.
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Aug 15, 2025
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.
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Aug 15, 2025
"Black Moses," by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier.
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Aug 15, 2025
A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real.
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Aug 14, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 14, 2025
In "Rope," Tim Queeney makes a case for the humble material as the tie that binds human history.
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Aug 14, 2025
Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he's collaborated with David Levithan on the novel "Songs for Other People's Weddings."
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Aug 14, 2025
He was 40 years old, "so I decided to rewrite it and make it for adults." He's now the title character of "The Magician of Tiger Castle."
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Aug 14, 2025
The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
A visit to the turbulent coastline of County Donegal reveals a place where the Welsh poet found creative enrichment in the summer of 1935.
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Aug 13, 2025
Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho', was written as satire. He's also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.
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Aug 13, 2025
Josephine Rowe's slim, atmospheric novel "Little World" connects disparate characters through the traveling corpse of a young girl.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
Our columnist on four notable new crime novels.
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Aug 13, 2025
A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history.
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Aug 12, 2025
Cleyvis Natera's novel "The Grand Paloma Resort" combines fast-paced suspense, class distinctions and colonial history in a breathless seven-day trip to the Dominican Republic.
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Aug 12, 2025
"The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," by Peter Orner, revives an unsolved mystery involving Chicagoland royalty.
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Aug 12, 2025
Jonathan Mahler's new book portrays the city's rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division.
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Aug 12, 2025
A new book by the veteran correspondent Jon Lee Anderson captures a long war's noble goals and crippling missteps.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
"Ruth," by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.
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Aug 11, 2025
In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they've found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world.
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Aug 11, 2025
If you're reeling after the final episode of Season 3 or looking for more sumptuous drama, these books will get you through to the next season.
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Aug 10, 2025
In her second essay collection, "Sloppy," the writer and social media personality Rax King embraces the mess of living imperfectly.
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Aug 10, 2025
In "Friends Until the End," James Grant explores the political passions and inspiring oratory of the British parliamentarians Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Aug 10, 2025
In C. Mallon's novel, a teenager's night out with friends dissolves into a collision of catastrophes.
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Aug 09, 2025
In Emily Adrian's "Seduction Theory," two married creative writing professors have parallel affairs, with very different outcomes.
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Aug 08, 2025
Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book "Nuclear War: A Scenario."
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Aug 08, 2025
"Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time" chronicles the champagne decadence and wicked wit of the New York society doyenne Mamie Fish.
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Aug 08, 2025
Tochi Eze's novel, "This Kind of Trouble," circles between 2000s Atlanta and 1900s Nigeria in a sweeping story of colonialism and its aftershocks.
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Aug 08, 2025
The novel "We Live Here Now" tracks the uncanny experiences of people connected to a mysterious installation artist.
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Aug 08, 2025
A new book by the journalist Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America's drug treatment system.
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Aug 08, 2025
Edward Lear, author of "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" and "A Book of Nonsense," felt such a kinship with parrots that he wished he could become one.
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Aug 07, 2025
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
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Aug 07, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Aug 07, 2025
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with a brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
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Aug 07, 2025
"It's very liberating to take off that psychological corset," the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star Ava Gardner onstage.
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Aug 07, 2025
The authors of two savvy new books offer hope that there's more to being terminally online than sore thumbs and brain rot.
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Aug 07, 2025
"The Feeling of Iron," by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge.
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Aug 07, 2025
With "Tonight in Jungleland," Peter Ames Carlin looks deep inside the album that made Springsteen a rock star.
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Aug 07, 2025
This "huge" fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he "pretty much hated" "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris." His own new novel is "People Like Us."
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Aug 06, 2025
Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by Janet Ahlberg, including classics like "Each Peach Pear Plum."
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Aug 06, 2025
The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees "the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies," he says in a new memoir.
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Aug 06, 2025
In the scrumptious "Tart," the anonymous London haute-cuisine veteran Slutty Cheff tells all. Deliciously.
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Aug 06, 2025
Shobha Rao's new novel, "Indian Country," is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America.
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Aug 06, 2025
In 2018, the cast of a web series joked about an imaginary (and very saucy) book. Now, it's a real best seller. Just embrace the tusks.
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Aug 06, 2025
An Yu portrays a community trying to maintain daily routines amid dire, irreversible circumstances.
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Aug 06, 2025
Esther Freud returns to the autofictional world of her breakout novel, "Hideous Kinky," published more than 30 years ago.
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Aug 05, 2025
Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by his wife, Janet Ahlberg, including classics like "Each Peach Pear Plum."
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Aug 05, 2025
In "People Like Us," Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence.
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Aug 05, 2025
A new, career-spanning essay collection shows how she has never lost touch with the mischievous creativity of her 7-year-old self.
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Aug 05, 2025
Jon Raymond's new book considers lofty questions as an affair and a climate disaster unfold.
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Aug 05, 2025
Elliot Ackerman keeps a light tone in his new novel, "Sheepdogs," though a more somber back story sometimes peeks through.
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Aug 05, 2025
In Xenobe Purvis's novel, "The Hounding," the atmosphere of paranoia and bloodthirsty groupthink in 18th-century England might feel uncomfortably familiar.
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Aug 04, 2025
"The Afghans," by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, tells the country's turbulent recent history through the lives of three people.
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Aug 04, 2025
These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more.
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Aug 03, 2025
Her hits included "The Exorcist" and "The Thorn Birds," as well as autobiographies of Betty Ford and Warren Buffett.
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Aug 03, 2025
In "Summer of Our Discontent," the journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams argues that Floyd's murder in 2020 upended American racial politics — with lasting, often adverse effects.
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Aug 03, 2025
Emily Hunt Kivel's novel, "Dwelling," is a magical realist take on America's housing crisis.
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Aug 03, 2025
Alexis Soloski's new thriller follows the evolution, and erosion, of a young performer ensnared in a cultlike theater troupe.
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Aug 02, 2025
Through the perspective of an unflappable social-media content moderator, Elaine Castillo's new novel exposes the often invisible dirty work of the digital era.
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Aug 02, 2025
In Lauren Grodstein's latest novel, "A Dog in Georgia," a New Yorker takes her identity crisis — along with her love for animals — abroad.
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Aug 02, 2025
Jon Lee and Scott Anderson avoid being in the same conflict zone. But with new books publishing this month, they made a rare joint appearance in New Jersey.
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Aug 01, 2025
Our critics Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai discuss some of their favorite books that take place on the road (and that aren't "On the Road").
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Aug 01, 2025
Ebs Burnough's movie covers the novel as well as its influence on generations of readers, including many artists.
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Aug 01, 2025
In a new book, the journalist Scott Anderson argues that America's failure to predict and understand the 1979 revolution has hamstrung foreign policy ever since.
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Aug 01, 2025
His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but "The Little Match Girl" still haunts me.
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Jul 31, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 31, 2025
Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai, book critics at The New York Times, recommend three road trip books.
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Jul 31, 2025
The former vice president has written a book about her run for president in 2024. It will come out next month.
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Jul 31, 2025
Nine artists on how American censorship changed their work and their lives.
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Jul 31, 2025
Our columnist on 4 noteworthy new novels.
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Jul 31, 2025
The fantasy author Ayana Gray recommends gripping novels where the monsters are heroes, villains and everything in between.
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Jul 31, 2025
The musician and actor has written a new foreword to "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones," the cult western novel made into a movie by Sam Peckinpah.
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Jul 30, 2025
Come along for the ride as our three critics back-seat drive their way through America. (Rest stops provided.)
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Jul 30, 2025
In "Stan and Gus," Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
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Jul 30, 2025
The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in "Unfettered."
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Jul 30, 2025
Lighthearted in tone, and free of violence and gore, these gentle, witty books are the perfect antidote for tough times. If you've never read any, here's where to start.
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Jul 30, 2025
Novels by R.F. Kuang and Louis Sachar, a spicy culinary memoir, a new Octavia E. Butler biography and more.
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Jul 30, 2025
Our columnist reviews "The Library at Hellebore," a new novel from the horror mainstay Cassandra Khaw, and two other notably gory releases.
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Jul 30, 2025
Lighthearted in tone, and free of violence and gore, these gentle, witty books are the perfect antidote for tough times.
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Jul 29, 2025
As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.
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Jul 29, 2025
The 13 titles nominated for the prestigious British literary award also include books by David Szalay, Maria Reva and Claire Adam.
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Jul 29, 2025
The music historian Peter Guralnick's new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture of an infamous industry figure.
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Jul 29, 2025
Ed Park brings his wit and wisdom to 16 genre-bending tales.
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Jul 29, 2025
What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?
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