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Oct 08, 2026
Carson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, taught at the university in the 1980s. Social media users mocked a congratulatory message from the school.
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Oct 08, 2026
On "The Book Review" podcast, Min Jin Lee, the author of "Pachinko" and "American Hagwon," explains how losing social safety nets after 1997 reshaped Korean culture into an intense educational race.
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Oct 08, 2026
Min Jin Lee, the author of "American Hagwon," joined "The Book Review" podcast to talk about how building bonds and community can be a strategy for survival.
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Oct 08, 2026
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 08, 2026
Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.
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Oct 08, 2026
The Canadian poet won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. If you've never read any of her work, here's where to start.
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Oct 08, 2026
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Oct 08, 2026
In the Minneapolis of Kawai Strong Washburn's climate dystopia, three characters form unlikely bonds to take on the nation's greediest oil behemoths.
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Oct 08, 2026
In Lydia Millet's dialogue-driven novel, a random act of violence leaves two New York women at loose ends (though not for long).
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Oct 08, 2026
The best-selling author Kat Dunn recommends some of her favorite modern retellings, of "Jane Eyre," "Frankenstein" and more.
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Oct 07, 2026
The first biography of the elusive novelist shows how little the lore ever told us about the man — or his art.
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Oct 07, 2026
In her new memoir, Meghan O'Gieblyn plumbs the philosophical implications of twin longings: for spiritual fulfillment and for drink.
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Oct 07, 2026
"Sleeping Beauties," by the musician David Byrne, explores artistic and scientific innovations that were overlooked before being embraced.
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Oct 07, 2026
"Other Worlds Than These" is the final volume in the Talisman trilogy, which King wrote with Peter Straub.
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Oct 07, 2026
A new adaptation dispenses with period glamour in favor of a lived-in feel and realism. The goal is to bring emotions to the fore.
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Oct 06, 2026
In six major books, John Iliffe centered his research not on kings, dictators and guerrilla chiefs but rather on ordinary African citizens. He has died at 87.
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Oct 06, 2026
Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.
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Oct 06, 2026
The novel, written over 50 years ago, has had several adaptations, not all of them good. A new series from Mike Flanagan has Stephen King's imprimatur.
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Oct 06, 2026
These spine-tingling stories cast light on creatures of the dark and reimagine superheroes with darker narratives, just in time for Halloween.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "Brink," the U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk gives a diaristic account of his work with the Biden and Trump administrations in the wake of the Hamas attack.
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Oct 06, 2026
Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth," Jeanna Smialek tells the story of a 19th-century author whose fiction brought economic theory down to earth.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "The AGI Chronicles," the tech journalist Kevin Roose looks for clues that artificial intelligence might already be smarter than humans.
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Oct 06, 2026
"London Falling" and "Dissection of a Murder" were among his recent favorite books. "War and Peace" and "A Clockwork Orange" went unfinished.
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Oct 05, 2026
The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature despite publishing only two novels.
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Oct 05, 2026
In a life of achievement and disgrace, ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal were themes that he knew intimately and that propelled his best-selling novels.
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Oct 05, 2026
A theatrical adaptation of "Perfection" by Vincenzo Latronico leans into political critique for an audience that looks a lot like the book's characters.
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Oct 05, 2026
A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.
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Oct 05, 2026
A new biography of the late novelist details his youthful escapades, messy relationships and intense commitment to his craft.
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Oct 05, 2026
In "Death of an Ordinary Man," the award-winning writer Sarah Perry pays tribute to her father-in-law.
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Oct 05, 2026
In "Partita," a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions.
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Oct 04, 2026
In "The Rush," Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who shaped the destiny of the United States.
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Oct 04, 2026
What seems like a story of a man hoping to reunite with a childhood flame is really a high-wire act about police brutality, racist conspiracies and much, much more.
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Oct 04, 2026
The most comprehensive biography of the hip-hop mogul to date is both an in-depth character study and a 30-year chronicle of crime and hubris.
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Oct 04, 2026
The artist Christopher Myers designed panels that were built in Mexico and photographed to become a new picture book.
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Oct 03, 2026
Set just after World War I, "The Eye of Goliath" details a man's descent into madness and a doctor's unorthodox treatment methods.
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Oct 03, 2026
Our columnist on James Sallis's "Backwater" and three other new novels.
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Oct 03, 2026
In Mikita Brottman's true-crime odyssey, "A Double Life," things get lurid.
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Oct 03, 2026
At 82, the famously roguish leading man has written a memoir, "One Helluva Ride," that's as candid and intimate as it is feisty.
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Oct 02, 2026
John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
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Oct 02, 2026
One of them takes the phrase "joined at the hip" to a whole new level.
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Oct 02, 2026
The writer John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
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Oct 02, 2026
The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.
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Oct 02, 2026
Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.
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Oct 01, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Oct 01, 2026
Our columnist on new novels from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and John Grisham.
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Oct 01, 2026
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Oct 01, 2026
Sarah Hepola's new memoir picks up where "Blackout" left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.
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Oct 01, 2026
It's one of many surprises in "Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines," the comedian's new memoir, and a testimonial to the power of reading.
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Oct 01, 2026
Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.
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Sep 30, 2026
In "Artificial Intimacy," Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even our democracy.
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Sep 30, 2026
A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.
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Sep 30, 2026
In Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's novel "Heavy Cream," a teenager tries to fill the vacuum left behind by her unstable, unreachable mother.
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Sep 30, 2026
"The Bed Trick" details an extraordinary sexual deception case involving a "bamboozling plot," "two implausible stories" and a world where no one behaves reasonably.
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Sep 29, 2026
The beloved author's follow-up to "Pachinko" features a cram school that dares to promote students' well-being over academic striving.
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Sep 29, 2026
Ben Sevier, who has led the publishing house's Grand Central division since 2017, will succeed chief executive David Shelley in January.
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Sep 29, 2026
Deesha Philyaw's debut novel is a rebellion disguised as a romp.
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Sep 29, 2026
In "This Cursed Beautiful Land," the journalist Evan Gershkovich explores what he learned while imprisoned in the country his parents fled.
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Sep 29, 2026
In "The Vanishing Family," Robert Kolker paints a portrait of nine siblings under threat from a vicious form of Alzheimer's disease.
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Sep 29, 2026
The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.
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Sep 29, 2026
"The Radiance," by Ayad Akhtar, blends campus satire, autofiction and philosophical exploration into an explosive and timely brew.
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Sep 28, 2026
"Ply," by Hernan Diaz, is set in a dystopian future where the state has been dismantled and one company controls the energy supply.
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Sep 28, 2026
Novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Imbolo Mbue and Stephen Graham Jones; biographies of Larry David and Frank Capra; spooky season horror; and more.
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Sep 28, 2026
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she's become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
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Sep 28, 2026
In "Holding Lightning," the critic Emily Lordi takes on the complicated legacy and misunderstood artistry of the late singer.
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Sep 27, 2026
The actor still hasn't come to grips with the loss of David Lynch. He talks about that, his hesitation about taking a role in "Sex and the City" and his new memoir.
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Sep 27, 2026
In Rebecca Perry's "May We Feed the King," a curator falls down a rabbit hole imagining life in a palace court.
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Sep 27, 2026
Our columnist on four excellent recent novels.
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Sep 27, 2026
"Man in the Mirror," by Anand Giridharadas, is a searching investigation into the 2023 death of Jordan Neely and the trial of the man who held him in a chokehold.
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Sep 27, 2026
An engaging new book shows the master of American Gothic to be a deeply disturbed man who embraced the darkness most of us flee.
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Sep 26, 2026
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Sep 26, 2026
In "Mestra," Madeline Miller follows the daughter of the king of Thessaly on her endless, self-destructive quest to satisfy her insatiable father.
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Sep 26, 2026
"Dodge City," by Patrick deWitt, follows a young man on a road trip to Canada to avoid conscription in Vietnam.
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Sep 26, 2026
Our columnist on three books worth your time.
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Sep 26, 2026
Michael Douglas and Sylvester Stallone are among the tough (and tough-ish) guys getting personal in memoirs this fall.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
Yoon's latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
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Sep 25, 2026
"It Was Either That Or Die," by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Sep 25, 2026
In October, the Book Review Book Club will read Cline's latest, about a man with dementia who has decided to end his life on his own terms.
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Sep 25, 2026
A new book by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz recounts how violent resistance by a group of armed Black men fueled the fight over slavery.
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Sep 25, 2026
Lois Lowry pioneered dystopian fiction for young readers. "Building 903" adds to her legacy.
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Sep 25, 2026
More than just instruction on how to use a weapon, the courses teach a way of life, the sociologist Harel Shapira argues in "Basic Pistol."
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Sep 25, 2026
The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he'd never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.
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Sep 24, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 24, 2026
In his new book, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that without feelings, true intelligence cannot exist.
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Sep 23, 2026
The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the "Invisible Man" author, who taught classes there.
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Sep 23, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.
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Sep 23, 2026
On the novel's 50th anniversary, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the story behind the story.
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Sep 23, 2026
If you've devoured all of the Queen of Crime's whodunits, here are more twisty mysteries that may satisfy your craving.
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Sep 23, 2026
A group of New York Times journalists test-drove routes that wind through shops specializing in comics, drama, fantasy and romance.
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Sep 22, 2026
If James wins for "The Disappearers" or Stuart for "John of John," it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.
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Sep 22, 2026
Doireann Ni Ghriofa's "Said the Dead" is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.
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Sep 22, 2026
In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.
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Sep 22, 2026
In "The Age of Cures," the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.
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Sep 22, 2026
"Swan Song," Charles Spencer's memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.
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Sep 22, 2026
Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana died, her brother has written a book about her life, her marriage to Prince Charles and the suffering she endured at the hands of the tabloid press.
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Sep 21, 2026
Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state's most beloved stories.
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Sep 21, 2026
His "The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook" made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Shadow Before the Flame," Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.
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Sep 21, 2026
In "Crossing the Red Line," Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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