![]() | Martin Amis: An Appreciation |
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain?s most famous literary son. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?NB by J.C.,? by James Campbell |
?NB by J.C.? collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement. | |
![]() | In ?Fires in the Dark,? Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers |
In ?Fires in the Dark,? Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a ?love song to psychotherapy.? | |
![]() | The Detective Novel ?Whose Body?,? by Dorothy L. Sayers, Turns 100 |
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing ?Whose Body?,? the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Dom Casmurro,? by Machado de Assis |
?Dom Casmurro,? by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read ? and reread ? with precise detail and masterly obfuscation. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Late Americans,? by Brandon Taylor |
Brandon Taylor?s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting. | |
![]() | Martin Amis?s Best Books: A Guide |
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank. | |
![]() | The Best Romance Novels of 2024 (So Far) |
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024?s sexiest, swooniest reads. | |
![]() | What Book Should You Read Next? |
Finding a book you?ll love can be daunting. Let us help. | |
![]() | Andrew Gross, Best-Selling Writer of Thrillers, Is Dead at 72 |
A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Proof,' by Adam Kucharski |
In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves,? by Sophie Gilbert |
In ?Girl on Girl,? Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways. | |
![]() | A Novelist Finds Unsettling Echoes in a Nazi-Era Filmmaker?s Compromises |
Daniel Kehlmann wrote ?The Director? only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today. | |
![]() | 24 New Books to Read in May: Stephen King, Ocean Vuong, Alison Bechdel and more |
Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow?s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more. | |
![]() | New Romance Books That Will Upend Your World |
Our columnist on the month?s best new releases. | |
![]() | New Historical Fiction From Emma Donoghue, Chris Bohjalian and More |
Our critic on the month?s best releases. | |
![]() | Jane Gardam: An Appreciation |
The British author, best known for her ?Old Filth? trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style. | |
![]() | Jane Gardam Dead: ?Old Filth? Author Was 96 |
?The Queen of the Tambourine,? ?Old Filth? and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Ginseng Roots,? by Craig Thompson |
Craig Thompson?s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers ? both American-born and not ? who made up his community. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Medicine River? by Mary Annette Pember |
In ?Medicine River,? Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame ? and the trauma it wrought in her own family. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Fate of the Day,? by Rick Atkinson |
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner?s trilogy about the war animates an entire world ? from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Strangers in the Land,? by Michael Luo |
In ?Strangers in the Land,? Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them. | |
![]() | Peter Lovesey Dead: Detective Novelist Was 88 |
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?I Regret Almost Everything,? by Keith McNally |
Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes ? and failures ? in his new memoir, ?I Regret Almost Everything.? | |
![]() | Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West |
He deconstructed what he called ?the colonial library?: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood,? by Matthew Specktor |
In the unsentimental memoir ?The Golden Hour,? Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory. | |
![]() | In TikToks and a New Memoir, Sister Monica Clare Puts a Refreshing Spin on Religious Life |
Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth ? and fragility ? of her new community. | |
![]() | 2 Books for Cluttered Minds |
A spare elegy; a weird journey. | |
![]() | ?The Interview?: Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society |
The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since. | |
![]() | What Facing Cancer Taught Me About Fear |
The writer Suleika Jaouad explores what she found on the other side of her fears. | |
![]() | When Kristen Kish, ?Top Chef? Host, Hits the Mute Button |
The reality TV star and author of the new memoir ?Accidentally on Purpose? on airplane snacks, tongue-scraping and the problem with women?s pants pockets. | |
![]() | New Horror Books About the Haunting Power of Family |
Our columnist reviews this month?s releases. | |
![]() | At 13, Charlotte Brontė Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be |
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn?t perfect. | |
![]() | Book Club: Let?s Talk About Adam Ross?s ?Playworld? |
This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather. | |
![]() | Book Club: Read ?The Safekeep,? by Yael van der Wouden, With the Book Review |
In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss ?The Safekeep,? Yael van der Wouden?s novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance. | |
![]() | As Strega Nona Turns 50, Let?s Give Big Anthony a Fair Shake |
As Tomie dePaola?s classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy. | |
![]() | Leonard Zeskind, Researcher Who Foresaw Rise of White Nationalism, Dies at 75 |
With ?Blood and Politics,? he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat. | |
![]() | 7 New Books We Recommend This Week |
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. | |
![]() | How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump |
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump?s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest. | |
![]() | Overlooked Letter Rewrites History of Shakespeare?s Bad Marriage |
New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Rebel Romanov,? by Helen Rappaport |
In her sprightly new biography, ?The Rebel Romanov,? Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg. | |
![]() | Interview: Rick Atkinson Discusses ?The Fate of the Day? |
Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. ?The Fate of the Day,? the second volume in his American Revolution trilogy, is out this month. | |
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