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- The Work of FeelingIn Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping, biting, and hair-pulling that eventually gives way to a “realization that the fights did nothing other than allow them to hold each other.” The epiphany that they are […]
- ‘I Couldn’t Have Done It Without You’“Most memoirists Botox out their own imperfections, but celebrity ghostwriters tend to do the full facelift.”
- Against NostalgiaIn their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
- Pop & Pleasure & FreedomIn his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.
- Scarred in Hong KongRecent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
- A Dream of a Socialist CommonwealthMolly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.
- What Happened in VegasAn impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.
- LivingIt was hard for us, the way you diedevery day, slowly and then all at once,just as such things are said to happen.Spring came, so soon it almost seemedyou could’ve waited, but I know, I know,you couldn’t wait. My head was full of namesof flowers, and I kept picking stonesout of the earth as if […]
- Indiana’s Indiana JonesFBI agents who raided an Indiana farm in 2014 were astonished to find some 42,000 artifacts and bones looted by an amateur archaeologist.
- The Sage of WashingtonWalter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.
- The PeepersEaster morning Hungry to gainon quiet and nightand cold and rain we pixelatewe complicateour veins are antifreeze our throats are bubblegumour forestssocialist no liege, no CEOwe give awayour loamy, pitchy songs they say what they meanstay, staythe winter’s over we made them from decaythe understoryordered us some food thanks understorythanks salamandersthanks paramecia God set the […]
- Don’t Call It EntertainmentIn Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde's attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.
- Counting HeadsJean-Paul Marat’s assassination transformed the reviled mouthpiece of revolutionary bloodthirstiness into the revered martyr of the people’s cause.
- ‘Facing the Past’Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.
- Mommie DearestIn Liza Minnelli’s riveting memoir, the ghost of Judy Garland is felt on every page.
- Whither the Nerd-Bully?Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
- Iran’s New WinterThe US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
- The Second ‘Redemption’The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congress did not repeal it, having concluded, for example, that it was no longer needed. On the contrary, Congress has reauthorized the statute four […]
- After El-FasherIt is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city of El-Fasher in North Darfur fell to the Janjaweed—the nickname of the government-aligned Arab militias who razed Darfur twenty years ago, now widely used for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
- Mystery BrainLast year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and political cul-de-sac and open up new possibilities for art and publishing”—has led primarily to the production of texts by Internet intellectuals like Curtis Yarvin and the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist, […]
- His Moo Was RefinedOn a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and dashed off a story for his friend, the illustrator Robert Lawson. Spun out in forty minutes across six handwritten pages, the draft centered on a young […]
- My Classroom LifeThe English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a medievalist, someone to do Chaucer and Beowulf; though later I learned the position had long been a revolving door, ever since a negative tenure decision had ended up in the courts. […]
- Quoting the WorldThere may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
- Ever NewAs a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up at and wonder how it formed. (I had been reading too many fantasy novels at the time.) But as I grew older I learned more and more about what hadn’t been […]
- Maya Lin Reads ‘Ghosts in the House’In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa Monica, his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this episode of […]
- Why This War? A Conversation on IranNew York Review contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on what the war in Iran means for the future of US politics and America’s place in the world. This conversation originally aired on April 22, 2026.
- Vengeance Is TheirsAs if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in an impressive Red Bull Theater production. A content advisory provided by Red Bull lists the kind of material to which the play exposes us: “violence, sexual violence, murder, mutilation, racism, […]
- We GoofedYale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, is a temple. Although the Beinecke is cuboid it has the atmosphere of a pyramid, flanked in faintly translucent marble slabs that suck light into the building and radiate it outward at the same time. A new literary exhibition, “‘Beauties of My Style’: […]
- Manet and Morisot: Game OnAn important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
- This Bitter EarthThe world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
- Art for Our Age of ChaosThe 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife.
- PentimentiIt was Jan van Eyck who first sent a ripplethrough greater Bruges by banishing both streakand stipple in a truly historicmoment that saw him painting “fat on lean”and leaving no trace of a brush stroke on either a girl’s sleek loinor the streamlined carcass of a bowhead whale.The process of scouring lanolin from sheep’s woolmay […]
- Visions of DepravityOn Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
- London’s Brutal UndergroundIn Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
- The Masked AvengersThe Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.
- How Should a Pixel Be?Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.
- The Rise and Fall of David AdjayeThree high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.
- A Vital UnconsciousWifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.
- ‘The Music of What Happens’Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
- Drawn to the VoidJohn Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
- Charlatans & BoresThe profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
- Seeing by Hand“I feel my fingers have eyes,” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.
- Inflatable LifeOn Paul Chan at Greene Naftali
- Ladder to the Moonafter Georgia O’Keeffe, 1958 Soaked in the information of stillness, I found the moon too chaste—cut at the sourceof its language. Night, green with blue:ready for the ladder’s famebefore mountains turned into an idée fixe. Months into my sea psyche, I still wake up with this land in my head—cornered somewhere, missing a wall or some edge, a […]
- Waiting for Day ZeroThis past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. Citrus-and-mint-scented hookah smoke wafted from a lakeside gazebo decked with the prerevolutionary flag of Iran, and a hundred or so people mingled around […]
- Martin Filler on Writing, Frank Gehry, and the Dramatic World of ArchitectureIn this episode of Private Life, Martin Filler joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about architecture criticism, Frank Gehry, and the art that makes us weep. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Martin Filler is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His first […]
- ‘The Right Amount of Crazy’In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
- A Clearing of the GroundSmall liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging since 2020 alone and forecasts that a quarter of the nation’s private colleges and universities are at risk in the coming decade. […]
- War GamesAt the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion for international peace took the form of armonia, or “harmony” in Italian. It was a quality exhibited more convincingly in the ceremony’s fusion of disparate parts than in its relentless […]
- After the MysticsEarlier this spring, Lauren Kane journeyed up to the Cloisters—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s outpost on the northern tip of Manhattan, which houses European art inside a complex of buildings cobbled together from the ruins of several medieval cloisters brought over from France and Catalonia in the early twentieth century—to visit “Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, […]
- Finding Gertrud KaudersIn the last years of his life my father wrote a memoir. Born in 1916 in Munich to Bohemian parents—his father Jewish, his mother not—he had spent his boyhood at a Bavarian boarding school, until the Nazis made it impossible for him to stay on in Germany. At that point he fled to Czechoslovakia, then […]
- The Hardy MenIn 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a right-wing Internet provocateur, founded a boutique publisher called Passage Press. His goal, he told Ross Douthat in a New York Times interview last year, was to build a reactionary cultural apparatus that would […]
- She Knows a PlaceThere’s a recording I hold close, Joan Armatrading’s “Woncha Come on Home.” When the song was released in 1977, it was common for music producers to double-track vocal lines, recording two nearly identical takes and layering them on top of each other to produce a full, uniform sound. The vocals in “Woncha Come on Home,” […]
- Everything but the…A dispatch from the Art Editor
- From the Archive: ‘The Banality of Empathy’In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus Effect,” among other subjects, in an expansive essay on about narrative empathy. In this episode of Private Life, “The Banality of Empathy” is read by the writer Lovia Gyarkye. […]
- ‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as far west as San Antonio and as far east as Port Arthur. Flights were grounded, cars crashed, and all traffic halted in the Houston Ship Channel, […]
In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping, biting, and hair-pulling that eventually gives way to a “realization that the fights did nothing other than allow them to hold each other.” The epiphany that they are […]
“Most memoirists Botox out their own imperfections, but celebrity ghostwriters tend to do the full facelift.”
In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
In his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.
Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.
An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.
It was hard for us, the way you diedevery day, slowly and then all at once,just as such things are said to happen.Spring came, so soon it almost seemedyou could’ve waited, but I know, I know,you couldn’t wait. My head was full of namesof flowers, and I kept picking stonesout of the earth as if […]
FBI agents who raided an Indiana farm in 2014 were astonished to find some 42,000 artifacts and bones looted by an amateur archaeologist.
Walter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.
Easter morning Hungry to gainon quiet and nightand cold and rain we pixelatewe complicateour veins are antifreeze our throats are bubblegumour forestssocialist no liege, no CEOwe give awayour loamy, pitchy songs they say what they meanstay, staythe winter’s over we made them from decaythe understoryordered us some food thanks understorythanks salamandersthanks paramecia God set the […]
In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde's attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.
Jean-Paul Marat’s assassination transformed the reviled mouthpiece of revolutionary bloodthirstiness into the revered martyr of the people’s cause.
Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.
In Liza Minnelli’s riveting memoir, the ghost of Judy Garland is felt on every page.
Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congress did not repeal it, having concluded, for example, that it was no longer needed. On the contrary, Congress has reauthorized the statute four […]
It is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city of El-Fasher in North Darfur fell to the Janjaweed—the nickname of the government-aligned Arab militias who razed Darfur twenty years ago, now widely used for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and political cul-de-sac and open up new possibilities for art and publishing”—has led primarily to the production of texts by Internet intellectuals like Curtis Yarvin and the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist, […]
On a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and dashed off a story for his friend, the illustrator Robert Lawson. Spun out in forty minutes across six handwritten pages, the draft centered on a young […]
The English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a medievalist, someone to do Chaucer and Beowulf; though later I learned the position had long been a revolving door, ever since a negative tenure decision had ended up in the courts. […]
There may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up at and wonder how it formed. (I had been reading too many fantasy novels at the time.) But as I grew older I learned more and more about what hadn’t been […]
In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa Monica, his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this episode of […]
New York Review contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on what the war in Iran means for the future of US politics and America’s place in the world. This conversation originally aired on April 22, 2026.
As if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in an impressive Red Bull Theater production. A content advisory provided by Red Bull lists the kind of material to which the play exposes us: “violence, sexual violence, murder, mutilation, racism, […]
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, is a temple. Although the Beinecke is cuboid it has the atmosphere of a pyramid, flanked in faintly translucent marble slabs that suck light into the building and radiate it outward at the same time. A new literary exhibition, “‘Beauties of My Style’: […]
An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife.
It was Jan van Eyck who first sent a ripplethrough greater Bruges by banishing both streakand stipple in a truly historicmoment that saw him painting “fat on lean”and leaving no trace of a brush stroke on either a girl’s sleek loinor the streamlined carcass of a bowhead whale.The process of scouring lanolin from sheep’s woolmay […]
On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.
Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.
Three high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.
Wifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
John Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
“I feel my fingers have eyes,” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.
On Paul Chan at Greene Naftali
after Georgia O’Keeffe, 1958 Soaked in the information of stillness, I found the moon too chaste—cut at the sourceof its language. Night, green with blue:ready for the ladder’s famebefore mountains turned into an idée fixe. Months into my sea psyche, I still wake up with this land in my head—cornered somewhere, missing a wall or some edge, a […]
This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. Citrus-and-mint-scented hookah smoke wafted from a lakeside gazebo decked with the prerevolutionary flag of Iran, and a hundred or so people mingled around […]
In this episode of Private Life, Martin Filler joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about architecture criticism, Frank Gehry, and the art that makes us weep. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Martin Filler is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His first […]
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging since 2020 alone and forecasts that a quarter of the nation’s private colleges and universities are at risk in the coming decade. […]
At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion for international peace took the form of armonia, or “harmony” in Italian. It was a quality exhibited more convincingly in the ceremony’s fusion of disparate parts than in its relentless […]
Earlier this spring, Lauren Kane journeyed up to the Cloisters—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s outpost on the northern tip of Manhattan, which houses European art inside a complex of buildings cobbled together from the ruins of several medieval cloisters brought over from France and Catalonia in the early twentieth century—to visit “Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, […]
In the last years of his life my father wrote a memoir. Born in 1916 in Munich to Bohemian parents—his father Jewish, his mother not—he had spent his boyhood at a Bavarian boarding school, until the Nazis made it impossible for him to stay on in Germany. At that point he fled to Czechoslovakia, then […]
In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a right-wing Internet provocateur, founded a boutique publisher called Passage Press. His goal, he told Ross Douthat in a New York Times interview last year, was to build a reactionary cultural apparatus that would […]
There’s a recording I hold close, Joan Armatrading’s “Woncha Come on Home.” When the song was released in 1977, it was common for music producers to double-track vocal lines, recording two nearly identical takes and layering them on top of each other to produce a full, uniform sound. The vocals in “Woncha Come on Home,” […]
A dispatch from the Art Editor
In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus Effect,” among other subjects, in an expansive essay on about narrative empathy. In this episode of Private Life, “The Banality of Empathy” is read by the writer Lovia Gyarkye. […]
Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as far west as San Antonio and as far east as Port Arthur. Flights were grounded, cars crashed, and all traffic halted in the Houston Ship Channel, […]
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- Epic Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books for AdultsThe best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
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.”
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
The best-selling author and collector explains what draws him to add to his own bookshelves.
What to expect at the book fair in the Saatchi Gallery.
Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.
In Veronica Roth’s “Seek the Traitor’s Son,” a soldier in a pandemic-ravaged world is forced to become the hope of her people.
In “AI for Good,” Josh Tyrangiel travels to the classrooms, hospitals and research labs where people are using artificial intelligence that might benefit society.
“Nerve Damage,” by Annakeara Stinson, is a jittery psychological thriller about a woman whose creepy ex simply won’t leave her alone.
“Men Like Ours,” a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.
With the help of a forensic artist, Amitav Ghosh puts a face to the name of Varsha Gupta, the central figure of his new novel, “Ghost Eye.”
Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.
Three new books — a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir and a dual biography — provide divergent views on the business of buying and selling, and they are out just in time for New York Art Week.
In John Lanchester’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” a widow is unnerved when a hit TV series airs details from her marriage a little too closely.
The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.
Rita Collins had a dream for her retirement: bringing books and people together all over the country. Behind the wheel of a van she’s making it happen.
In “Selling Opportunity,” Mary Lisa Gavenas tells the not-always-rosy story of Mary Kay, the brand — and its founder.
As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.
Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.
Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some considered him one of England’s most important poets.
“Wild Swans,” a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.
The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep’s clothing.
From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.
As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.
In “One Leg on Earth,” a young college grad’s idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.
In “Screen People,” Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.
The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.
In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.
“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.
Fonda Lee’s “cyberpunk samurai in space” novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.
In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul neighborhood to better understand Turkey’s hard-right turn.
What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway? Luke Evans transforms in five-inch heels and an endless supply of glitter.
Our columnist on the month’s standout books.
Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.
The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
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