Book Review: ‘Life Is Hard,’ by Kieran Setiya
In acknowledging struggle, Kieran Setiya’s “Life Is Hard” offers an alternative to the bromides.
The Crisis After the Midlife Crisis, Captured in Verse
In “Late Summer Ode,” Olena Kalytiak Davis describes the period after ambition has waned and the kids have moved out, leaving plenty of time to reflect on your mistakes.
Book Review: ‘American Midnight,’ by Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild’s new book, “American Midnight,” offers a vivid account of the country during the years 1917-21, when extremism reached levels rarely rivaled in our history.
A Classic Novel of the Nazis’ Rise That Holds Lessons for Today
Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1933 novel “The Oppermanns,” newly reissued, raises salient questions about the relationship between art and politics.
Book Review: ‘Down and Out in Paradise,’ by Charles Leerhsen
“Down and Out in Paradise,” by Charles Leerhsen, is an unvarnished account of a turbulent life.
Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World
The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
Book Review: ‘Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs’ by Jamie Fiore Higgins
In “Bully Market,” Jamie Fiore Higgins describes being seduced, and ultimately repelled, by nearly two high-flying decades at Goldman Sachs.
Book Review, “The Hero of This Book,” by Elizabeth McCracken
In “The Hero of This Book,” Elizabeth McCracken plays with the usual novelistic conventions.
Book Review: ‘The Rupture Tense,’ by Jenny Xie
In “The Rupture Tense,” Jenny Xie looks at silence surrounding the Cultural Revolution and explores its lasting impact on her own family.
7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Young Adult Readers
Kiersten White, the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of “The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein,” “Hide” and more, recommends a few of her favorite horror novels.
Book Review: “Breathless,” by David Quammen
In “Breathless,” David Quammen explores the predictable lead-up to the global Covid pandemic, and the frantic, belated attempts to stop it.
Celeste Ng on Race, Class and Suburbia
Ng discusses her best-selling 2017 novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Judy Blume discusses her adult novel “In the Unlikely Event,” from 2015.
Review: “Ghostlight” by Kenneth Oppel
Our guest critic, a dead ringer for the elf who went to Halloween, weighs in on a trio of ghoulish treats.
The Secret Lives of Sperm Whales
Deep in waters rarely seen by humans, these “gentle goliaths” are back from near-extinction.
Book Review: “Nights of Plague,” by Orhan Pamuk
Set on an imaginary island at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, “Nights of Plague,” by the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, is a chronicle of an epidemic, a murder mystery and a winking literary game.
Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded.
‘Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire’: Old Monsters, New Blood
AMC has a lot riding on the series, which makes major changes to the original story. Will the millions of Rice fans sink their teeth into it?
Poem: Moon for Aisha
Some friendships are so special they seem to exist before, during and after time.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: “When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
“When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by the Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, argues that the legendary firm has accrued an inordinate amount of influence chasing profits at the expense of moral principle.
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