Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”
A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.
An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.
These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.
The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.
A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
In Weike Wang’s novel “Rental House,” a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.
In “Gabriel’s Moon,” William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.
In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.
The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.
The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.
Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.
The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo’s novel “Apartment Women” imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.
In that 1970 book and others he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,” examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.
Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food.
The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity.
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