Book Review: ‘Frighten the Horses,’ by Oliver Radclyffe
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
Interview: Robert Caro on ‘The Power Broker’
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
An Acerbic Young Writer Takes Aim at the Identity Era
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
Book Review: ‘Dear Dickhead,’ by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
Book Review: ‘Amazing Grapes,’ by Jules Feiffer
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
Book Review: ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People,’ by Mariana Enriquez
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
Book Review: ‘Paris in Ruins,’ by Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
‘The Power Broker’ Is Finally Getting a Digital Edition. What Took So Long?
Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.
Debt Was Supposed to Cure Poverty and Help Us Go to College. What Went Wrong?
Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.
Book Review: ‘Herscht 07769,’ by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.
Interview: Ketanji Brown Jackson on Her Memoir, ‘Lovely One’
The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”
Poetry Review: ‘Joy in Service on Rue Tagore,’ by Paul Muldoon
In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.
New Historical Fiction Books to Read
A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste.
Book Review: ‘Health and Safety,’ by Emily Witt
In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.
Book Review: ‘Office Politics,’ by Wilfrid Sheed
A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.
Wander Lonely, Never Die and Other Things a Cloud Might Do
Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.
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