Lorrie Moore Is Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Amy Tintera Adds a Different Note to the True Crime Podcast Novel
In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
Book Review: ‘Chasing Beauty,’ by Natalie Dykstra
In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
Interview: Morgan Parker on ‘You Get What You Pay For: Essays’
Crafting the arguments in “You Get What You Pay For,” her first essay collection, “felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy,” says the author of “Magical Negro.”
Book Review: ‘On Giving Up,’ by Adam Phillips
In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.
New Crime and Mystery Books
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
Love the Sinner. Or Maybe Just Kill Him.
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
Paulin Hountondji, Revolutionary African Philosopher, Dies at 81
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
New Historical Fiction Books
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
New Historical Fiction Books
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
Martin Luther King Jr. Biographer Wins American History Prize
The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”
Book Review: ‘Fervor,’ by Toby Lloyd
Toby Lloyd centers religion and politics in his novel, “Fervor,” but with a light, mystical touch.
Book Review: ‘The Black Box,’ by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their reality despite constraints imposed on them from outside.
An Illustrated Guide to Spring’s New Books
Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.
In These Graphic Novels, Something Is Horribly Amiss
Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month.
Book Review: ‘No Judgment: Essays,’ by Lauren Oyler
Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.”
A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.
When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.
Book Review: ‘The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins’
The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.
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