Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections.
Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections.
In “Alice Sadie Celine,” Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s first novel for adults, a lauded feminist becomes entangled with her daughter’s best friend.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.
Having written about an inflection point for the British monarchy, the royals chronicler is at a crossroads in his own career.
Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, after nine years.
Three new books explore the how, why and what that keep our world moving.
“Caro’s works are masterpieces of research and artistry,” says the former vice president and managing editor at Knopf Doubleday, who looks forward to — what else? — more reading, after 60 years on the job.
In books and magazine articles, she uncovered the forgotten story of the actresses and screenwriters who helped create the film industry.
If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you and salute you! Is it time to add a few new titles to the mix?
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A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works.
A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works.
If your idea of festive joy is being haunted by past memories or driven insane by mysterious specters, have we got the tradition for you.
There are plenty of novels, memoirs, documentaries and livestreaming options sure to satiate fans of theater.
Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.
He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.
Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)
In his new memoir, “Uncross Your Legs,” Stan Herman chronicles a lifetime of adventures in apparel (and out).
The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention.
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