Book Review: ‘Paradise, Bronx,’ by Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.
Book Review: ‘The Volcano Daughters,’ by Gina María Balibrera
A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.
Book Review: ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky,’ by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.
Book Review: ‘Prisoner of Lies,’ by Barry Werth.
In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.
Can We Talk? The Characters in These 2 Books Can, and How
Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
Profile: Virginia Nicholson
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
A Wild Night With Edna O’Brien
On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club.
Book Review: ‘The Instrumentalist,’ by Harriet Constable
In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.
Book Review: ‘Black Butterflies,’ by Priscilla Morris
Priscilla Morris’s novel “Black Butterflies” makes the case for art in times of war.
Liz Moore on ‘The God of the Woods’
The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.
Book Review: ‘Drawn Testimony,’ by Jane Rosenberg
In “Drawn Testimony,” the portraitist Jane Rosenberg takes you inside high-profile federal trials across four decades.
A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt
In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
Dave Eggers Reviews Two Picture Books About Giants
Two dreamlike picture books explore the ennui particular to the colossus.
6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Wendell Berry veers from gratitude to yearning in 'Another Day'
In his sequel to 'This Day,' Berry’s themes, including bringing alive the joys and sorrows of hard-working rural Kentuckians. are revisited in ways both familiar and fresh.
Interview: Yoko Ogawa on Her Reading Life and the Novel ‘Mina’s Matchbox’
“My gaze meets the spine of a certain book,” explains the author of “The Memory Police.” “We exchange glances. … This book has chosen me.” Her latest novel to be translated from Japanese is “Mina’s Matchbox.”
How Tom Wolfe Turned Sociology Into Art
How the author of “The Right Stuff,” “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” and other classics turned sociology into art.
Betty A. Prashker, Book Publishing Pioneer, Is Dead at 99
A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for other women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.
An Indigenous Author Offers Ancestral Answers to Today’s Environmental Crises
Ailton Krenak was a child when his family was forced to leave their land in Brazil. Now, as a writer, he advocates for a path forward that looks to nature and inherited wisdom.
Book Review: ‘Hitler’s People,’ by Richard J. Evans
In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.
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