Jonathan Keates’s “Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel’s Masterpiece” seeks to save the oratorio from centuries of misinterpretatin.
A middle-grade novel and a picture book, to be published in 2018, explore what being American really means.
An illustrated review of J. D. Salinger's classic from a 21st-century perspective.
“Growing Up With the Impressionists,” the childhood diary of Julie Manet, daughter of Berthe Morisot and Eugene Manet, reveals some unsavory views.
Three fall novels take readers across the globe on missions in which the espionage takes a back seat to the characters’ personal lives and liaisons.
In “A Bold and Dangerous Family,” Caroline Moorehead continues her Resistance Quartet with the story of Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli.
The journalist heroine of Anthony Quinn’s novel “Freya” is both headstrong and ambitious. Neither will be assets in post-World War II Britain.
In “Logical Family,” Armistead Maupin describes a conservative upbringing before he became a beloved author and L.G.B.T. activist.
Robert Dallek’s “Franklin D. Roosevelt” examines both the public and the private man.
Jeffrey A. Engel’s “When the World Seemed New” recounts the last spasm of Republican internationalism.
In “The Education of Eva Moskowitz,” the controversial founder of Success Academy Charter Schools sets out to defend her pedagogical approach and settle scores.
The characters in Boyle’s new collection, “The Relive Box,” battle modern problems badly.
The thriller writer Marc Cameron is the latest novelist invited to channel Clancy, who died in 2013.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent reviews by connecting new literature to old.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
These beautifully illustrated chapter books for brand new readers are very short — and very, very good.
The NASA astronaut and naval pilot Scott Kelly put his “Endurance” to the test, both on Earth and beyond.
The journalist and author of “People Who Eat Darkness” and, most recently, “Ghosts of the Tsunami” avoids “lad lit” even more assiduously than he avoids “chick lit.”
The BuzzFeed copy chief Emmy J. Favilla recounts her mission to set tone, grammar and style codes for a generation determined to break them.
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