Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous?
In “The Story Paradox,” Jonathan Gottschall explores how narrative shapes reality and our own actions.
New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Newly Published, From African Art to 3,000 Years of Athens History
A selection of books published this week.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Banned Books, Parisian Spaghetti Dinners and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Storybook Marriage of Alice and Martin Provensen
The Provensens lived inside a picture book as much as picture books lived inside them.
Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty
“I adore William James and Henry James, but did I also read E.L. James back in 2011? You bet.”
The Best Seller List Has a Century Club with Limited Membership
What books sell briskly for more than 100 weeks? There’s no formula, but pictures help.
New Books Explore the Many Ways Covid Has Altered Our Lives
From a diary of the pandemic’s first year to a philosophical meditation on what comes next, writers like Charles Finch and Bruno Latour take on the reality of Covid.
David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs
Sedaris talks about “A Carnival of Snackery,” and Paul Muldoon talks about working with McCartney on “The Lyrics.”
J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’
There can be a strange magic in human-made things that are interwoven with our pasts, with our homes, with our great loves.
New in Paperback: ‘The Three Mothers’ and ‘Head Wounds’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Four New Crime Novels
In “The Replacement Wife,” Darby Kane’s mile-a-minute novel, a young wife tries to get someone — anyone — to take her suspicions seriously.
Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Guide to Joan Didion’s Books
Ms. Didion was a prolific writer of stylish essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs. Here is an overview of some of her works, as reviewed in The Times.
A Guide to Joan Didion’s Books
Ms. Didion was a prolific writer of stylish essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs. Here is an overview of some of her works, as reviewed in The Times.
Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen
“Sometimes I read my iPad in the bathtub, which is probably not a great idea.”
Best-Selling Debut Novels Are the Bald Eagles of the Book World
Unless an author is a household name or has a celebrity endorsement, the hardcover fiction list can be elusive for first-timers.
Was Elizabeth Taylor the Best British Novelist of the Postwar Era?
A reissue of her novel “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont” solidifies the case, Geoff Dyer argues in his review.
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