For a Raw Portrait of War, Look to Palestinian Poets
In their new collections, Mosab Abu Toha and Najwan Darwish share unvarnished views of destruction, displacement and loss.
Two New Picture Books Set the Table for an Object Lesson
Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.
Spencer Lawton Jr., D.A. in ‘Midnight in the Garden’ Case, Dies at 81
He devoted much of his 28 years in office in Savannah to victims’ rights, but he was best known for his role in a 1981 murder at the center of a best seller and its movie version.
6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sex and Horror and the End of the World, in November’s Graphic Novels
This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.
Book Review: ‘Family Romance,’ by Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.
Interview: Glory Edim on ‘Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me’
Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club.
Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”
What Do I Get the Person Who Needs Nothing?
For the holidays, T asked readers to write in about their hardest-to-shop-for loved ones. Here, our editors respond with their suggestions.
Read the Book Review’s 1982 Nobel Interview with Gabriel García Márquez
In ‘Interior Chinatown,’ the Sets Have Main Character Energy
The Hulu series unfolds in a Chinatown that “is both physical and psychological,” said Charles Yu, the creator. Here’s a look at how four key settings bring the story to life.
Book Review: ‘V13,’ by Emmanuel Carrère
For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing grueling testimony about the 2015 massacre at the concert hall and other venues in the city.
What Were Your Favorite Movies, TV, Music and Books in 2024?
We want to know what stuck with you this year. What were the best things you watched, read and heard?
The Perfect Novel for the Baku Climate Summit: Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility
The U.N. climate conference, held in a petrostate, is a surreal moment. This darkly funny novel about Baku, oil companies and climate change in the first Trump term helps make sense of it all.
One Book That Made Gabriel García Márquez a Writer
Book Review: ‘Time of the Child,’ by Niall Williams, and ‘Brightly Shining,’ by Ingvild Rishoi
Two families navigate a pivotal holiday season that transforms their lives.
Book Review: ‘Cher: The Memoir,’ by Cher
The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.
Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87
A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.
Arthur Frommer, 95, Dies; His Guidebooks Opened Travel to the Masses
After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and other services.
Book Review: ‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls,’ by Haruki Murakami
“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.
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