Friday, September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
By PATRICK ABATIELL
Three books, including Michael Bible’s “Empire of Light,” feature directionless male youths attempting to find a way forward.
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
By MELISSA WALKER
Jacqueline Woodson, Kate DiCamillo and Meg Medina tell empowering stories about vulnerable kids.
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
By KATHRYN HUGHES
Nell Stevens’s “The Victorian and the Romantic” tells of her obsession with Elizabeth Gaskell.
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
By ALEXANDER STILLE
Iris Origo’s war diary, “A Chill in the Air,” reports on how Italians viewed the Mussolini regime.
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 3:00pm
By LAWRENCE OSBORNE
What happened when the novelist Lawrence Osborne agreed to write a book in the voice of Raymond Chandler’s iconic gumshoe.
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 2:24pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 5:00am
By JAIME GREEN
All romance novels have happy endings. How they get there, though, is a lot more interesting when the protagonists must grapple with personal shortcomings.
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 5:00am
The actor and author of the new book “Whiskey in a Teacup” wishes she had five days in a cabin just to read, with “no emails, no text messages and no obligations or deadlines.”
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 5:00am
By DWIGHT GARNER, PARUL SEHGAL, JENNIFER SZALAI and JOHN WILLIAMS
With the 2018 prize postponed by scandal, The Times’s staff book critics discuss the award’s history and influence — and whom they would give it to this year if they could.