Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 7:50am
A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection.
Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:02am
By Alexandra Alter
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.
Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Blair Braverman
In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.
Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Lori Soderlind
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Dina Gachman and Daniel Arnold
Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 5:00am
By Sarah Menkedick
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 3:28pm
By Penelope Green
His own dark history prompted him to write about and investigate the roots of violence, notably in his best-selling novel “The Alienist.”
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 1:44pm
By The New York Times Books Staff
The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:42pm
Stuart Turton’s bizarre whodunit also works as a science fiction allegory full of mystery that contemplates the end of the world and what it means to be human.
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Alexandra Jacobs
In “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending industry sexism to champion cookbooks — and Anne Frank.