Monday, February 3, 2025 - 5:00am
By Stephen Greenblatt
In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
In her fifth memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan writes about her 36-year marriage, her adult children and why she keeps telling her story.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 7:52pm
By Alex Traub
A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 12:03pm
By Adam Nossiter
A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 5:00am
By Melissa Kirsch
“Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s latest examination of male self-delusion, finds a Brooklyn journalist falling under the sway of a Svengali.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Harlan, Karen Hanley and Claire Hogan
What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best.
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 11:08am
By Trip Gabriel
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the president.
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 7:50am
Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer.
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 5:00am
By Joumana Khatib
Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival.