In her second memoir, the author of “Maid” recounts the struggle of getting educated in America below the poverty line.
In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.
Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”
Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.
Our critic recommends “Hermit of Peking,” by Hugh Trevor-Roper, and “A Morbid Taste for Bones,” by Ellis Peters.
Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art.
Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, “A Nearby Country Called Love,” explores the complexities of relationships, sexuality and cultural norms in modern Iran.
Max Marshall’s “Among the Bros” investigates a multimillion-dollar crime network among fraternity brothers at the College of Charleston.
In “The Revolutionary Temper,” the historian Robert Darnton immerses readers in the world of the everyday Parisians who would help topple the monarchy of Louis XVI.
In her searching new novel, Jazmina Barrera threads together loss, needlework and the hypnotic coming-of-age tale of three Mexican teenagers.
In her 44 years at Alfred A. Knopf, seven of the books she edited won the Pulitzer Prize — and one set off a furious academic debate.
Libraries across Europe appear to be facing attacks from cybercriminals. At Britain’s national library, an “incident” is sending scholars back to an analog age.
One of the few women at the top of her field in book and magazine publishing, she was also a champion of her fellow professionals.
Sarah Lyall talks to Adrian Edwards, head of the Printed Heritage Collections at the British Library, about the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth’s willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.
A new book by the author Jim Cullen explores the uncanny parallels between the careers of these two musicians, and how they were products of their time and place.
El libro de la estrella del pop es una obra colectiva. Otros tres autores participaron.
A flurry of new books highlights broad disagreements over how to address the problem.
Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould.
The former poet laureate examines our country’s oldest wounds — and ongoing racism — through the lens of her own family’s experience.
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