The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said.
Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.
In Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend on Mars,” a young woman enters a reality-TV contest to leave the planet, and her marijuana-farming boyfriend, behind.
In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.
Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.
He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
This is the question at the heart of “To Name the Bigger Lie,” by Sarah Viren, which tries to make sense of two disturbing episodes from her life in the context of a culture where truth itself is increasingly in dispute.
The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.
A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories.
In Patrick Mackie’s “Mozart in Motion,” the socially observant composer embraces modernity.
In her debut novel, “You Can’t Stay Here Forever,” Katherine Lin follows a young widow and her best friend to the French Riviera.
Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.
“Say Anarcha” is J.C. Hallman’s meticulous biography of the enslaved woman who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a lauded doctor.
In new crime novels from Victoria Kielland, James Wolff, Katie Siegel and Michael McGarrity, the past is hard to shake.
A selection of recently published books.
These recent, new and upcoming books with L.G.B.T.Q. characters offer adventure stories, personal recollections, a riff on a famous novel and more.
A sequel to Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” new stories from Jamel Brinkley, a debut novel about a teenager who worked for Andy Warhol — and more.
Biographies of Anna May Wong and Alice Marble, a deep-sea exploration, the race to the North Pole: Here’s what to watch for this season.
Five new counting books all share one essential strategy: to start a conversation.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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