Sadie Stein, an editor at the Book Review, discusses Carmela Ciuraru’s new group biography with the host Gilbert Cruz.
In the novel “Scorched Grace,” a tattooed, chain-smoking, swearing-prone nun turns out to be a crack detective.
“Have Mercy on Us” moves from Greece to Kenya to California; “Call and Response” is set in Botswana; “Welcome Me to the Kingdom” explores Bangkok’s dark corners.
“Unscripted,” an account by the Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams of the media titan Sumner Redstone’s final years, is a chronicle of corporate greed, manipulation, misogyny and sexual impropriety on a spectacular scale.
Contemporary fiction writers have only just begun to address the dating app revolution, but when they do the results are often new, bold stories about human connection and desire.
“The Windeby Puzzle” begins in 1952, when a small, remarkably well-preserved body is unearthed from a bog in northern Germany.
Daisy Alpert Florin’s debut novel, “My Last Innocent Year,” is a coming-of-age novel set on a college campus near the close of the last century.
After a three-month strike, the two parties reached a tentative deal that includes wage increases and a one-time bonus.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Her 1,300-page “Doubleday Cookbook” was a rival to “The Joy of Cooking,” and her rigorously tested recipes taught generations of home cooks.
A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature.
The artist Caleb Hahne Quintana envisions new releases by Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Eleanor Catton and more.
When the gentle bear fell into the public domain, a horror director pounced. Glimpses of the low-budget film have enthralled and enraged fans.
In Isabel Waidner’s novel “Sterling Karat Gold,” a violent attack on a nonbinary immigrant leads to a surreal, Kafkaesque tribunal.
The author of “How to Sell a Haunted House” learned the hard way that standing at the front of a mostly empty bookstore is no fun.
Three new books whisk readers to days of yore in Italy, Scandinavia and Palestine.
A poem that shakes us awake, enacting and preserving the fugitive possibilities of “healing from the law.”
“Our Share of Night,” by Mariana Enriquez, is a bewitching brew of mystery, myth, wealthy occultists and mediums who can summon “the Darkness.”
“It wasn’t a compliment,” says the writer, whose latest novel is “Someone Else’s Shoes.” “My weekly visits to her were usually spent with my nose buried between the pages.”
A selection of books published this week.
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