Travel Meditations From a Stuck-at-Home Vagabond
Rolf Potts, the author who inspired wanderlust in many, has mastered the art of ‘engaged travel,’ which makes you see home with fresh eyes.
Book Review: ‘Scatterlings,’ by Resoketswe Manenzhe
Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel, “Scatterlings,” witnesses the dissolution of a young family in the wake of South Africa’s Immorality Act, which outlawed interracial relationships.
‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs
In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Best Art Books of 2022
Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine.
Louise Penny Wrote a No. 1 Best Seller During Her Year Off
She meant to take a break but the Canadian author ended up doing what she always does: powering through a new novel.
Jane Smiley By the Book Interview
“It’s always tempting for readers to read novels about people like themselves,” says the author, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business.” “One of the benefits of literature classes in school is that kids get an early exposure to people who are not like them.”
Jane Smiley By the Book Interview
“It’s always tempting for readers to read novels about people like themselves,” says the author, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business.” “One of the benefits of literature classes in school is that kids get an early exposure to people who are not like them.”
Review: ‘The Tudors in Love,’ by Sarah Gristwood
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance.
From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize
For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.
Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive
The elusive author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Mason & Dixon” has sold his papers to the Huntington Library. It includes drafts, notes and letters — but sorry, no photographs of him.
Michelle Obama’s Fashion Declaration of Independence
The former first lady dressed with a new sense of freedom on her book tour.
Newly Published, From Feminist Resistance to Ancient Empire
A selection of recently published books.
Book Review: ‘The Wind at My Back,’ by Misty Copeland; ‘Weightless,’ by Evette Dionne; ‘A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing,’ by Mary-Alice Daniel
Personal reflections by three women about art and adversity, fat-phobia and diaspora.
Book Review: ‘The Tatami Galaxy,’ by Tomihiko Morimi
In Tomihiko Morimi’s novel, a college junior in Kyoto has four chances at happiness, with frustratingly similar results.
Book Review: ‘Gunk Baby,’ by Jamie Marina Lau
Jamie Marina Lau’s “Gunk Baby” sets a workers’ revolution in a cheesy shopping mall.
Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books
Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for authors.
A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans
Some groups are new, some are longstanding. Some are local, others national. Over the past two years, they have become vastly more organized, well funded, effective — and criticized.
Book Review: ‘Freedom’s Dominion,’ by Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an Alabama county and the politics of white supremacy.
Book Review: ‘Eccentric Lives: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries’
This new collection from Britain’s Daily Telegraph is full of oddballs, mavericks and cranks.
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