Penguin Random House’s agreement to buy Simon & Schuster is set to fall through. Simon & Schuster’s parent company decided not to extend it after a judge blocked the purchase.
Her store, Art Catalogues, specialized in books for and about museum and gallery exhibitions and became a gathering place for artists and bibliophiles.
This composer, diarist and reluctant pioneer of gay liberation has died. A critic remembers visiting him in his twilight.
Lockdown has reminded David Sax that “The Future Is Analog.” At least for people a lot like him.
With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.
The first major biography of the F.B.I. director in nearly 30 years, the book by Beverly Gage revises our conception of a man often remembered as little more than a cartoon villain.
Her final completed novel, “Dawn,” highlights voices of protest in Turkey amid political turmoil.
Our critic recommends old and new books.
She was serious about issues related to sex for money. But she also spoke through an amusing persona she called Scarlot Harlot.
The journalist talks about her debut novel, and Neil Gaiman discusses “Norse Mythology.”
A Pulitzer Prize winner, he wrote many orchestral works but was most celebrated for his vocal pieces. He was also well known for writing candidly about his life.
A new book of the artist’s digital drawings charts the seasonal rhythms of East Yorkshire.
The competition is not without controversy, but every four years, it enthralls billions. Here are 10 books that explain its history, its appeal and its future.
Julie Buxbaum, Candace Fleming and Jasmine Warga offer kids opportunities to learn while being entertained.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Leung family teamed up to write “The Woks of Life,” a compendium of recipes for Chinese dishes.
Michael Wasson’s poem uses the self-portrait to investigate identity within the legacy of colonialism and erasure of the Indigenous body.
“The books I try not to pick up, and don’t want to read, are ones I wrote myself and published in the past,” says the Japanese writer, whose new book is “Novelist as a Vocation.” “Though it does make me want to do better with my next work.”
Tess Gunty received the fiction prize for her debut, “The Rabbit Hutch.” Art Spiegelman, the author of “Maus,” received a lifetime achievement award.
As dean of the faculty, he diplomatically persuaded his colleagues to tighten requirements for a degree and create a Black studies program.
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