The Haunted Past
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives.
Book Review: ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
“The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” which won the 2022 Booker Prize, is an account of wartime Sri Lanka by the ghost of a photojournalist.
Novellas by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hervé Guibert and Others
Fiction from Hiroko Oyamada, Eduardo Halfon, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Hervé Guibert.
Book Review: ‘Ted Kennedy,’ by John A. Farrell
John A. Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy” is a sympathetic take on a complex life.
Lucianne Goldberg, Who Helped Expose Clinton Affair, Dies at 87
It was Ms. Goldberg, a literary agent, who suggested that Linda Tripp tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. She later fed revelations to the news media.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Finding the New in the Old on the Intellectual Life Beat
Jennifer Schuessler covers the world of ideas for the Culture desk. But what does that mean, exactly?
15 New Books Coming in November
A previously unpublished novel by Katherine Dunn, Matthew Perry’s harrowing account of yearslong addiction, the winner of the Booker Prize — and more.
John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77
His 1971 novel became a movie, with John Houseman giving an award-winning performance as the imperious Professor Kingsfield, and later a television series.
New Horror Fiction
In “Motherthing,” by Ainslie Hogarth, a woman discovers her husband’s mother is even more bothersome dead than alive.
Kevin Wilson By the Book Interview
“I tend to love books where freakishness isn’t presented as something inhuman,” says the author, whose new novel is “Now Is Not the Time to Panic,” “but rather an affirmation of what it means to be a human being trying to survive in a very inhospitable world.”
Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be?
The memoir is expected to be a best seller, but after the queen’s death, some royal experts and industry executives say the project has become risky for Harry.
Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76
In “City of Quartz” and other books, he predicted trouble ahead. Events often proved him right.
Newly Published, From Flamingo Feathers to North Korea
A selection of books published this week.
The Essential Philip K. Dick
A nuclear-strength imagination powered his stupendous output. Here’s where to start.
Book Review: ‘Diaghilev’s Empire,’ by Rupert Christiansen
The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence.
Read Your Way Through Istanbul
Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.
Review: ‘The Singularities,’ by John Banville
“The Singularities” is an ambitiously referential work that confronts some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’
The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
Book Review: ‘The New Yorkers,’ by Sam Roberts
A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
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