In “Bully Market,” Jamie Fiore Higgins describes being seduced, and ultimately repelled, by nearly two high-flying decades at Goldman Sachs.
In “The Hero of This Book,” Elizabeth McCracken plays with the usual novelistic conventions.
In “The Rupture Tense,” Jenny Xie looks at silence surrounding the Cultural Revolution and explores its lasting impact on her own family.
Kiersten White, the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of “The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein,” “Hide” and more, recommends a few of her favorite horror novels.
In “Breathless,” David Quammen explores the predictable lead-up to the global Covid pandemic, and the frantic, belated attempts to stop it.
Ng discusses her best-selling 2017 novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Judy Blume discusses her adult novel “In the Unlikely Event,” from 2015.
Our guest critic, a dead ringer for the elf who went to Halloween, weighs in on a trio of ghoulish treats.
Deep in waters rarely seen by humans, these “gentle goliaths” are back from near-extinction.
Set on an imaginary island at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, “Nights of Plague,” by the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, is a chronicle of an epidemic, a murder mystery and a winking literary game.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded.
AMC has a lot riding on the series, which makes major changes to the original story. Will the millions of Rice fans sink their teeth into it?
Some friendships are so special they seem to exist before, during and after time.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“When McKinsey Comes to Town,” by the Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, argues that the legendary firm has accrued an inordinate amount of influence chasing profits at the expense of moral principle.
A deeply reported history of Covid-19; Maggie Haberman’s look at Donald J. Trump; stories by George Saunders, Alan Moore and Samanta Schweblin; and more.
In the studio, the best-selling author surrounded himself with people he loves. It shows in his audiobook.
Finding wonderful books that bring to mind old favorites is one of the genre’s greatest pleasures.
According to three debut novels: A house in the Hamptons, a mentor she can trust, to “be a slut.”
“I have kids and a dog,” says the Swedish novelist, whose new book is “The Winners,” “so my dreams of a reading experience are limited to just being left alone for 10 minutes just about anywhere.”
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