The artist and filmmaker, who is directing a new version of “The Color Purple,” publishes his first novel, “The Scent of Burnt Flowers.”
The stylish, reckless heroines of Carlene Bauer’s “Girls They Write Songs About” bond over their similarities, until one decides to settle down.
Did Abraham Lincoln, like John Wilkes Booth, ever find solace in spiritualism?
Our romance novel columnist, Olivia Waite, has some summer reading recommendations.
The author’s ninth work of fiction, “The Angel of Rome,” collects stories of lonely characters caught in their own versions of Sisyphean hell.
Ed Yong talks about “An Immense World,” and Terry Alford discusses “In the Houses of Their Dead.”
Debut novels of women seeking solace in sex, in sitcoms, in the innocence they are denied.
His wide-ranging work, including books, speeches and regular appearances on NPR, celebrated cowpokes, feed lots and life on the range.
In “Vera Kelly Lost and Found,” the final volume of Rosalie Knecht’s 1960s-era private detective trilogy, Vera searches for her missing girlfriend.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court legalized abortion. The decision has since divided the country. Now that the court has overturned Roe v. Wade, here are 10 books that outline the history and the terms of the debate.
The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier traveled to Michigan in 2016 to document the ongoing crisis that sent one family back to the fresh springs of Mississippi.
From Acapulco to Red Lobster, mushrooms to Middle Eastern Studies, new short fiction puts the tensions of modern life on full display.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
What happens when some of our favorite creatures are left to their own devices.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
“My iPhone must be dead, or secured in a lockbox of some sort,” says the journalist and author, whose latest book is the true-crime collection “Rogues.”
“My iPhone must be dead, or secured in a lockbox of some sort,” says the journalist and author, whose latest book is the true-crime collection “Rogues.”
“My iPhone must be dead, or secured in a lockbox of some sort,” says the journalist and author, whose latest book is the true-crime collection “Rogues.”
Her latest novel, “Thrust,” relies on time travel and characters from society’s margins to explore the idea that “it might be possible to change the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.”
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