Book Review: ‘Roman Year,’ by André Aciman
Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.
Book Review: ‘Patriot,’ by Alexei Navalny
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
How Aleksei Navalny’s Prison Diaries Got Published
In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said.
Jeff VanderMeer Talks About His New ‘Southern Reach’ Novel
Jeff VanderMeer, known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.
The Holocaust’s Grandchildren Are Speaking Now
Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer, as Two New Books Remind Us
Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
2 Unexpected Books for Spooky Season
A haunted author; haunted dolls.
A Fan Discovers a New Story by Bram Stoker, the Author of ‘Dracula’
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
A Fan Discovers a New Story by the Author of ‘Dracula’
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
Book Review: ‘Savings and Trust,’ by Justene Hill Edwards
A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.
Book Review: ‘Sonny Boy,’ by Al Pacino
From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”
Book Review: ‘No One Gets to Fall Apart,’ by Sarah LaBrie
In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.
A Graphic Tribute to the Novelist J.G. Ballard
A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.
Book Review: ‘When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,’ by Alice Hoffman
“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”
She Shared Her Notes with John Steinbeck. It was Her Novel’s Undoing.
Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed ‘The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story.
Book Review: ‘The Absinthe Forger,’ by Evan Rail
Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.
7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New Psychological Thrillers That Will Creep You Out
Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
New Psychological Thrillers That Will Creep You Out
Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
Randy Newman Is at His Best When America Is at Its Worst
His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book.
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