Jesse Ball’s Kafkaesque novel imagines a legal system that deploys a shockingly personal device.
Alexandra Alter spent time with the author at a new exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of his book “The Power Broker.”
The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.
Assouline has made its name publishing tomes that sell for $1,000 or more. But that’s just the beginning of this family-run company’s ambitions.
Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.
Two reports from advocacy groups show that book banning continues at higher rates than before the pandemic. Newly implemented state laws are impacting the numbers this year.
The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, plus celebrity memoirs by Al Pacino, Cher and Ina Garten.
In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.
The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.
In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans.
Adventures in Russian literature; a novel of domestic discontent.
The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.
A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.
More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.
His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism. He was also a dermatologist.
Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.”
Skeletons, ghosts and more: Mike Mignola has a show at a Chelsea gallery, and it might not be what fans expect.
What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?
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