In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.
Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.
“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter, and the right utensils.
In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.
Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.
Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.
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