On this week’s podcast, we talk to the novelist Grady Hendrix and TV showrunner Damon Lindelof about the work and influence of Stephen King.
A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.
She explored the struggles of young women in the novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with a children’s book about a magical cupboard.
For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising.
A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text.
This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.
“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.”
In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.”
Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices.
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
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