The great Irish crime novelist talks about her newest series.
A posthumous release from the famed photographer Ruth Orkin casts a female gaze on subjects both ordinary and iconic.
A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.
New books from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard and Scott Guild.
Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.
The writer and public intellectual reads “Doppelganger,” a searching exploration of uncanny doubles both personal and political.
The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
Crafting the arguments in “You Get What You Pay For,” her first essay collection, “felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy,” says the author of “Magical Negro.”
In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”
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