Marshall Rose, Who Helped Revive Two New York Institutions, Dies at 88
A real estate developer, he was instrumental in revitalizing the New York Public Library and transforming Bryant Park from a dangerous dead zone into a glorious sanctuary.
7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
The Best Second-Chance Romance Books, According to Tia Williams
Books by Casey McQuiston, Alexis Daria and more offer emotional tales of love and forgiveness with plenty of heat.
Donald Shoup, 86, Dies; Scholar Made Parking an Entertaining Subject
In “The High Cost of Free Parking,” he made a dry topic interesting, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the ways cities are built.
Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96
An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.
Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
Books About NYC That Our Readers Love
Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York.
Inside the Making of ‘Wicked’
Meet the writer who helped turn a book into a cultural phenomenon.
Book Review: ‘Money, Lies, and God,’ by Katherine Stewart
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary Self,’ by Lynn Hunt
In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world.
Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief
Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.
Book Review: ‘Theory & Practice,’ by Michelle de Kretser
In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ideals and real life.
Book Review: ‘The Echoes,’ by Evie Wyld
In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left behind.
Book Review: ‘Dream State,’ by Eric Puchner
Set in a rapidly warming Montana valley, a new novel spans 50 years of a rocky friendship.
Book Review: ‘Looking at Women Looking at War,’ by Victoria Amelina
The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book.
Book Review: ‘How to Be Avant-Garde,’ by Morgan Falconer
A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field.
With ‘Paper Doll,’ Dylan Mulvaney Wrote the Book on Girlhood. Now What?
Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees the value in keeping some things to herself.
In ‘The Years,’ an Abortion Scene Is Causing Audience Members to Pass Out
“The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.
Book Review: ‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,’ by Rebecca Romney
In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.
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