Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre.
Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his raunchy, stylish, intimate new memoir, “The Loves of My Life.”
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.
The heroine of Roisín O’Donnell’s novel “Nesting” is a young mother desperate to escape her husband’s physical and emotional control.
How the novel became an Oscar-nominated film.
Newly published, long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos capture life in the city in the 1960s and 70s.
A forgetful bear, a lovesick boy and, yes, George Washington share their views from the bridge.
A forgetful bear, a lovesick boy and, yes, George Washington share their views from the bridge.
The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
Whether you’re in the mood for another Jane Austen adaptation, a British rom-com or a love story with a fabulous older heroine, we’ve got you covered.
The creator of Bridget Jones, who grew up on Jane Austen and Jackie Collins, has no patience for “snobbery about escapist fiction.”
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.
A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer’s haunting universe.
A new book by the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin plumbs the dubious history of the presidential pardon.
Janet Malcolm is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more complicated.
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