Book Review: ‘Extremely Online,’ by Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz’s “Extremely Online” charts the internet phenomena that have shaped the 21st century, focusing not on the platforms but on the users.
Two Books on Witches
In Allyson Stone’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.
Book Review: ‘Sparks,’ by Ian Johnson
In “Sparks,” the journalist Ian Johnson chronicles the methods and motivations of the activists trying to preserve a record of the atrocities of the past.
Legal Arrangement in ‘Blind Side’ Case Is Terminated
A judge ended a nearly 20-year-old conservatorship that had given a couple broad authority over the affairs of the former N.F.L. player Michael Oher.
An Audiobooks Bonanza
Book Review editors discuss their love of listening to books out loud.
Book Review: ‘Coming and Going,’ by Jim Goldberg
“Coming and Going” is the photographer Jim Goldberg’s visual memoir of three generations in his family, from 1980 to today.
Newly Published, From Children’s Books to Surveillance Software
A selection of recently published books.
Book Review: “There Was a Party for Langston: King o’ Letters,” by Jason Reynolds, and “Harlem at Four,” by Michael Datcher
Debut picture books by Jason Reynolds and Michael Datcher celebrate the cultural history of a neighborhood.
Book Review: ‘How to Say Babylon,’ by Safiya Sinclair
In “How to Say Babylon,” Safiya Sinclair recalls her ascetic Jamaican upbringing and the literature that opened up her world.
Book Review: ‘The Maniac,’ by Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut’s novel “The Maniac” examines the dawn of the nuclear age and the brilliant, sometimes troubled minds behind it.
Book Reviews: ‘Flee North,’ by Scott Shane; ‘Golda Meir,’ by Deborah Lipstadt; ‘The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel,’ by Douglas Brunt; and ‘The Sister,’ by Sung-Yoon Lee.
New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power.
Dawn Powell’s Writing Has Been Rediscovered. What About Her Grave?
The satirist, who died in 1965, was buried in a potter’s field in the Bronx. Now some of her admirers are thinking about how to commemorate her.
Audiobook Review: ‘Gone Tonight,’ by Sarah Pekkanen
In this thriller, a mother’s deceptions set off a game of cat and mouse with her adult daughter.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Has the Internet Killed the Local Comedy Scene?
A new book argues that the isolation of a pre-social media era helped fuel a fertile Chicago ecosystem for offbeat stand-up comedians.
What to Know About the 2023 Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes will be announced beginning Monday.
What’s the Story Behind Mu Shu Pork and Bird’s Nest Soup?
In “Chinese Menu,” Grace Lin takes readers and eaters on a food tour that dates back to 7000 B.C.
Poem: What if We Call This Tenderness
A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.
Academic Romance Books to Read This September
What better time than fall to look at academic romances?
18 New Books to Read in October: Jesmyn Ward, John Grisham, Michael Lewis and more
Buzzy new novels from Jesmyn Ward, Tananarive Due and Daniel Clowes; biographies of Madonna and Sam Bankman-Fried; John Grisham’s sequel to “The Firm”; and much more.
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