As a new novella and a new edition of “The Tale of Despereaux” remind us, her stories demand a lot from young readers, but the rewards can be magical.
Cat Bohannon’s “Eve” is an opinionated clapback against centuries of male-centric evolutionary history.
A selection of recently published books.
In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated relationships.
“Raw Dog,” by the comedian Jamie Loftus, is an investigative memoir that’s part gonzo travelogue and part takedown of the factory farming system.
In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.
The Nobel Prize winner writes about characters trying to transcend their worldly lives.
Long a favorite to receive the award, Fosse has found acclaim for work that explores mortality and religion, and radiates serenity.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Norwegian writer was honored “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” The prize is awarded for a writer’s entire body of work.
His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.
The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.
While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.
This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.
“I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Premonition.” “It’s the best feeling.”
For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.
The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas.
In the author’s latest collection, “Our Strangers,” quotidian situations are stripped down to come alive.
A new exhibition in Paris explores how Tove Jansson imagined a kind world that reflected her values as a lesbian artist and ardent pacifist.
In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.
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