‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”
‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy
This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin.
Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?
A wave of recent and forthcoming TV series, books and movies meditate on how young people might fare during an apocalyptic event — with varying degrees of optimism.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: ‘The Heat Will Kill You First,’ by Jeff Goodell
In “The Heat Will Kill You First,” Jeff Goodell documents the lethal effects of rising temperatures and argues that we need to take hot weather a lot more seriously.
12 New Books Coming in July
Watch for new novels by Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Richard Russo, a climate journalist’s damning study of rising temperatures — and plenty more.
Poem: from ‘Inventory III’
Dionne Brand’s poem is a testament to live lived in the flickering light of spectacle and the grim shadow of war.
She Played Hopscotch With Anne Frank. Her Story Will Live On Too.
When Hannah Pick-Goslar died last year, Dina Kraft completed the book they’d started together. Now it’s a best seller.
Interview: Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One
“There has to be chemistry,” says the writer and prolific translator, whose second book will come out next year. “You don’t need prior knowledge of, say, Iceland or Icelandic in order to appreciate Victoria Cribb’s translation of Sjón.”
‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art
The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job.
Essay: How Different Translators Bring New Life to the ‘Iliad’
Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators.
3 YA fantasy novels for summer that bring out the monsters within
As we roll into the dog days of summer, these three YA novels move beyond being beastly — as their protagonists transform into the creatures that lie within.
(Image credit: Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR)
Book Review: ‘The 272,’ by Rachel L. Swarns
“The 272,” by Rachel L. Swarns, recounts the decision by the university’s early leaders to sell nearly 300 people enslaved on Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland in 1838.
Book Review: ‘A Terribly Serious Adventure,’ by Nikhil Krishnan
“A Terribly Serious Adventure,” by Nikhil Krishnan, brings to life the 20th-century Oxford thinkers whose methods of linguistic analysis were deeply influential and vigorously debated.
Translating Children’s Picture Books
With so few words, most of them kid-friendly, it should be a piece of cake. But it depends on who’s holding the whisk.
Essay: Constance Garnett’s love of Russian literature and radical politics
The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett.
Hop in: Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore offer unforgettable summer road trips
Ford brings his Frank Bascombe saga to an end in Be Mine, while Moore weaves together a fragmentary Civil War plot with an off-kilter vision of the afterlife in I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.
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New Books on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
In several recent books, experts on Russia and Ukraine weigh the importance of the Wagner Group and try to predict how Putin’s invasion will play out.
Book Review: ‘The Child and the River,’ by Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco’s lyrical 1945 novella, “The Child and the River,” tells the story of two boys and a boat.
Book Review: ‘The Rooster House,’ by Victoria Belim
In her new memoir, the Ukrainian-born journalist Victoria Belim returns to her homeland to find the missing pieces in the puzzle of her family’s history.
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