Book Review: ‘Our Migrant Souls,’ by Héctor Tobar
“Our Migrant Souls,” the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on Latino American experience.
'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center
By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.
(Image credit: Astra House)
'Red Memory' aims to profile people shaped by China's Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.
(Image credit: W. W. Norton & Company)
Book Review: ‘King: A Life,’ by Jonathan Eig
“King: A Life,” by Jonathan Eig, is the first comprehensive account of the civil rights icon in decades.
In BuzzFeed fashion, 5 takeaways from Ben Smith's 'Traffic'
In his new book, the former editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News lands on his promise to chronicle the rise of digital media through the story of a snowballing, head-to-head competition.
(Image credit: Penguin Press)
Back pain shouldn't stop you from cooking at home. Here's how to adapt
A new cookbook offers kitchen techniques that reduce physical exertion. It aims to make home cooking accessible again for those with chronic back pain.
(Image credit: Kobus Louw/Getty Images)
The Best Romance Books to Read in 2023
Looking for an escapist love story? Our columnist is tracking the year’s sexiest, most swoon-worthy reads.
6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Books
Tracy Deonn, the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award-winning author of “Legendborn” and “Bloodmarked,” recommends a few of her favorite young adult fantasy titles.
6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels
Tracy Deonn, the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award-winning author of “Legendborn” and “Bloodmarked,” recommends a few of her favorite young adult fantasy titles.
Book Bans and What to Read in May
Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth Harris talk publishing news, and Joumana Khatib previews the month’s big books.
3 works in translation tell science-driven tales
AI may be the topic du jour, but for now only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature in a new language, as translators have done with these three works.
(Image credit: Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR)
New Historical Fiction
Welcome to three novels set in locales where life is exceedingly difficult.
Friendship in Three New Books for Early Readers
Otis and Peanut, Panda and Squirrel, and Bear and Bird bravely follow in the footsteps of Frog and Toad and George and Martha.
Friendship in Three New Books for Early Readers
Otis and Peanut, Panda and Squirrel, and Bear and Bird bravely follow in the footsteps of Frog and Toad and George and Martha.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Gone to the Wolves' masterfully portrays the heavy metal scene of the '80s and '90s
John Wray's latest novel is a powerful and juicy story about a particular time, subculture, and the ways people can find themselves in — or can deliberately disappear into — fandom.
(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Maggie Smith’s Muse Is Central Ohio
The author of “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus.
Maggie Smith’s Muse Is Central Ohio
The author of “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus.
Meet Nancy Hale, the Jazz Age Rebel Who Chronicled Women’s Lives
A decorated writer in the 1940s, Nancy Hale analyzed the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and the realities of female experience. Why has she fallen into obscurity?
By the Book: Sarah Sze Wishes She Could Hear Gertrude Stein Pick a Fight
The artist, whose exhibition “Timelapse” is at the Guggenheim, would invite Stein to dinner with Cervantes and Murasaki Shikibu: “Stein might instigate a … debate on the origin of the modern novel.”
Pages
Search this Site
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
