In their new book, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden explain how a ragtag band of international tech nerds have defended the defenseless against cybercrime.
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit — and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
A new biography by Natalie Livingstone focuses on several generations of the banking family’s wives and daughters, documenting their passions for politics, science and music, all abetted by wealth and social connections.
In his elegiac memoir, “Come Back in September,” the novelist and critic Darryl Pinckney recalls his former writing teacher and lifelong friend, and the vibrant New York intellectual world they once inhabited.
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.
The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation.
In Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a white supremacist kidnaps a Black academic and traps her on a Southern plantation.
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
Short fiction by T.C. Boyle, Jane Campbell, Andrea Barrett and Peter Christopher.
“On Every Tide,” by the historian Sean Connolly, traces the patterns — and staggering numbers — of Irish migration from the 19th century to the 21st.
“The Ruin of All Witches,” by Malcolm Gaskill, is a riveting history of life in a 17th-century New England frontier town, where the stress of isolation, foul weather, disease and death led inexorably to accusations of witchcraft.
In Simon Stephenson’s new novel, “Sometimes People Die,” patients at a London hospital are dying at a rapid clip — especially ones who shouldn’t be.
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel, “Is Mother Dead,” features a middle-aged painter desperate to reconcile with the parent from whom she has long been estranged.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The morning show veteran did not mince words when she described her journey to become a first-time author.
In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries.
“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’”
In “The Passenger,” a pair of siblings contend with the world’s enigmas and their own demons.
In “Seduced by Story,” the literary critic Peter Brooks argues that a “mindless valorization of storytelling” has crept into every aspect of public discourse, from politics to cookie packages, with alarming results.
In “Blackwater Falls,” Ausma Zehanat Khan introduces a Muslim police detective bent on bringing justice to marginalized communities.
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