Book Review: ‘Rat City,’ by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden
In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.
A Family Tour of Crete and Athens
On a family tour of Greece, the writer followed the small footsteps of some of ancient mythology’s biggest fans.
Book Review: ‘Alexander at the End of the World,’ by Rachel Kousser
In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.
Book Review: ‘Smothermoss,’ by Alisa Alering
Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.
What Our Broken Politics Owe to the Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt
A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
How Do You Tell Immigrant Stories? Dinaw Mengestu Has an Answer.
The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.”
Book Review: ‘I Was a Teenage Slasher,’ by Stephen Graham Jones
In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.
Talking About the Century’s Best Books
A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.
Judy Belushi Pisano, Who Defended Her Husband’s Legacy, Dies at 73
She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.
50 Years Ago, ‘Jaws’ Hit Bookstores, Capturing the Angst of a Generation
The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.
9 Picture Books About Moving
Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It’s also about hellos.
Book Review: ‘My Glorious Defeats,’ by Barrett Brown
In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.
Who Is Elena Ferrante, Really?
The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.
Our Critic’s Take on the 100 List: Books That ‘Cast a Sustained Spell’
Dwight Garner writes that voters, who “seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,” looked for immersive reads.
6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Dan Collins, 80, Author Who Rejected View of Giuliani as a 9/11 Hero, Dies
A journalist and author, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.
Reagan Arthur Returns to Hachette
Arthur, the former publisher of Knopf, is joining Hachette Book Group to start and run a new imprint.
Book Review: ‘The Coin,’ by Yasmin Zaher
In Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin,” a rich, chic Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City grapples with displacement and American consumerism.
It Took 22 Years for Kevin Barry to Unlock His First U.S.-Set Novel
Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.”
Stephen King, Bonnie Garmus and More Writers on Favorite Books
Some of their favorites didn’t make our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list — but they make a case for them anyway.
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