The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.
He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New novels from Emily Henry, Jo Piazza and Rachel Khong; a history of five ballerinas at the Dance Theater of Harlem; Salman Rushdie’s memoir and more.
Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for?
In her best-selling self-help book, Ramani Durvasula offers tips for surviving a person who only has eyes for mirrors.
That kids’ classic “completely changed my life,” says the former football star, now the University of Colorado’s “Coach Prime.” His new book is “Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field.”
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
In his unsparing novel “Wolf at the Table,” Adam Rapp observes a household in denial about the dark force growing up in its midst.
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.
Our columnist reviews this month’s haunting new releases.
In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.
As “Carrie” turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer’s work has had on their lives.
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
In “Age of Revolutions,” the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present.
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.
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