In Conversation: Spies Like Us: A Conversation With John le Carré and Ben Macintyre
Sarah Lyall interviews two masters of espionage on the page.
The Shortlist: How to Speak Perfect Emoji, and Other Language Lessons
Four new books explore the constantly evolving — and playful — side of language: slang, puns and emojis.
Children’s Books: Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams
Novels from Jason Reynolds and Diana Harmon Asher feature runners who must push themselves into unfamiliar ground.
Ivory Tower: The Chirps and Ripples in the Universe That Prove Einstein Was Right
Three books on a major recent development in astronomy confirming relativity theory.
Fiction: Misfit Creatures, Otherwise Known as Kids Today
Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” and Jomny Sun’s “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too” star anxious heroes navigating unfamiliar planets.
Editors' Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Essay: Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry
Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.
Essay: How I Rebuilt My Childhood Library, Book by Book
A novelist and new mother recreates her book collection for the next generation.
Essay: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past
Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Barbara Pym
However remote her themes may seem beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip.
Newsbook: Trump Is Afraid We’ll Forget These Men. Should We?
Three books delve into the minds of Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
'The Red-Haired Woman' Is A Minor Work From A Major Author
Orhan Pamuk is almost synonymous with Turkish literature; he's won the Nobel Prize for his work. But his latest, about a well-digger and his apprentice, doesn't reach the heights of his earlier books.
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By the Book: Louise Penny: By the Book
The author of mystery novels, most recently “Glass Houses,” recommends reading her fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood: “And I don’t just say that because the government compels me to.”
Nonfiction: How Chester B. Himes Became the Rage in Harlem, and Beyond
Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography, “Chester B. Himes,” traces the seminal crime novelist’s path from prison to international success.
Nonfiction: A Parent Confronts Conformity in the Classrooms of China
In “Little Soldiers,” Lenora Chu investigates both the roots of the Chinese education system and its effects on children, including her own.
Bookends: Is Free Speech an Absolute Right, or Does Context Matter?
The writers Adam Kirsch and Francine Prose discuss what free speech means in the context of Charlottesville and beyond.
Knausgaard Comes Up Short: In 'Autumn,' Less Isn't Always More
Karl Ove Knausgaard — famed for his epic memoir My Struggle -- goes for short and sweet in Autumn, a meditative seasonal reflection. But while there are lovely moments, the book strays into banality.
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Nonfiction: An Educator Makes the Case That Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up
In “The New Education,” Cathy N. Davidson argues that colleges must do more to adjust to social and economic realities.
Fiction: ‘Motherest’ Wrestles With the Contradictions of Parental Love
The narrator of Kristen Iskandrian’s novel, “Motherest,” hoped college would be an escape from an unhappy home. Now she must make a home for her baby.
The Long View: A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It
Rereading Maya Angelou, Richard Wright and other mid-20th-century writers is to see anew that Appomattox was as much a beginning as an end.
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