Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the Jane Austen issue and more.
Michiko Kakutani, Times’s Feared and Revered Book Critic, Is Stepping Down
Ms. Kakutani has reviewed books at The New York Times since 1983 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. The paper named Parul Sehgal one of its book critics.
Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure
Did Michiko Kakutani — who stepped down after 38 years as The Times’s chief book critic — influence your literary tastes? We’d like to hear about it.
Newsbook: 3 Books That Delve Into What Work Means to Us
The workplace is evolving, as is our relationship to it. These three novels explore how work interacts with our personal lives.
Editors' Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors and critics at The New York Times.
The Zoo Is A Terrifying Place In 'Fierce Kingdom'
Gin Phillips' new novel — which follows a young mother trying to keep her child safe during a mass shooting at a zoo — explores the way violence can be a safe abstraction for kids, or cruelly real.
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3 Supernatural Noir Tales That Reflect The Inhuman Condition
Some great noir fiction has been written about Los Angeles, but what happens when a different genre bleeds through? We've got three tales of murder, magic and robot detectives to cool your summer.
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Nonfiction: England’s Poet of Melancholy, and Why He Never Went Out of Print
Peter Parker’s “Housman Country” describes a poet who evoked a timeless countryside when England was becoming increasingly urban.
By the Book: Jane Green: By the Book
The author of “The Sunshine Sisters” is drawn to books by their covers: “There is still nothing like browsing in a bookstore with all the time in the world, allowing myself to be drawn to whatever catches my eye.”
Roving Eye: Remains of the Day
What can writers’ diaries tell us about our vexed relationship with time?
New Chester Himes Biography Reveals A Life As Wild As Any Detective Story
Lawrence P. Jackson's biography tracks the writer's course from prison to published novelist. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Himes' life story is well worth reading.
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Fiction: A Fictional Patricia Highsmith as Strange as the Real One
Jill Dawson’s novel “The Crime Writer” uses the life of Patricia Highsmith to explore the territory between reality and fantasy.
'Strange Practice:' The Doctor Is In
In Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw kicks off a new series about Dr. Greta Helsing, descendant of the famous Professor Abraham Van Helsing and general practitioner to the ghouls and ghasts of London.
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Nonfiction: Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing
Books by former Dallas police chief David O. Brown and the law professor Paul Butler, and a collection edited by Angela J. Davis, call for transformation of the system.
Fiction: In ‘So Much Blue,’ a Married Painter Spills Secrets
The artist at the center of Percival Everett’s new novel provides three narrative threads, including one of his affair in Paris.
‘Minecraft: The Island’ Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Gaming
Max Brooks’s new novel has an unusual premise: It can also be played within a video game.
'The World Broke In Two': Four Writers, One Transformational Year
Using excerpts from letters and diaries, historian and critic Bill Goldstein follows writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot through the tumultuous literary year of 1922.
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Fiction: On Vacation in Greece, and Refusing to Feel Ancient
Pushing 70, the three women at the center of Lynn Freed’s novel “The Last Laugh” discover that passion and conflict remain powerful forces.
Nonfiction: What Happens When Liberty Fails to Deliver
In “The Retreat of Western Liberalism,” Edward Luce argues that the tradition of liberty is under mortal threat.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Seeking Poetry with That Certain Slant of Light
An admirer of Emily Dickinson and Anne Carson asks for poetry recommendations. Susan Howe, Charles Wright, Monica Youn, Maggie Nelson and more ensue.
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