Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the only choice.”
She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
In a new book, Clare Carlisle considers the powerful partnership between the Victorian novelist and the de facto husband who tended her career.
He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He taught at Brown University for four decades.
An editor recommends two escapist biographies.
Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him.
In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And that’s just the start of their troubles.
His book about the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty was a best seller. He later worked, briefly and not happily, for Richard M. Nixon.
Sarah Lyall discusses the thriller “Whalefall,” by Daniel Kraus, and Joumana Khatib rounds up the month’s other big books.
The filmmakers didn’t want to disappoint fans of Casey McQuiston’s novel about the romance between a U.S. president’s son and a British prince.
Encouragement, profit or exploitation?
In Halley Sutton’s “The Hurricane Blonde,” a young woman struggles with the decades-old, still unsolved murder of her sister.
In Halley Sutton’s “The Hurricane Blonde,” a young woman struggles with the decades-old, still unsolved murder of her sister.
In “The Octagon House,” published in 1848, Orson Squire Fowler wondered why anyone would build a four-sided home when they could have an eight-sided one.
These mysteries run the gamut, from quirky Gothic to small-town cozy to chilly Nordic noir.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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