The Essential Philip K. Dick
A nuclear-strength imagination powered his stupendous output. Here’s where to start.
Book Review: ‘Diaghilev’s Empire,’ by Rupert Christiansen
The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence.
Read Your Way Through Istanbul
Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.
Review: ‘The Singularities,’ by John Banville
“The Singularities” is an ambitiously referential work that confronts some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’
The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
Book Review: ‘The New Yorkers,’ by Sam Roberts
A new book by the veteran New York Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans
Tales of horror and suspense are customary in the world of comics. Here is a selection of three new books and two ongoing series with sinister slants.
Book Review: ‘The Ransomware Hunting Team,’ by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
In their new book, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden explain how a ragtag band of international tech nerds have defended the defenseless against cybercrime.
Book Review: ‘The Song of the Cell,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit — and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir
In “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” the actor gets serious about sobriety, mortality, colostomy bags and pickleball.
Book Review: ‘The Women of Rothschild,’ by Natalie Livingstone
A new biography by Natalie Livingstone focuses on several generations of the banking family’s wives and daughters, documenting their passions for politics, science and music, all abetted by wealth and social connections.
Elizabeth Hardwick’s Master Class on Literature and Life
In his elegiac memoir, “Come Back in September,” the novelist and critic Darryl Pinckney recalls his former writing teacher and lifelong friend, and the vibrant New York intellectual world they once inhabited.
Monkeys, Mysteries and Murder
Our critic recommends old and new books
Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary,’ by Stacy Schiff
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.
Book Review: ‘The Pachinko Parlor,” by Elisa Shua Dusapin
The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation.
Book Review: ‘The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” by Ousmane K. Power-Greene
In Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a white supremacist kidnaps a Black academic and traps her on a Southern plantation.
‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment
Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
New Story Collections From T.C. Boyle, Andrea Barrett and Others
Short fiction by T.C. Boyle, Jane Campbell, Andrea Barrett and Peter Christopher.
Book Review: ‘On Every Tide,’ by Sean Connolly
“On Every Tide,” by the historian Sean Connolly, traces the patterns — and staggering numbers — of Irish migration from the 19th century to the 21st.
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