Our Book Critics on Their Year in Reading
Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.”
Interview: S.E. Hinton on ‘The Outsiders’ and Her Reading Life
“You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.
15 New Holiday and Christmas Romance Books to Celebrate the Season
New festive stories center the many ways people celebrate the season, and each other.
Read Your Way Around Chicago
Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.
Engrossing New Historical Fiction
Curl up with these transporting reads.
French Court Finds Author Charles Onana Guilty of Denying Rwandan Genocide
Charles Onana and his publisher were fined for passages in a book that were found to have violated a French law making it illegal to deny an officially recognized genocide.
Nikki Giovanni: A Life in Pictures
The poet left a long visual record of a career in the public sphere.
What Can We Learn From the C.E.O. Shooting Suspect’s Goodreads History?
Like many Americans of his background, his bookish aspirations were defined by what everybody else was reading, or thought they should be reading.
When Nikki Giovanni Was Young, Brilliant and Unafraid
The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her vision and herself.
‘Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents’ Surges in Popularity Online
A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.
Book Review: ‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife,’ by Hetta Howes
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.
Book Review: ‘The Rest Is Memory,’ by Lily Tuck
In “The Rest Is Memory,” Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.
Sarah Jessica Parker to be a Judge for the Booker Prize in 2025
The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is “the thrill of a life,” she said.
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
Book Review: ‘What in the World?!,’ by Leanne Morgan
Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.
Chiung Yao, Influential Taiwanese Romance Novelist, Dies at 86
One of the most successful writers in the Chinese-speaking world, she filled her plots with twists and turns, but love always transcended all.
Book Review: ‘A Century of Tomorrows,’ by Glenn Adamson
In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.
What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
The Best Poetry Books of 2024
Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
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