The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher
Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New Graphic Novels
Punk rock, Greek myth and a comics pioneer long lost to history bring vibrant color to this month’s releases.
The National Book Awards Opens Up to Writers Who Are Not U.S. Citizens
The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.
Dolly Alderton Loves Writing Peripheral Kooks
The best-selling British writer has an eye for bit players, including ones who nudge, nag, gripe and blurt inconvenient truths.
Book Review: ‘Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story,’ by Leslie Jamison
In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires.
Interview: Ed Zwick
“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”
Macron Says Booksellers Can Stay Put During Olympic Games
The French president’s decision brought relief to the sellers who have long operated near the Seine, and avoided a standoff.
History, by and of Women
Dabbling in the Anne de Courcy extended universe.
Book Review: ‘Neighbors and Other Stories,’ by Diane Oliver
A story collection from Diane Oliver, who died at 22, locates the strength in Black families surviving their separate but equal surroundings.
Book Review: ‘A Map of Future Ruins,’ by Lauren Markham
A devastating 2020 fire on the island of Lesbos is the springboard for a meditation on origin stories, borders and migration in Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins.”
Lucy Sante Discusses Her Memoir and Her Gender Transition
In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s.
Book Review: ‘Smoke and Ashes,’ by Amitav Ghosh
In “Smoke and Ashes,” Amitav Ghosh sources the colonial roots of a crisis.
New Romance Books to Read in February
If you’re craving comfort — or connection — pick up one of these books.
Book Review: ‘The Hammer,’ by Hamilton Nolan
“The Hammer” offers portraits of organizing efforts from around the country at a time when the future of union power has reached an inflection point.
Book Review: ‘What Have We Here?,’ by Billy Dee Williams
His charming memoir “What Have We Here?” traces the path from a Harlem childhood to “Star Wars,” while lamenting the roles that never came his way.
Book Review: ‘The Blueprint,’ by Rae Giana Rashad
Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.”
Book Review: ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write,’ by Tricia Romano
“The Freaks Came Out to Write” is an oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly.
Book Review: ‘Brought Forth on This Continent,’ by Harold Holzer; ‘The Last Ships From Hamburg,’ by Steven Ujifusa.
In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.
Book Review: ‘The Book of Love,’ by Kelly Link
In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.
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