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New fiction by Chloe Aridjis, Ghassan Zeinnedine and Megan Kamalei Kakimoto ranges from the fabulist to the vaguely autofictional.
The novelist is competing with giants like William Faulkner, while mapping territory all her own.
Reading Eve Babitz, a “buttoned up” writer discovers she has more in common with the protagonist than she thinks.
Three new books by Malon Edwards, Melinda Taub and Karen Lord.
Three new books by Malon Edwards, Melinda Taub and Karen Lord.
The author reads her latest novel about literary prestige, empire and a case of false identity that captivated 19th-century England.
In Marie NDiaye’s new novel, “Vengeance Is Mine,” a woman is haunted by a decades-old trauma she feels, but cannot quite remember.
Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“Temple Folk,” Aaliyah Bilal’s collection of stories featuring Black American Muslims, was inspired by her family’s experiences with the Nation of Islam.
Lisa Tuttle’s “My Death” is short, uncanny, provocative, and pays tribute to a body of forgotten literature.
The 10-episode series, premiering Friday on Disney+ and Hulu, adapts the children’s novels of R.L. Stine with a modern twist.
The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.
“My favorite author was Madeleine L’Engle,” says the National Book Award-winning historian, whose new book is “Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.” “In middle school I would ride the city bus to the public library and check out L’Engle’s novels for teens.”
His culinary empire included several restaurants, an olive oil company, a winery and retail stores with a robust catalog business.
Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”
These spine-tingling thrillers involve talking animals, vampires and zombies, supernatural monsters and serial killers.
The action against a Booker Prize winner was the latest in a growing crackdown on free expression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His second book, “Blackouts,” a finalist for the National Book Award, shifts between fact and fiction to tell an intergenerational story.
A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.
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