Amor Towles Sees Dead People
The novelist discusses his career and his recent essay about cadavers in crime fiction, and the actor Richard E. Grant talks about his memoir and his love of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Audiobook Review: ‘The Ghost Club,’ by Kate Winkler Dawson
Kate Winkler Dawson’s audiobook original reveals the origins of a society of occult-obsessed supernaturalists that included Dickens, Doyle, Yeats and more.
Review: “This Boy: The Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney,” by Ilene Cooper
Ilene Cooper’s “This Boy” shows how the grayness of John’s and Paul’s childhoods fed into the explosion that was just around the corner.
To Hear Michael Oher’s Side of ‘The Blind Side’ Story, Read His Memoirs
The former N.F.L. player and inspiration for “The Blind Side” just launched a legal battle with the family he once considered his own. Two memoirs tell Oher’s side of the story.
Paul Brodeur, Reporter Who Exposed the Hazards of Asbestos, Dies at 92
In his long career at The New Yorker, he specialized in writing about this and other threats to people’s health, including chlorofluorocarbons.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Patrick deWitt Would Like to Eat Sushi With Emily Dickinson
“I think she’d find it fascinating,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “The Librarianist.”
What Alex Jones, Woody Allen and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Share
Skyhorse Publishing has built a reputation for taking on authors that other houses avoid. And its founder has helped Kennedy mount a bid for president.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Best Books
Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own.
Shari Lapena Believes in the Feline Mystique
As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.
Poem: From ‘Letters to Walt Whitman’
Ronald Johnson’s work has long been a secret beauty, treasured by readers but difficult to find.
Authors and Booksellers Urge Justice Dept. to Investigate Amazon
The online retailer’s size and sway affects the free exchange of ideas, the groups argue. The Biden administration has stepped up enforcement of antitrust policies.
Three Sizzling New Romance Books
In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.
With ‘Necessary Trouble,’ Drew Gilpin Faust Looks Back
In “Necessary Trouble,” Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s former leader, wrestles with her conservative Southern upbringing, and the unfinished business of the Civil War.
Three Sizzling New Romance Novels
In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.
Children’s Picture Books About Seeing Our Reflections
Sometimes our reflections have nothing to do with us; sometimes they’re “the hide to our seek.”
Children’s Picture Books About Seeing Our Reflections
Sometimes our reflections have nothing to do with us; sometimes they’re “the hide to our seek.”
Newly Published, from Young Adult Novels to The Allman Brothers Band
A selection of recently published books.
The Hottest Jay-Z Merch: Limited-Edition Library Cards
Fans are rushing to collect all 13 of the Brooklyn Public Library’s limited-edition cards, which feature imagery from each of the rapper’s solo albums.
Three New Summer Thrillers
In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”
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