The Best Historical Fiction of 2021
The year’s most transporting novels have taken us to the past and around the globe.
What Was on the Best-Seller List 50 Years Ago?
Arthur Hailey and Joseph Last were in the top slots. Their subjects: cars and the Roosevelts.
Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels
“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it. I just typically can finish writing a single poem faster than I can an entire narrative book!”
To Understand Our Future on Earth, Look to the Laws That Govern Nature
In “A Natural History of the Future,” Rob Dunn turns to ecology as a way of figuring out just how the planet will be altered by climate change.
Does It Make Sense to Categorize People by Generation?
In “The Generation Myth,” Bobby Duffy deconstructs the stereotypes that have built up around millennials, boomers and other cohorts.
From Venus to Medusa, How Art Codifies the Objectification of Women
In “Women in the Picture,” the art historian Catherine McCormack traces classical female figures and their effects on Western culture.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021
From epic voyages to haunting folk tales, here are the highlights of an otherworldly year.
Newly Published, From Roman Art to the Sri Lankan Civil War
A selection of books published this week.
A Family Shatters Along With Yugoslavia
“Where You Come From,” by Sasa Stanisic, is an autobiographical novel about a life uprooted by war.
The Best Mystery Novels of 2021
Our crime fiction columnist picks the books that wowed her this year.
A Novel Asks: How Should a Man Write About Women?
“The Women I Love,” by Francesco Pacifico, finds a writer of bawdy satires in a more contemplative mood.
You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale.
In “Learwife,” J.R. Thorp explores the untold story of Lear’s queen, a tale rife with cruelty, betrayal and passion.
In This Novel, Art Is the Key to Another’s Consciousness
“White on White,” by Aysegul Savas, is a study of interiority told through exchanges between a scholar and a painter.
The Best Thrillers of 2021
They may be (relatively) low on body counts, but the year’s most chilling, atmospheric reads will still set your pulse racing and your heart pounding.
New & Noteworthy, From Christmas Stories to a Photographer Nanny
A selection of books published this week.
‘You Are Here’: Mapping Climate Change, Make Believe and Murder
New coffee table books offer an array of cartographical research for the most visual of learners.
Talking About the Best Books of 2021
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
In Lydia Davis’s Work, Writing and Translating Provocatively Commingle
Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked.
Book Review: 'Garbo,' by Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb’s scrupulous study, “Garbo,” suggests that the great star was a sphinx without a secret.
New in Paperback: ‘Mantel Pieces’ and ‘Borges and Me’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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