The Cotton Gin, Squirrel Hill and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New Books About Music
Memoirs from John Lurie and Stevie Van Zandt, a biography of Aaliyah and more.
New Books About Sports
The season’s latest releases take up the New England Patriots, the origin story of Giannis Antetokounmpo — and the role of discrimination, protests and money in the world of athletics.
New Photography Books to Read
Lucy Sante analyzes works from Annie Leibovitz, Harry Gruyaert, Gilles Peress, Catherine Opie and other masters of the form.
7 New Travel Books
The travels chronicled here include a journey to track snow leopards in Tibet, a trip along Colombia’s Magdalena River and a retracing of Garibaldi’s famous 400-mile retreat through Italy in 1849.
9 New Pop Culture Books to Read
Lisa Schwarzbaum reviews a selection of books that also includes Wil Haygood’s “Colorization,” which qualifies as “an invaluable national memoir.”
7 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read
Seven books comb through history, travel to distant planets and imagine our A.I. future.
7 New Cookbooks to Read
Let yourself by enticed by satiny flan, savory dumplings, Swiss almond cookies and more.
The Best Thrillers to Read This Season
Now that the pandemic feels a little less frightening, our critic writes, she’s ready to submit to the exquisite torture of a terrifying book.
New Historical Fiction to Read
Twelve new yarns will whisk readers to the past, where life was every bit as complicated, dramatic and story-worthy as the present.
The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021
The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.
Holiday Gift Books for Children
From a little suitcase that contains a towering cake to the ultimate shaggy dog story.
What African Americans Thought of Barack Obama
Claude A. Clegg III’s “The Black President” looks at the often surprising reactions of African Americans to the Obama administration.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists
“I love Dickens and Twain above all.”
Veteran Authors and Mistletoe Descend on the Best-Seller List
But where are the menorahs and Kwanzaa candles?
Shifting Styles and Blue Moods in the Pages of a Graphic Novel
Ed Park’s latest Graphic Content column looks at new work from Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson.
The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing
Peter Robison’s “Flying Blind” tells the full story of two air disasters and Boeing’s role in the crashes.
Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm?
In “Looking for the Good War,” the West Point scholar Elizabeth D. Samet argues that an idealized narrative of America’s actions in World War II has colored our beliefs about warfare in detrimental ways.
Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe
Alex Danchev’s biography of René Magritte portrays a subversive artist who had no interest in bohemian life.
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