‘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.
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.”
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