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Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Edward L. Ayers’s “The Thin Light of Freedom” presents the War Between the States as experienced by ordinary people.
In “Supernormal,” the psychologist Meg Jay derives lessons from the lives of her troubled patients.
Taking on too much and too little are hazards of the form.
In Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s new book, the Hungarian writer pursues the apocalyptic themes and sprawling syntax that have won him a cult following.
Donald Trump’s lawyers threatened an injunction against Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” which makes its debut atop the hardcover nonfiction list.
An illustrated response to an anthropologist's urgent, vividly drawn inquiry into the havoc wreaked on human life by America's immigration policy.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Love shines out from gorgeous new books by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long, Oliver Jeffers, Nikki Giovanni and Ashley Bryan, and Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Richard Le Gallienne on Ezra Pound.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The historian, biographer and author talks about the books he reads and re-reads, and the ones he is very happy not to read.
David Frum’s “Trumpocracy” takes aim at the president and those who empower him, and “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, reads at times like a sly subtweet of the Republican Party.
Ruby Namdar’s “The Ruined House,” the winner of Israel’s prestigious Sapir Prize, now appears in English.
In “The Origins of Creativity,” E.O. Wilson argues for a different relationship between the humanities and both the practical and theoretical sciences.
In “The Newcomers,” Helen Thorpe documents a class of immigrant teenagers while the Trump campaign stirs up nativist resentment.
An exciting new partnership in which every month we’ll discuss a work of fiction or nonfiction that helps us make sense of today’s world. Join us!
Jesmyn Ward’s novel is our first pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”
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