Coincidence? In three new books, runaway shadows break away from their owners, seeking adventure and showing off their own personalities.
New books by Ricardo Piglia, Rodrigo Hasbún and Santiago Gamboa offer takes on the artistic mind.
A cosmic event has reshuffled epochs. It’s up to a 13-year-old with “mixed” parents — from different eras — to keep the world on course.
Melissa del Bosque investigates a paramilitary drug cartel through the lens of a valiant F.B.I. agent, revealing binational brutality in grim detail.
“I’m Just No Good at Rhyming,” the debut collection from Chris Harris and Lane Smith, includes the silly, the whimsical, the absurd and more.
In her best-selling essay collection, “The Last Black Unicorn,” the star of “Girls Trip” writes about growing up in South Central Los Angeles.
Readers respond to book titles, cover art and more from previous issues.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Tom De Haven on comics.
When it comes to wintry Scandinavian lifestyle refinement, the words to know now are lykke, lagom and janteloven.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In their new collection, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar have reintroduced stories from the African diaspora.
The actor and co-author of, most recently, “Otherworld” has been reading a lot of plays. “There is such an admirable fearlessness in that world.”
In “Vacationland,” John Hodgman wrestles with the comic trials of home ownership in Maine and Massachusetts, along with the indignities of middle age.
Two newly published books by the French author who pulled off one of the most elaborate literary deceptions of all time.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Michael Kodas’s “Megafire” and Edward Struzik’s “Firestorm” analyse the misguided history and dire results of America’s wildfire management policy.
David Goldfield’s “The Gifted Generation” explains the importance of government.
In Jenny Erpenbeck’s timely novel, a retired classics professor finds his routine existence transformed when he befriends a group of African refugees.
Seeking books about other books and about the people who contribute to, live and breathe the world of literature.
Manohla Dargis reviews two new books that examine the aesthetics and the business of comics, from Superman to R. Crumb.
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