Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sylvia Plath’s Papers to Vintage Matchbooks
This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)
7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
If You Give a Kid a Notebook, He’s Going to Ask for Time to Write
John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.
Interview: By the Book with Ada Limón
“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.”
For Len Cariou, Dying Onstage Each Night Has Been ‘Invigorating’
In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”
Book Reviews: ‘The Liberty Paradox,’ by David Kinley; ‘America Last,’ by Jacob Heilbrunn; ‘Our Ancient Faith,’ by Allen Guelzo
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
Rebel Wilson Talks About Her Memoir, ‘Rebel Rising’
The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.”
Book Review: ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender?,’ by Judith Butler
Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
Jon Agee Reviews 3 Satirical Kids’ Books About Problematic Parents
The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
Alice Randall Made Country History. Black Women Are Helping Tell Hers.
In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
John Barth, a Novelist Who Found Possibility in a ‘Used-Up’ Form
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.
Maryse Condé, ‘Grande Dame’ of Francophone Literature, Dies at 90
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.
New York Times Readers on Their Picks for Funniest Books
Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices.
Book Review: ‘The Return of Great Powers,’ by Jim Sciutto; ‘Up in Arms,’ by Adam E. Casey
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
Book Review: ‘The Sicilian Inheritance,’ by Jo Piazza
A Philadelphia chef goes searching for her family history in Jo Piazza’s sun-baked multigenerational tale “The Sicilian Inheritance.”
Book Review: ‘Choice,’ by Neel Mukherjee
An editor’s ambition. A coveted manuscript. The gift of a cow. Lives and lies graze one another in Neel Mukherjee’s tragicomic novel.
Once Upon a Time, the World of Picture Books Came to Life
The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”
Don Winslow Is Ready to Trade His Pen for a Protest Sign
“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism.
Peter Brown, One of the Beatles’ Closest Confidants, Tells All (Again)
At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.
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