What do these romance novels — featuring ghosts, Greek goddesses, a cardiologist, a fisherman, an astronaut and a Tang dynasty courtesan — have in common?
Baseball, basketball, Formula One: Six new books take readers on a tour from Madison Square Garden to Monza, Italy.
There’s something for everyone in this summer’s crop of thrillers.
It may be hot outside, but these novels — from Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” to Catriona Ward’s “Sundial” — cast a shivery chill.
Books about Viola Davis, Harvey Fierstein, Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward and more take us “into performance and creativity, slipping down old lanes, conducting close readings.”
You’ll swoon over recipes for burrata with honey, persimmons and pistachio; lemongrass-scented chai; sesame creamed spinach and more.
These novels remind us that people have made horrible mistakes since the beginning of time. (They also contain love, joy and triumph!)
Six new true-crime books take you from the South Seas to Shenandoah National Park, then from a rural doctor’s office in North Carolina to Chile.
Rethinking old myths and accepted narratives comes with risks, but the results can be thrilling.
Our summer roundup features Reich’s “Conversations,” Dan Charnas’s “Dilla Time” and Spector’s “Be My Baby.”
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nell McShane Wulfhart discusses her new history of a labor movement, and James Kirchick talks about “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.”
Coming-of-age novels set among the Métis community in Canada, the Māori population in New Zealand and the Crow Nation in Montana.
In “Two Wheels Good,” Jody Rosen makes clear that the bicycle has touched nearly every element of life on earth.
Controversies over how to memorialize the war began as soon as the conflict ended, and, as three new books show, they are still going on.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“What Can I Say?” and “You Know, Sex” help adolescents navigate the awkward age.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’” says the author, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” “I was able to let go of a lot of shame and self-hatred that turned out to be tied up in my accumulated belongings.”
Elin Hilderbrand and Jennifer Weiner deliver their annual installments of salty air, summer love and personal entanglements.
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