Friday, March 15, 2024 - 12:11pm
By Thúy Đinh
Author Susan Lieu transforms her acclaimed 2019 one-woman show — 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother -- into a memoir of her family after the death of her mother due to botched plastic surgery.
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Anna Holmes
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lydia Kiesling
Sierra Greer’s debut novel, “Annie Bot,” explores questions of misogyny and toxic masculinity by following a pleasure robot that begins to develop her own consciousness.
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 5:00am
By Charlie Lee
In Armando Lucas Correa’s thriller “The Silence in Her Eyes,” vision impairment only enhances a young woman’s sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 3:31pm
By David Stout
He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:48pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 6:00am
By Gabino Iglesias
Gina Chung's collection is a fantastic medley of short stories that dance between literary fiction, fable, Korean folklore, and science fiction — and one that's full of emotional intelligence.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 6:00am
By Alexandra Alter
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 5:03am
By Elisabeth Egan
Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 5:03am
By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai
The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list?