Do You Know Where These Classic Novels Are Set?
Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
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Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
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A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
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He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
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In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
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Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
In “Frostbite,” Nicola Twilley travels the cold chain that preserves what we eat and helps it get around the world.
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What Happened to the Well-Mannered Cat Burglar?
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and tabloid fixture — Arthur Barry.
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Two Sisters, Joined in Hardship and Separated by a Bear
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
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Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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Anthony Fauci, a Hero to Some and a Villain to Others, Keeps His Cool
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health crises: AIDS and Covid-19.
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Millions of Americans Watched ‘The Apprentice.’ Now We Are Living It.
As a new book by Ramin Setoodeh shows, Donald Trump brought the vulgar theatrics he honed on TV to his life in politics.
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The 1990s Were Weirder Than You Think. We’re Feeling the Effects.
In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right.
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In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).
By Nathaniel Rich
Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets.
By Daisy Fried
Rather than bemoan pop culture’s most divisive genre, Emily Nussbaum spends time with the creators, the stars and the victims of the decades-long effort to generate buzz.
By Eric Deggans
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
By Adam Nossiter
Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.
By Aida Alami
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
By Jess Walter
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
By Scott Veale
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
By David Segal
Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
“The New Breadline,” by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist — along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it.
By Alec MacGillis
Tracy O’Neill’s memoir, “Woman of Interest,” recounts her yearlong quest, which culminates in a trip to Korea.
By Sloane Crosley
With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
By Wilson Wong
A dinner party at the other woman’s house; the evening before a jail sentence.
After getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States.
By Alexandra Alter
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Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life.
By Brian Dillon
Santiago Jose Sanchez’ debut novel, “Hombrecito,” follows a young immigrant as he grows up in the United States, struggling to identify with a masculinity he’s never felt and a country he never knew.
By Miguel Salazar
In “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the actor and director recalls his years growing up around performers, writers and the Hollywood set.
After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.
By Jennifer Schuessler
This week's selection includes titles by Gabrielle Zevin, Peace Adzo Medie, Patrick Mackie and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
In her latest book, Olivia Laing makes an impassioned case for the garden — as repository of natural beauty, as democratic ideal, as writerly inspiration.
By A.O. Scott
For young magazine readers with literary pretensions, it wasn’t just our best option; it was our only option.
By Sadie Stein
“Contemporary Art Underground” showcases hundreds of artworks commissioned by the M.T.A., by artists like Alex Katz, Kiki Smith and Vik Muniz.
By Erica Ackerberg
He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”
By Sam Roberts
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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“The material that he uses for the songs is powerfully moving, involving his own personal losses,” the 88-year-old poet says. Also name-checked in “So What”: an Italian motorcycle magnate.
In “Adventures in Volcanoland,” the geologist Tamsin Mather takes us on a global and historical investigation of her life’s passion.
By Carl Zimmer
Across two new books, the ideal of a global free market buckles under pressure from protesters, politicians of all stripes and the Covid pandemic.
By Matthew Zeitlin
In her memoir, “Pets and the City,” Amy Attas reflects on three decades of caring for animals (and, by extension, humans) right in their own homes.
By Elisabeth Egan
As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.
By Clay Risen
She received a diagnosis of Stage 4 breast cancer late in her second pregnancy and described her experience in a book, “Little Earthquakes: A Memoir.”
By Richard Sandomir
Andrew O’Hagan’s ambitious state-of-England novel finds a cosseted academic facing up to the hard lives and ethical shortcuts he’d prefer to ignore.
By Francesca Peacock
In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.
By Rob Doyle
Is the Mob Museum on your list? The writer and illustrator sees his new guide to North America’s museums as a way to help families plan their summer vacations.
By Amy Virshup
In “The Indispensable Right,” Jonathan Turley argues that the First Amendment has been deeply compromised from the start.
By Jeff Shesol
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In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
By Dennis Duncan
In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at the beach.
By Cathi Hanauer
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”
By Anne Hull
“Same as It Ever Was,” by Claire Lombardo, is a 500-page, multigenerational examination of the ties that bind.
By Hamilton Cain
This quick quiz challenges you to identify a film’s source material based on a photo. Click here to play!
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Our columnist on three twisty new tales of murder.
By Sarah Lyall
In her new book, Jessica Goudeau confronts a history of racism and violence in Texas through an investigation of her ancestors’ stories.
By W. Caleb McDaniel
Joseph Earl Thomas’s new novel, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” follows a health care worker on a tumultuous shift where every other patient seems to be someone from his past.
By Danez Smith
The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.
By Michael Paulson
A comprehensive new biography, by Michael Nott, lays bare the tragic circumstances behind a brilliant iconoclast’s life and work.
By David Orr
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In Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “Little Rot,” two exes trying to recover after a breakup inadvertently stumble into a dark, disturbing and dangerous side of Nigeria.
By Chelsea Leu
In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life, work and influence.
By Francine Prose
In “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,” Glynnis MacNicol ignores the pearl-clutchers and does just that.
By Joanna Rakoff
Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song.
By Walker Mimms
Justice, feminism, freedom and cheap horror thrills make for an exciting month of reading.
By Sam Thielman
The second novel from the co-host of the “Who? Weekly” podcast follows a West Village writer in the early 1990s and today.
By Stephen McCauley
Three editors gather to discuss 10 books they’re looking forward to over the next several months.
In a new book, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. The chapter about Donald J. Trump is titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Elliot Page, Binyavanga Wainaina and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him?
By Marisa Meltzer
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Kids don’t need to know what zydeco is, or that Mandy and the Meerkats are a nod to Diana Ross and the Supremes, to dig this spoof of vintage vinyl.
By Bruce Handy
Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.
By Steven Kurutz
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “The Fall of Roe,” Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer explain exactly how Roe v. Wade was made — and unmade.
By Mattie Kahn
To write “Exhibit,” the queer novelist says she had to pretend that no one would read it. “By writing things I’m afraid of saying, I might stand a chance of voicing what I, too, really need and long to see in words.”
A theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist, he upended his field by focusing on social networks to explain how society works. His writing was compared to James Joyce’s.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Bill Hall, the proprietor, has assembled a vast collection of hard-to-find fashion books and magazines coveted by designers and influencers.
By T.M. Brown
This trio of novels ushers readers into three different but equally mesmerizing long-ago worlds.
By Alida Becker
Adam Ehrlich Sachs reveals a society on the verge of cataclysm in his new novel, “Gretel and the Great War.”
By Dustin Illingworth
Mr. Potter narrated the epic sagas of popular comic book heroes and villains on his channel Comicstorian.
By Emmett Lindner
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At the Cato Institute, he argued against government interference in Americans’ lives, including policing their drug use, and supported legal equality for gay people.
By Sam Roberts
Jake Gyllenhaal steps in for Harrison Ford in a new, highly strung adaptation of Scott Turow’s legal thriller for Apple TV+.
By Mike Hale
Fred C. Trump III’s “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” will hit shelves July 30.
By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter
Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
By Nick Hornby
Her first novel, “Ask Me Again,” follows a young woman from high school in New York City to an elite university, to her early adulthood among the political class in Washington, D.C.
By Andrew Martin
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems.
By Kashana Cauley
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait reveals more about him than her.
By Alissa Wilkinson
The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops.
By Claire Wang
Try your hand at uncovering a reading list of thrillers in this Title Search puzzle.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Her new novel, “Parade,” considers the perplexity and solipsism of the creative life.
By Dwight Garner
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Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details.
By Alexandra Alter
Bibliophiles will find plenty of centuries-old tomes, graphic novels, modern works and more in this French city, which also happens to be this year’s UNESCO World Book Capital.
By Seth Sherwood
In Marcela Fuentes’s novel, “Malas,” a troubled teenager finds refuge in music and in a recluse with a dark history.
By Carribean Fragoza
In his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the Hollywood hyphenate Griffin Dunne, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” recounts his privileged upbringing.
By Alexandra Jacobs
Thomas Harris’s book came at a pivotal moment: One of the last smash hits of the ’90s, it was also one of the first big releases of the hyper-speed, hyper-opinionated internet era.
By Brian Raftery
In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause.
By Sam Kean
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