Book Review

She was hailed for her books and admired for promoting women’s rights. But her support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict angered many.

Ditch the dye; live with style.

Joseph O’Neill’s fiction incorporates his real-world interests in ways that can surprise even him. His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar.

In Joseph O’Neill’s new novel, the search for an African sports prodigy is wrapped around a story of American workplace dysfunction.

Scott Preston’s debut novel, “The Borrowed Hills,” unfolds during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain.

In “Ambition Monster,” Jennifer Romolini recounts a rise from blue-collar dropout to “Corporate Barbie,” and what it cost her.

Everett’s latest novel revisits “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s fellow runaway.

Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Colson Whitehead, Lorrie Moore, Jennifer Ackerman and more.

Picture book writers whose works look different from one another because they’re illustrated by different artists are less apt to be on your radar.

Our columnist reviews May’s most chilling releases.

The days are long, but this summer’s bounty of historical fiction will remind you that the years are short.

There be monsters in four new volumes out this month (yes, even in “Nancy”).

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.

“Make eye contact, shake their hand, ask them about themselves and then sign their book with a genuine smile,” suggests the author of the Wyoming-set mystery series. The 20th, “First Frost,” is just out.

In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.

She was the first photographer allowed to document life among the Hopi, in the Southwest, since the early 20th century. Her work appeared in books and magazines.

In “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt,” Edward F. O’Keefe explores the informal kitchen cabinet that helped Roosevelt, the 26th president, speak softly and carry a big stick.

“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.

She believed the bond between adults was as sustaining as that between parent and child, and developed a therapy to strengthen and repair broken relationships.

This urban island is home to a huge number of popular books for younger readers. Try this short quiz to see how many you recognize.

In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday — and underground — practice.

In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.

How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.

Chigozie Obioma, the fifth of 12 children in a Nigerian family, dreamed of following in Maradona’s footsteps. Bouts of malaria drove him to books — and changed his life.

Teddy Wayne takes a swing at sex, class and sporty intrigue in his latest novel, “The Winner.”

Stuart E. Eizenstat has served half a dozen U.S. presidents and made a lot of friends. In “The Art of Diplomacy,” he lays out some of their teachable moments.

With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” and other books that have endured as parenting bibles.

A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection.

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.

In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.

An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”

Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.

Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.

The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.

His own dark history prompted him to write about and investigate the roots of violence, notably in his best-selling novel “The Alienist.”

At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the banality of the graduation ceremony is a tradition worth celebrating.

This week's selection includes titles by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Emma Donoghue, Elizabeth Acevedo and more.

Some books sprint; others take the scenic route. The heady, highly absorbing titles here earn their marathon run times.

Two new picture books dive into refugee childhoods.