From highly anticipated sequels to fresh voices debuting their first novels, the year is shaping up to be a thrilling one for book lovers. These releases reflect the diverse range of stories that ...

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same. By Alexandra Alter In a vibrant collection of ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a lot of options for her next act — including possible runs for governor of California in 2026 and president in 2028 — but writing a book may be ...

Guidebooks can be wonderful resources for helping travelers navigate destinations. But the best travel books can also inspire journeys. Fiction or nonfiction, there’s no shortage of books with a ...

Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other ...

Back in 1934, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered that price action displayed on charts, instead of behaving in a somewhat chaotic manner, had actually an intrinsic narrative attached. Elliot saw the ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...

After finding his alcoholic wife dead in the bathtub of their Berlin apartment, Kaspar, a 70-something bookstore owner, discovers an unfinished book she was writing, in secret, about her own ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.