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

Lauren Wilkinson's debut novel follows the life and career of an African American FBI agent who's recruited by the CIA to aid in the overthrow of a charismatic ...

Welcome to Vox's weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet's best writing on books and related subjects. Here's the best the web has to offer ...

What drives people to extremes – courage or recklessness? It's a question raised in a biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin.

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally ...

Maid, by Stephanie Land (Hachette). The author recalls a life lived on the brink, where a petty mishap can mean destitution. As a domestic cleaner “paid near ...

Two big things happened recently in the world of book reviewing, one quite good and one very bad. We'll start with the bad. On Jan. 7, the Dallas Morning News ...

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Pitch Deadline: July 21, 2019. Each fall, High Country News produces its Books & Authors issue, showcasing some of the best and most exciting writing about ...

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that top Justice Dept. officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment. But his new book is about far ...

It may not have been intended for publication, but the novel's exuberant spirit offers an insight into Bolaño's later work.

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

The wonderful children's book, The Teacup Café, which I reviewed in January, is headed to 570 Maine Schools, thanks to Central Maine Power Company.

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' No. 1. Writer Jordie Bellaire and artist Dan Mora Review by Meredith Harris, The Great Escape Louisville. Welcome back to the ...

Within the first 15 pages of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the narrator, Tracker, visits a dead king in an alternate realm to drag him back to the living; sleeps with an ...

Marianne Power had me at hello. I'd only read a few pages of her blog-turned-memoir, “Help Me!: One Woman's Quest to Find Out If Self-Help Really Can ...

Hope County looks different in Far Cry New Dawn, but is there enough balance between the new and the old to make it worth a visit?

The author of “Figuring” (and the brain behind the Brain Pickings website) likes how children's books speak “a language of absolute sincerity, so deliciously ...

The story of Green Book reads: "Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr Don Shirley (Ali), ...

Though the essays, speeches, and meditations in Toni Morrison's new nonfiction collection were written over the course of four decades, virtually every entry ...

Roger McNamee talks about “Zucked,” and Charles Finch discusses the season's best thrillers.

In “Lost Children Archive,” an unhappily married couple set out on a road trip, with their two young children, to visit the ancestral homeland of the Apaches in ...

Last year, while promoting his debut thriller, “The Woman in the Window,” Dan Mallory praised the tradition of literary mimicry: “It is often said that 'good writers ...

Netflix's first foray into the superhero genre without Marvel is a confident and hilarious trip. Here's our spoiler-free review of The Umbrella Academy.

The story of a larger-than-life bowling enthusiast deftly flits between tragedy and comedy.

The Longest Shortest Time podcast host Hillary Frank compiled anecdotes for “Weird Parenting Wins.”

In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform's troubling rise to ...

Mary Pipher's “Women Rowing North” takes a New Age approach to a harsh reality.

In “King of Scars,” Leigh Bardugo returns to the Grishaverse she created in her “Shadow and Bone” and “Six of Crows” series, where citizens known as Grisha ...

Two long-term couples' lives are changed by a sudden death in Hadley's wonderful tale of ageing and adultery.

Good Housekeeping's books editor reveals her top 5 new books to read now.

Stand aside, Beowulf. There's a new epic hero slashing his way into our hearts, and we may never get all the blood off our hands. (Riverhead). Marlon James is ...

Lost Children Archive, the third novel by Valeria Luiselli, is at its heart a road story. A family of four ventures toward the border in Arizona from their home in New ...

The appeal of William K. Klingaman's 'The Darkest Year,' which uses contemporary sources to survey the national psyche in the tense months after the ...

Deborah E. Lipstadt's “Antisemitism: Here and Now” charts the new guises of an enduring hatred.

The writer Andrea Levy, who explored the experience of Jamaican British people in a series of novels over 20 years has died, aged 62, from cancer.

A lively novel of the Abstract Expressionist art scene that is everything you'd expect from critic Irving Sandler, who seemingly befriended every painter, writer and ...

The culture of internet book criticism is passionate and intense. Late last month, Amélie Wen Zhao, a debut author, canceled her young adult fantasy novel after ...

In 2015, car-and-rocket man Elon Musk joined with influential startup backer Sam Altman to put artificial intelligence on a new, more open course.

A refreshing approach to the Bible's texts, says Katharine Dell.

We review more than 8000 books per year, and these were the 10 most-read reviews of books published in 2018.

In this galvanising take on a true story about Scottish teenagers who stood up for an asylum-seeking friend, you have to park your cynicism to believe change is ...

THIS thoughtful contribution to the literature of pastoral care, while aimed at those practising in the American context, has much to offer pastoral carers in other ...

A SCHOOL history, such as Peter Leroy's well-told account of Monkton Combe School, is a window on a world. It is, to be sure, a little world to those outside it, ...

Stephen King, a recent Times reviewer, wrote back in 30 seconds and was a “dream” to edit. It's not always that easy.

Backed by social media support from author and Maine resident Stephen King, a petition and lobbying effort by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance has ...

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the influential critic who died earlier this week, wrote some 4,000 reviews and essays during his three-decade tenure covering ...

Susan Orlean had never burned a book before. The idea was repulsive to her, calling up images of Nazis tossing Torahs into the flames. But she wanted to know ...

“Green Book” is a road movie set in 1962, long before Apple or Google Maps or Waze, but as it makes its way from New York to Alabama and back, you might ...

Dennis Richards looks at 70 years of trying to get education right.

Susan Orlean's “The Library Book” is an absorbing account of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Central Library and a homage to libraries ...

Elevation” is a slim, humane novel about the virtues of being neighborly.

Pamela Paul and two other editors of The New York Times Book Review explain how they use the section's long tradition as a “political Switzerland” to try to ...

*Fresh* Air's book critic recommends her 10 favorite books of the year, including The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai's sweeping story about the AIDS epidemic ...

Andrew Roberts's “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” tells the full story of an extraordinary life.

The delay didn't help. We've waited almost two months to get our hands on Anna Burns's “Milkman,” the novel that won the Man Booker Prize in London on Oct.

Helen Schulman's “Come With Me” delves into the interplay of technology and relationships with edgy, upsetting and tragic results. And yet, the story is also ...

Rock music has always had a kinship with violence, from Jerry Lee Lewis's flaming piano to the pantomimed gun deaths in Childish Gambino's recent “This Is ...

Back in 1911, The Times discovered a trove of literary criticism inside one of the state's most notorious prisons — but couldn't figure out who the author was.

Hang on tight. James Frey has written a memoir disguised as a novel about his first novel that was disguised as a memoir. But the only thing you really need to ...

This revealing memoir offers new insights into her upbringing on the south side of Chicago and the highs and lows of life with Barack Obama.

To Herodotus and Homer, dreams were divine prophesies to be interpreted by priests. Then psychoanalysts saw them as the quickest route to the unconscious.

John Grisham's latest novel will have you moving around in your seat like a whacky roller coaster.

Green Book took home three Golden Globe Awards on Sunday for Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and supporting actor Mahershala Ali — and that's hardly a ...

The former first lady's memoir is mostly about her childhood in Chicago, her marriage and her time in the White House, but she leaves room for some ...

If it occasionally feels like nobody reads books, anymore—that we are indeed witnessing the slow death of the literary novel, and the rapid decline of leisure ...

Ben East reviews the American author's latest novel, which tells the story of a man grappling with something supernatural.

With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she's one of the greatest stylists alive. The British author of seven novels and several story ...

Eighty-seven and 33. That's the age of John McPhee and the number of books he's written, counting his latest, "The Patch." It's a slim book divided in two.

In “The Witch Elm,” squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.

The book opens with the Fantastic Four moving into their new headquarters in Grimm's apartment on the eve of the wedding.

The novel relates our current culture war to the battle over Darwin more than a century ago.

Ever since I was young, I've loved stories set in the far-flung reaches of the West's many empires — from the British Raj of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India to ...

John Boyne's novel is a satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller.

Unsheltered,” a big, gripping, emotionally complex novel on the same scale as “The Poisonwood Bible,” explores what it means to have a safe place in the ...

Mr. Rogers's dangerous side, what we lose when hymnbooks disappear, and quitting the tug-of-war over Dietrich Bonhoeffer's legacy.

The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Toward the end of Tommy Orange's devastating debut novel, a 4-year-old Native American boy keeps asking his grandma: “What are we? What are we?” (Knopf).

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, ...

Apple Photos no longer lets you create projects such as photo books within its interface. However, the printing *service* that was behind those projects is now ...

Diane Setterfield haunts familiar ground in “Once Upon a River,” an eerily mystic tale of a mute child who captivates the local townspeople after she's seemingly ...

Here is a window into how the world of book publishing works: Last fall, while on a book tour, I received a note from an editor at Penguin Books asking whether I ...

Siva Vaidhyanathan details the many ways Facebook divides us, and offers suggestions on how to counter its damaging effect on democracy.

The former first lady's long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family's trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago's South Side ...

Louisa Hall's “Trinity” uses fictional characters to revisit the life and legacy of Robert Oppenheimer.

Orlean's latest, inspired by the mystery of a fire that destroyed and damaged more than a million books in Los Angeles, is also a tribute to public libraries.

Mixbook is one of our favorite photo book services with an awesome web-based creation tool, and excellent print quality.

Founded in 1999, Shutterfly has been in the online photo printing business the longest among all its DIY photo book competitors. It's very popular, with millions ...

Theses books target younger readers and share about the Book of Mormon with activities and illustrated stories and temple facts.

It's hard to imagine a more disturbing portrait of a president than the one Bob Woodward painted of Richard Nixon in his final days: paranoid, poisoned by power ...

It is a moment in history we return to again and again: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Entire libraries have been filled with volumes generated by this ...

In Anna Burns's novel, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, an unnamed girl is menaced by a political dissident's affections.

Picaboo is certainly a contender among the many services that let you create and order a custom photo book online. The company is mostly focused on photo ...

At 91, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker pulls no punches in "Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Governance."

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work ‱ By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson ‱ Harper Collins ‱ 240 pages ‱ ISBN 978-0008323448 ‱ £12.99.

It's been a fantastic year for new history books, but which titles absolutely demand attention? Here's an index of our books of the year 2018 – as chosen by our ...

Thought-provoking and relevant, Sofka Zinovieff's new novel “Putney” will provide plenty of book groups with fodder for discussions about female sexuality, child ...

Stephen Markley's bruising novel offers a prehistory of now.