Sex, Grief and Psychoanalysis on the Rue de Belleville
Lauren Elkin’s first novel, “Scaffolding,” traces the multiple infidelities of two Parisian couples a generation apart.
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Lauren Elkin’s first novel, “Scaffolding,” traces the multiple infidelities of two Parisian couples a generation apart.
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In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting portrait of American corruption by turning the craft of journalism into a pursuit of high art.
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In her latest memoir, Clinton takes on student protests, foreign policy and even clown school.
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In a frank and entertaining new memoir, the TV newscaster recounts how sexism, and Dan Rather, sidelined her groundbreaking career.
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How a Behind-the-Scenes ‘Kingmaker’ Developed a Talent for Diplomacy
Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.
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24 Works of Fiction and Poetry to Read This Fall
Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.
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Read Your Way Through Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a literary city: Its residents like to boast about its many bookstores and independent publishers. Samanta Schweblin suggests which books and authors to start with.
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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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Best-Seller Lists: Sept. 22, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Sex, Drugs, Raves and Heartbreak
In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.
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The Endless Drama, and Tedium, of a Medical Mystery
Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”
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In ‘Lovely One,’ Ketanji Brown Jackson Credits the Mentors Who Lifted Her Up
The Supreme Court justice’s memoir is deeply personal and full of hope, and highlights a fairy-tale marriage to her college boyfriend.
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A Smart, Sinuous Espionage Thriller Brimming With Heat
Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent.
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An Impressive Monument to Christopher Isherwood, Man of Letters (and Lovers)
Though it downplays unflattering details, Katherine Bucknell’s big biography hails the 20th-century writer as an early advocate for the “chosen family.”
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Iris Apfel, Diane Keaton and Henri Bendel are just some of the style icons featured in the pages of this season’s most fashionable titles.
By Rachel Sherman
In Rumaan Alam’s new novel, “Entitlement,” giving away a fortune isn’t as easy as it sounds.
By Joseph O’Neill
In “One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman,” Abi Maxwell struggles to raise her daughter in a New Hampshire community that refuses to accept her.
By Alexandra Fuller
The self-help guru is joining the hotel mogul Sam Nazarian to open a chain of luxury preventive-medicine resorts, aiming for a slice of the $5.6 trillion wellness industry.
By Nora Walsh
In a letter, the University of Washington stated that the evidence presented in the confidential complaint failed to meet the institution’s criteria for plagiarism.
By Alexandra Alter
For the first time in the award’s 55-year history, five of the six nominated titles are by female authors.
By Alex Marshall
Try this short literary geography quiz on books with settings around the globe.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.
By Dwight Garner
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.
By Jennifer Szalai
In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.
By Elisabeth Egan
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter and the right utensils.
By Mattie Kahn
In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.
By Emily C. Hughes
Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.
By Chris Power
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“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.
By Brian Raftery
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
By Joumana Khatib
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
By Samantha Hunt
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
By Giles Harvey
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
By Ben Hatke
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
By Nicholas Casey
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
By Christopher Benfey
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
By Clay Risen
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
‘Chaos’ is an unruly word for a volatile time. The election is the least of it.
By A.O. Scott
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
By Alexandra Alter
Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.
By Alexandra Alter
Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.
By Zeke Faux
Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.
By Garth Risk Hallberg
The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”
In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.
By Jeff Gordinier
A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste.
By Alida Becker
A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.
By Gerald Howard
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Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.
By Dennis Duncan
In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.
By Doug Bock Clark
The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it — doing any publicity — remains a challenge, she said.
By Elizabeth Harris
In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.
By Melissa Broder
There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.
By Leah Greenblatt
In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.
By Angela Lashbrook
Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.
By Elisa Gabbert
Try this short quiz about screen adaptations and the source material that inspired them.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party.
By Jennifer Burns
Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.
By Katherine J. Chen
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A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.
By Marc Van De Mieroop
In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due.
By Azadeh Moaveni
In his new memoir, the CNN veteran opens up about faith, his midlife career upheaval and that time he got into homemade laundry detergent.
By Elisabeth Egan
In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of her own.
By Fiona Maazel
Elizabeth Alexander and John Bayley loved their partners to the end.
In “Tell Me Everything,” Bob Burgess deepens his emotional connection with Lucy Barton as he defends a local man accused of killing his mother.
By Alexis Schaitkin
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