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Mon, 22 May 2023 23:58:44 +0000
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Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
Mon, 22 May 2023 10:54:20 +0000
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“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
Mon, 22 May 2023 14:18:12 +0000
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In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
Sun, 21 May 2023 09:00:12 +0000
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Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Mon, 22 May 2023 09:00:23 +0000
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“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
Sun, 21 May 2023 09:00:07 +0000
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Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
Sat, 20 May 2023 22:30:41 +0000
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The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:33:10 +0000
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Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:58:55 +0000
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Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:38:49 +0000
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Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:00:29 +0000
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Sarah MacLean’s “These Summer Storms” is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:00:19 +0000
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“2024,” a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:01:53 +0000
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“A Marriage at Sea” tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:42:09 +0000
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“Vera, or Faith” follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:27:28 +0000
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The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality of navigating environmental crisis.
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:00:13 +0000
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In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:59:26 +0000
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Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in “Culpability.”
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:00:24 +0000
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Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three dystopian novels to read this summer.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:00:23 +0000
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The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer’s fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises.
Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:58:44 +0000
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Our columnist reviews recent releases.
Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:00:51 +0000
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With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.
Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:23:23 +0000
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“Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:17:57 +0000
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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:12:51 +0000
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He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:00:42 +0000
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Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and a live-action movie.
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:54:46 +0000
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Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs.
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:58:45 +0000
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A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:53:50 +0000
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In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:30:57 +0000
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Our columnist on July’s most notable books.