On the Lam in the Wild West, With Bounty Hunters Trailing
Kevin Barry’s new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century.
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Kevin Barry’s new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century.
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More than 500 writers and notable book lovers have shared their picks for the best books of the 21st century. Now it’s your turn.
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“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story.
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Todgers, vampires and celebrity book clubs: It’s been quite a ride.
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A Silence Is Shattered, and So Are Many Fans of Alice Munro
Admirers said they were “blindsided” by revelations that Munro’s youngest daughter had been abused by her stepfather — and that Munro stayed with him even after she learned of it years later.
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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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Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors.
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Back When Women Were Told to ‘Write Like a Man’
For the midcentury New York intellectuals, Ronnie Grinberg writes in a new book, a particular kind of machismo was de rigueur — even for women.
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The Angel of Death Has Some Reservations About His Job
Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
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Jailhouse Correspondence Gives Bernie Madoff the ‘Final Word’
The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
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Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”
By Sam Roberts
Her writing, from the late 1920s to the late ’40s, about sex, marriage, divorce, child rearing and work-life balance still resonates.
By Marsha Gordon
Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.
By Juan A. Ramírez
In her most recent book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” the best-selling author revels in a newfound preoccupation with birds — and drawing.
By Margaret Roach
Prague has survived wars and political strife — and through it all, its literary scene has thrived. Jaroslav Kalfar, the author of “Spaceman of Bohemia,” recommends books that connect readers to the city.
By Jaroslav Kalfar
Stacey D’Erasmo’s exploration of sustained creativity, “The Long Run,” is poignant, exhilarating and full of wise advice from lives well lived.
By Mary Gabriel
In “The Anthropologists,” Aysegul Savas celebrates the “unremarkable grace” of a couple’s ordinary days. It’s enchanting.
By MJ Franklin
With “Husbands & Lovers,” Beatriz Williams delivers a multigenerational yarn and a memorable ending.
By Michelle Ruiz
This week’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to find a dozen works of fiction that were published during the last years of the 20th century.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
We asked some literary luminaries to share their full ballots.
By The New York Times Books Staff
An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”
By Margot Roosevelt
Andrea Skinner said in The Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.
By Elizabeth A. Harris
Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.
By Alexandra Alter
His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.
By Robert D. McFadden
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A philandering father; a literary affair.
The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.
By Boris Fishman
Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?
By Ruth Franklin
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Kerry Howley, Djuna and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.
It can be thrillingly dangerous and profoundly comforting at the same time.
By Mac Barnett
In “Private Revolutions,” Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.
By Michelle T. King
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Want to indulge in juicy, page-turning escapism? We’ve got some recommendations.
By Elisabeth Egan
But “I’m averse to entertaining the thought that what I’m working on is a first draft,” she says, “which implies the necessity of a second, even a third.” Her new book is “Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael.”
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A New York Times Book Review editor recommends four books for the summer.
By Joumana Khatib, Karen Hanley and Claire Hogan
After 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his chair.
By Guy Trebay
A digital book, “Drawing for Nothing,” highlights some of the best art from canceled animation projects like “Me and My Shadow.”
By Robert Ito
The second annual Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace celebrated what Queen Camilla has called the “great adventure” of the written word.
By Jennifer Harlan and Alice Zoo
Recent books by Ghostface Killah, Kathleen Hanna, Michael McDonald and Darius Rucker hit notes both high and low.
By Alan Light
In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.
By Joseph Berger
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.
By MJ Franklin
In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.
By Kate Tuttle
Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.
By Louis Bayard
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
By Penelope Green
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Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start.
By Amelia Nierenberg
This short quiz tests your knowledge of certain Revolutionary War events and books about the era.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.
By Rusha Haljuci
Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.
By Robyn Creswell
J. Courtney Sullivan’s “The Cliffs” is a haunted house mystery steeped in historical context.
By Alice Elliott Dark
Nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that stories could corrupt susceptible minds. Moral panics over fiction have been common ever since.
By Lyta Gold
The writer and director, famous for making theatergoers squirm in their seats, says he feels most at home wherever the outsiders gather in his native city.
By Megan McCrea
The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters.
By Sarah Weinman
In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.
In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.
By Jim Windolf
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In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.
By Jennifer Schuessler
In Fernanda Trías’s novel “Pink Slime,” one woman holds out in her town after an environmental disaster, trapped in a limbo of indecision.
By Lydia Millet
Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Darrin Bell, Maggie Smith, David Friend and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Bullwinkel’s debut novel sheds light on the culture of youth women’s boxing through an ensemble cast of complicated characters. It packs a punch.
New novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a memoir by a “hacktivist” member of Anonymous — and more.
Our columnist reviews June’s horror releases.
By Gabino Iglesias
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