Book Review

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Will Transport You to Oth...

The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite nove...

5 New Books We Recommend This Week

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

Books to Read When It’s Hot Outside

Cool down with chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine adventure novels.

Ivy Pochoda Tries Her Hand at Horror in a New Novel, ‘E...

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural femi...

Interview: V.E. Schwab on Her Lesbian Vampire Novel and...

“No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate,” says th...

The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Summer

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: ...

Book Review: ‘Collisions,’ by Alec Nevala-Lee

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the...

A Gatsby Boat Tour Explores F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long ...

A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip ar...

Poetry Review: ‘Cemeteries and Galaxies,’ by John Koethe

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest col...

Book Review: ‘Make It Ours,’ by Robin Givhan

In “Make It Ours,” Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer’s short, histori...

Book Review: ‘The Nimbus,’ by Robert P. Baird

Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P....

Book Review: ‘The Compound,’ by Aisling Rawle

“The Compound” takes place on the set of a deeply twisted reality TV show.

Book Review: ‘The Girls Who Grew Big,’ by Leila Mottley

In Leila Mottley’s new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to su...

Goodbye to Berlin: New Novels Recall a City’s ‘Poor but...

Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe’s lic...

Book Review: ‘The Sisters,’ by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a bi...

Four Recent Poetry Collections Worth Reading

And A.O. Scott on the joys inherent in giving poems a close read.

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