He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” brings together a constellation of characters and legends in a Polish border region. By Ben Markovits Ben Markovits’s latest novel, “The Rest of Our ...