Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
Through a series of vignettes, Kauffman’s fifth novel centers on a woman determined to spend Christmas with her extended ...
The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families ...
In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...
The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...
These include Jacquelyne Jackson, the pioneering Black sociologist, and Maggie Kuhn, the charismatic founder of the advocacy ...
In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an immigration attorney and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a ...
By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...
By Zakiya Dalila Harris Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases. By Sarah Lyall The Books We’re Excited About in ...
agency and art after her book becomes a life-changing hit. By Zakiya Dalila Harris Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. The latest from a Nobel laureate, a “Hunger ...