The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Celebrate the literature of this festive month with with a five ...
Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really is stranger than fiction. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer's having an easy life.
December 10, 2024 • This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's ...
It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...