Mon May 22 2023books
Good Night, Sweet Prince
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
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Mon May 22 2023books
Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Mon May 22 2023books
After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
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Sun May 21 2023books
A Classic of Golden Age Detective Fiction Turns 100
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Mon May 22 2023books
Did She Cheat? A Century Later, a Novel’s Mystery Still Stumps.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
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Sun May 21 2023books
For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
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Sat May 20 2023books
A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
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Sun May 07 2023books
The Best Romance Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
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Sun Apr 16 2023books
What Book Should You Read Next?
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
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Sun Feb 08 2026books
In This Sour Satire, Liberals Open a Door, Not Always Their Hearts, to Migrants
As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but “A Better Life” feels full of easy targets.
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Sun Feb 08 2026business
The New Fabio Is Claude
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
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Sun Feb 08 2026books
Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
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Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir
Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the built world with a wary eye.
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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change
The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.
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Meet the Rubinsteins. They’re Messy, but They’re Mensches.
In her new novel in stories, “This Is Not About Us,” Allegra Goodman traces the small but vivid dramas of one sprawling Jewish family.
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5 Weeks Alone on an Island, With a Rifle and a License to Kill
In his new novel, Jonathan Miles considers the complicated ethics and logistics of eliminating an invasive species.
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How Nintendo Became the Most Fun Video Game Company
Video games are big business, and the company behind Mario, Zelda and Pokémon may be the most important player, says the author of a new corporate history.
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My Kids Love Raina Telgemeier Books. What Should They Read Next?
Thirteen recommendations for fans of the Smile series.
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again.
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6 New Books We Love This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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The Essential Toni Morrison
Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding something new to discover. Here’s where to start.
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An Exhilarating, Drug-Fueled, True-Crime Thriller
In “A Killing in Cannabis,” Scott Eden tells the story of a man who tried to straddle the lines between the legal and black-market cannabis worlds, with deadly consequences.
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Cristina Rivera Garza: ‘I Write Vertically, but I Read Horizontally’
“I love to fall asleep with a book nearby,” says the “Autobiography of Cotton” author. “Dreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways.”
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Can a One-Night Stand Lead to Love? These Romance Novels Say Yes.
The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.
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Is ‘Wuthering Heights’ Actually the Greatest Love Story of All Time?
Catherine and Heathcliff are returning to the screen, but their passion burns brightest in a handful of sentences from Emily Brontë’s novel.
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A Bernie Bro Writes a Fawning Biography of His Hero
In “Bernie for Burlington,” Dan Chiasson’s affection for his subject risks turning history into a sales pitch.
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An Engrossing Memoir Asks: Is Telling the Truth a Betrayal?
In “The Family Snitch,” the reporter Francesca Fontana delves into her father’s criminal history — and their complicated, painful relationship.
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He Died at 49. His Collected Poems Rank With the Best of the 20th Century.
Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.
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A Loving Biography of the Photographer Who Made Poetry With His Pictures
The pioneering photographer André Kertész is the subject of a new book by Patricia Albers.
Read moreTue Feb 03 2026business
Virginia Oliver, Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ and Folk Hero, Dies at 105
She fished off the New England coast for more than 80 years, and intended to continue until she died. “It’s not hard work for me,” she said at 101.
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Michael Parenti, Unapologetic Marxist Theorist and Author, Dies at 92
A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.
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In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
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A Girl Is Dead, and a Community Mourns. Or Does It?
The death of an Afghan American teenager exposes the limits of assimilation and acceptance in Patmeena Sabit’s panoramic novel, “Good People.”
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