The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

He owed his academic career to Edmund Husserl, who more than anyone else originated existentialist thinking with ... Towards the end of this absorbing and enjoyable book, Bakewell writes: ‘Ideas are ...

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.

From new novels, nonfiction books and celeb memoirs, find your next fall read here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

In “We Who Wrestle With God,” the Canadian provocateur finds that biblical staples confirm his favorite theories about the culture war New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and ...

Our critics have picked their favourite books of the year and reviewed them all for you in our Christmas Fiction round up. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer ...

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 ...

The opening page of Malka Older’s new book says simply, “There are other ways to live.” That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives 2024 was the year of the breakup book; you couldn’t encounter the new-releases table at the bookstore without running into a flurry of wonderful ...