Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

sharp and very funny memoir. By Amanda Hess His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely ...

”The Rivals” is Jane Pek’s latest mystery novel featuring the online dating detective Claudia Lin. Murakami began writing “The City” in March 2020, and while it’s no pandemic novel ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Plus, “The Hungry Season” details a Hmong rice farmer in the Central Valley. Finally, “Dancing the Afrofuture,” a memoir studying hip hop culture.

Ambai’s refusal to provide closure, in contravention of the set rules of the genre, is one of the ways in which she re-invents the form.

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In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

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The precipitous drop comes as the state struggles with an influx of illegal immigrants, rising crime, and local corruption. Other recipients include Bono, Denzel Washington, and Michael J. Fox ...