The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream.

This book review is a Trojan horse. Ostensibly it concerns a collection of letters titled “Love, Joe,” written by the ...

Blood Ties' interrogates the meaning of family and takes a close look at the adage that blood runs thicker than water ...

Developers and environmentalists do battle over a deserted lighthouse in Page's 13th absorbing "body" book (after 2002's The Body in the Bonfire) to feature Faith Fairchild, caterer, sometime ...

I was likely more caught up in Rushdie’s flowing prose and style and his remarkable ability to sustain a narrative over 500 ...

Seasons of Want and Plenty” is set in the 1860s, the decade during which Alaska slipped away from the Russian Empire, and ...

This book examines how, from the early days of steam, railways have driven the development of countries around the World.