Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.”
The president’s rhetoric on Wednesday in announcing the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was steeped in exasperation and grief.
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.
Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, highlights memorable episodes from her eight years hosting the show, including conversations with Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson, James McBride and others.
In “When the Stars Go Dark,” the author of “The Paris Wife” tries her hand at a new genre.
Bailey talks about his new biography, and Julia Sweig discusses “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.”
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
From “Useful Delusions,” by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler, about why lying to ourselves can be good, to Adam Grant’s “Think Again,” about how we can reset our preconceived notions.
In different ways, three new books guide readers through the long struggle for equal rights.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Plans by Post Hill Press to publish the book, written by Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, have drawn sharp criticism.
She was a 51-year old former antiques dealer with no experience as a writer when she wrote to the editor of The World of Interiors magazine about a job. She was hired.
Mr. DiTrapano championed avant-garde work and relished taking chances on young, untested authors. His Tyrant Books produced some unexpected hits.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Adam Zagajewski, a poet of immigrants and exile, remains with us in verse.
‘The Book Review’ podcast began as a brief show with a rebellious touch. It became a forum for some of the biggest names in literature.
The New York Institute for the Humanities, founded in 1977 as a venue for cross-disciplinary conversation, is moving to the New York Public Library.
In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation.
Keiichiro Hirano’s “At the End of the Matinee” follows the star-crossed love story between a classical musician and a renowned reporter.
“The Promise,” Damon Galgut’s latest novel, is a portrait of pain and change in South Africa.
“I get superstitious. I once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. I took that book and dug a hole and buried it deep in the backyard.”
“Of Women and Salt” is a novel about sisters and mothers — and its author is an expert on these subjects.
His book, published in 1982 amid a brutal recession, foretold of a bountiful postindustrial information economy. He was half right.
With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.
In “Beloved Beasts,” Michelle Nijhuis tells the stories of the men and women who have fought to rescue endangered animals from extinction.
