Frank B. Wilderson III talks about his experimental approach to writing about blackness and violence, as well as the solace he found in Sarah Vaughan.
In his new collection of novellas, “Broken,” Don Winslow pays playful tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Steve McQueen.
In “Afterlife,” even privilege can’t shield a Dominican-American widow from the immigrant’s plight.
Dip into a bizarre true-crime chronicle or a novel that evokes the campy, oddball world of the Netflix documentary series.
Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment.
John Kay and Mervyn King’s “Radical Uncertainty,” Stanislas Dehaene’s “How We Learn” and Anthony David’s “Into the Abyss” plumb the depths of the brain.
The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour discusses the specific challenges of raising teenagers during the pandemic, and Dwight Garner asks Pamela Paul about putting together the Book Review.
C Pam Zhang’s debut, “How Much of These Hills Is Gold,” is one of several new or forthcoming books by Asian-American writers set in a period that historically hasn’t recognized them.
In 1968, at her urging, Charles M. Schulz added Franklin Armstrong to his enormously popular comic strip as a way to promote racial equality.
She gave up the stage for the writing life, publishing biographies of some famous friends and two powerful memoirs. She died of the coronavirus.
Canada’s National Arts Center is using streaming video for authors to promote their spring and summer titles to a nation stuck indoors by the pandemic.
Aron Nels Steinke, author of the “Mr. Wolf’s Class” series, describes the very real problem of a bibliophilic kid in this coronavirus moment.
In Marilyn Stasio’s latest column, the body count is high and the murderers more cunning than ever.
In Victoria Jamieson’s “When Stars Are Scattered,” a Somali boy pines for his mother and cares for his little brother with hope and humor during 15 years in a refugee camp.
Even for people who have lost jobs or income during the coronavirus epidemic, there are books and reading material available online for free.
In “Hidden Valley Road,” Robert Kolker unspools the story of Mimi and Don Galvin and their 12 children, six of whom developed schizophrenia.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the editor of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
Yoko Ogawa of Japan and Fernanda Melchor of Mexico are among the authors in the running for the prestigious translated literature award.
Our first reader-generated itinerary: a weekend of traveling you can do from home.
A new book looks at the figure of the American cowboy through the outlaw lens of Mr. Prince, an artist known for his sly borrowings.
In “Cool Town,” Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the story of R.E.M., the B-52’s and the musical city of Athens.
“Nothing in my life is organized, especially not my books.”
