Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...

Guidebooks can be wonderful resources for helping travelers navigate destinations. But the best travel books can also inspire journeys. Fiction or nonfiction, there’s no shortage of books with a ...

This is the scariest book I have ever read in my entire life - because it is about my death. Dr Matt Morgan, a top consultant in an intensive care unit, tells us that out of any 100 people who ...

‘The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia and peacetime rot.

With Sharon emerging unscathed from all of this, she decided to use different ingredients. On October 14, 2022, around a month before she was to marry the military officer, Greeshma invited Sharon to ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king ...