Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, ...

Omri Boehm’s new book argues that both the left and the right must abandon divisive identity politics and embrace the ...

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, one of the Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar’s search ...

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village ...

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Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

Crafting The New York Times Book Review’s annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare consensus. Credit...Holly Szczypka Supported by By Megan McCrea Times Insider ...

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...