The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/arts/harvard-human-skin-binding-book.html
In his unsparing novel “Wolf at the Table,” Adam Rapp observes a household in denial about the dark force growing up in its midst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/review/wolf-at-the-table-adam-rapp.html
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/kate-banks-dead.html
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/lyn-hejinian-dead.html
As “Carrie” turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer’s work has had on their lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/review/stephen-king-carrie-anniversary.html
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/jonathan-haidt-the-anxious-generation.html
In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/becca-rothfeld-all-things-are-too-small.html
Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/review/stephen-breyer-reading-the-constitution.html
Our columnist reviews this month’s haunting new releases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/review/new-horror-books.html
In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/review/death-row-welcomes-you-steven-hale.html
Crafting the arguments in “You Get What You Pay For,” her first essay collection, “felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy,” says the author of “Magical Negro.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/books/review/morgan-parker-you-get-what-you-pay-for.html
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/marjorie-perloff-dead.html
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html
How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/books/booksupdate/judith-butler-thinks-youre-overreacting.html
In “Worry,” Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions and maladjustments of adulthood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/books/review/worry-alexandra-tanner.html
In “Age of Revolutions,” the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/age-of-revolutions-fareed-zakaria.html
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/all-the-world-beside-garrard-conley.html
In Ferdia Lennon’s charming debut, “Glorious Exploits,” Athenian prisoners stage Euripides for their wine-swilling, foul-mouthed captors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/glorious-exploits-ferdia-lennon.html
After his partner, Molly Brodak, died by suicide, Blake Butler found painful truths in her journals and personal items.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/blake-butler-molly.html
The great Irish crime novelist talks about her newest series.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/talking-to-tana-french.html
“Carrie” was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/stephen-king-carrie-50-anniversary.html
In “Long Live Queer Nightlife,” the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/long-live-queer-nightlife-amin-ghaziani.html
Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/books/review/new-romance-books.html
In Lisa Ko’s adventurous novel “Memory Piece,” youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/books/review/memory-piece-lisa-ko.html
In “God’s Ghostwriters,” the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/books/review/candida-moss-gods-ghostwriters.html
In “Nuclear War” and “Countdown,” Annie Jacobsen and Sarah Scoles talk to the people whose job it is to prepare for atomic conflict.
“I love ‘I heard a Fly buzz — when I died,’” said the actress, currently performing Off Broadway in “The Seven Year Disappear.” “That one gets me every time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/theater/cynthia-nixon-seven-year-disappear.html
A Chinatown hotel; an adventuress on the make.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/books/read-like-wind-recommendations.html
In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/books/review/kristine-s-ervin-rabbit-heart.html
The duo will lead the cast of “Left on Tenth,” a stage adaptation of Delia Ephron’s best-selling memoir.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/theater/margulies-gallagher-ephron-broadway.html
The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/books/lorrie-moore-national-book-critics-circle-awards.html
A posthumous release from the famed photographer Ruth Orkin casts a female gaze on subjects both ordinary and iconic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/ruth-orkin-women-photo-book.html
A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/tom-hanks-reviews-a-tale-told-by-a-typewriter.html
In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/abrahm-lustgarten-on-the-move.html
New books from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard and Scott Guild.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/johansson-malye-howard-guild.html
Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.
The writer and public intellectual reads “Doppelganger,” a searching exploration of uncanny doubles both personal and political.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/naomi-klein-doppelganger.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/books/review/8-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/harlem-renaissance-dinner-1924-anniversary.html
In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/books/review/listen-for-the-lie-amy-tintera.html
In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
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Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/review/martin-amis.html
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/fires-in-the-dark-kay-redfield-jamison.html
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/james-campbell-nb-by-jc.html
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/books/review/machado-de-assis-dom-casmurro.html
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/books/review/dorothy-sayers-whose-body-at-100.html
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/books/review-the-late-americans-brandon-taylor.html
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/best-martin-amis-books.html