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The Book Review

The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Re

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Elijah Wald’s 2015 book, “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the S

When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pul

The novel “Our Evenings,” by Alan Hollinghurst, follows a gay English Burmese actor from childhood i

In Alafair Burke’s new thriller, “The Note,” three friends are vacationing together in the Hamptons

Decades ago, after he lost in home in a California wildfire, the travel writer and essayist Pico Iye

And we're back! Happy new year, readers. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib tal

The Book Review podcast is off for the holidays, but please enjoy this episode of the The New York T

Clare Keegan's slim 2021 novella about one Irishman's crisis of conscience during the Christmas seas

Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs — staff critics for The New York Times Book Revi

Following our Top 10 Books of 2024 episode, we are re-running our book club discussion about one of

Don't let anyone tell you differently — end of year list time is a wonderful time, indeed. And, as w

The broad outlines of "James" will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of

It begins with one of the most iconic lines in literature: “Many years later, as he faced the firing

As part of The New York Times Book Review's project on the 100 Best Books published since the year 2

The works of John le Carré, who died in 2020, are among the most beloved thrillers of all time. For

Sally Rooney is a writer people talk about. Since her first novel, “Conversations With Friends,” was

Halloween is just around the corner, so we turned to two great horror authors — Joe Hill and Stephen

Salman Rushdie's "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," has been nominated in the nonfictio

The actor-director-producer Stanley Tucci is also, famously, an avid eater, who has explored his ent

In 2021, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz had a hit with “The Plot,” a book that was partly a myster