The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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December 10, 2024 • This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's ...

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Ellie says she made the family dog Rolo into a character too, because she knew he and Theo would have been good friends The teddy bear of a stillborn baby ... to me," Ellie said. "But the book ...

Taken together, these books offer a reminder: even outsiders are never truly alone. Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New ...

The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really ... and advice columnists (like me) regularly suggesting that people dealing with tough problems find a counsellor - as ...

With winter in full swing, parents-to-be across the nation are hunting for that perfect baby name. For those enchanted by the Yuletide glow and crisp wintry charm, they might want to peek at a ...

Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century. His theories solved centuries-old problems in physics and rocked even non-physicists' view of the world.