Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” By Dwight GarnerJennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

Andy Kesson - University of Roehampton, London ‘This is a well-conceived, skilfully argued, and constantly astonishing book. Its object is to insist on the importance of a study of lost plays so as ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. Still, the spirit of William Shakespeare ...

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.

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference argues, via the work of English playwright William Shakespeare, the importance of Catholicism as a necessary ...

The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to ...

While it seems impossible that VHS, with its tracking adjustments and “be kind, rewind” requirements, might become a popular format again, stranger things have happened—see: the vinyl ...

Shakespeare most likely attended until about age 15. A horn book in the Folger collection, similar to one that Shakespeare might have learned to read from A few years after he left school, in late ...

While Shakespeare-inspired works are always coming out, plenty of books – novels, romances, crime, history and nonfiction – are hitting shelves now. (How plentiful? I literally got pitched a ...

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 is the star of a book written by a mother ...

December 12, 2024 • These true stories range from a "meow-moir" of a Siberian cat to an exploration of what U.S. presidents do after the White House. Check out these nonfiction reads recommended ...