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Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore
What is it about a bookstore? You walk in planning to browse for a few minutes, and somehow an hour later you’re still wandering the stacks with an a…
2 months, 1 week ago
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next?
The journalist A…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
What are the best thrillers published since 2000?
That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writer…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
Early in Douglas Stuart’s new novel, “John of John,” the Booker Prize-winning author describes a peculiar irony: “What skinned him was that the close…
3 months ago
Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far)
The editors at The New York Times Book Review spend almost the entire year discussing, debating and sometimes arguing about the year’s best books. We…
3 months, 1 week ago
Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
Today we want to bring back an episode from our archives.
It’s about a book that has real beach read vibes. There’s a lot of water. It’s a relations…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’
If you can’t tell your Eurylochus from your Telemachus, fear not: Your primer on “The Odyssey” is here, just in time for Christopher Nolan’s new film…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July
The United States is celebrating its 250th birthday this summer, giving Americans a chance to reflect on the nation’s past and imagine its future.
Wh…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Yesteryear,' by Caro Claire Burke
“Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, tells the story of Natalie Heller Mills: an ultrasuccessful tradwife influencer who posts about her li…
4 months ago
Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began
In April 1989, a newspaper clipping about an art exhibit landed in the mailbox of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, the founder of a conservative evangelical …
4 months, 1 week ago