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Back to SearchHow Nintendo Became the World's Most Fun Video Game Company
Keza MacDonald, the video games editor at The Guardian and author of the new book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis
Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” opens with a jolt: “The girls, the infernal heat, a fresh-dead body. Marching up the r…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Chuck Klosterman Has So Much to Say About Football
The journalist, novelist and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman is best known for writing about rock music and pop culture in astute essay collections …
7 months ago
The Books We're Excited About in Early 2026
A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana…
7 months, 1 week ago
'The Correspondent' Author Virginia Evans On Her Breakout Year
Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champions of 202…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catas…
8 months ago
What Did 2025 Mean for Books?
From political tell-alls to the continued triumph of romantasy novels, it’s been an eventful year in the publishing world. On this week’s episode, ho…
8 months, 1 week ago
Our Book Critics on Their 2025 in Reading
Here we are in mid-December, which means that along with all of the other year-end lists we produce and avidly consume at this time each year, The Ne…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The 10 Best Books of 2025
All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Hamnet'
History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son na…
9 months ago