Heather McGowan’s novel “Friends of the Museum” takes place over a single, chaotic day in the lead-up to a Met-inspired ...

The North Carolina Values Coalition’s “Mama Bear Workshops” show that the parental rights movement believes its work isn't ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford and Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman ...

Pember had an opportunity review the paperwork related to her ... “Primarily this book is about fulfilling my promise to my mother,” she says, but writing about these topics was “irresistible.” “I ...

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

An Observer’s Notebook is the third in the series after The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal and The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself.

Reading is the best way to start with creative writing, said Joseph Plicka, an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts & ...

That reticence throughout “Flesh” demonstrates how much Istvan remains frozen in time as a shy Hungarian teenager forced to grow up. Szalay's novel follows Istvan's life in various moments ...

Istvan, the protagonist in David Szalay’s new novel “Flesh,” is a character who reveals little in his conversations with others. His clipped responses to questions are akin to the ...