Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
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His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations ...
In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own ...
By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...