A Book Review art director ... If the top half of this cover is all party, the bottom half is all infrastructure. For a celebratory sociopolitical history of one of New York’s most storied ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

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

Parker was 35 when she wrote that. Old age seemed to come on earlier back in the day. I’m thinking especially of poor Edward ...

Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now ...

In her lively debut novel, “How to Sleep at Night,” Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay ...

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment ... He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his ...

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York ...

By Eva Wolchover His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades ... He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract ...

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