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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

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

In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp ...

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 ...