The comedy writer, known for shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place,” has a surprising new project: a book about moral philosophy that explores how to be a good person.
Andrew Lipstein’s entertaining debut novel mines comedy from an aspiring author’s ethically questionable path to publication.
John Darnielle’s new novel is about a true-crime writer who moves into a house where notorious murders had occurred decades earlier.
Daphne Merkin examines her complicated feelings about Joan Didion’s writing, iconic status and legacy.
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel, “How High We Go in the Dark,” is an expansive mosaic set in the wake of a devastating virus.
Gottlieb talks about his own new biography and the work of Sinclair Lewis, and Carl Bernstein discusses “Chasing History.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“I was really disappointed when I read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’” says the author of “The Making of Incarnation” and other novels. “But then I read his ‘Mother Night,’ and thought it was brilliant.”
This poem (in translation) by Wang Yin, a Chinese poet based in Shanghai, aptly captures the slipperiness of time, memory and dreams.
What do Jacqueline Woodson and Elizabeth George have in common? They’re both veteran authors whose books fly off the shelves.
Night visions, two years in.
In “The Hard Sell,” the journalist Evan Hughes tells the story of the rise and fall of Insys Therapeutics — and the larger pharmaceutical industry.
“The Transcendentalists and Their World,” by Robert A. Gross, focuses on Concord, Mass.
The father of a German genre called Wimmelbuch, he delighted readers with detailed, cartoonish tableaus crammed with jokes and anecdotes.
In the historian Jing Tsu’s “Kingdom of Characters,” the evolution of Chinese writing tells the story of the country’s past, present — and future.
A new book that names a Jewish notary as a suspect made headlines. Now that World War II and Holocaust experts have had time to review its claims, many doubt the methods and conclusion.
David Sanchez’ debut novel, “All Day Is a Long Time,” paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of life with addiction.
Rosemary Salomone’s “The Rise of English” looks at the economic, social and cultural impact of English around the world.
Two books, “How Civil Wars Start,” by Barbara F. Walter, and “The Next Civil War,” by Stephen Marche, examine if the United States is facing upheaval.
“Campaign of the Century,” a new book by Irwin F. Gellman, revives an old contention that Richard Nixon actually won the presidency in 1960.
The 2007 play based on Khaled Hosseini’s novel has been widely produced, including on the West End in London. It will come to Broadway in July.
Kendra James was a legacy student at Taft, but wasn’t made to feel like a member of a proud tradition while she was there.
“Free,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir about growing up in Albania amid the fall of communism.
“Red Milk,” a novel by Sjón, examines a young man’s path to neo-Nazism.
In “The Book of All Books,” the great Italian polymath offers his interpretation of biblical stories.
