Its author became a pop culture celebrity, and sometimes punchline, but “The Hite Report” helped make way for frank discussions about pleasure.
In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.
Her 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.
Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.
In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.
A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.
In her latest book, “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters considers the seemingly neutral background of daily life.
Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.
Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.
In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.
In “The Havana Syndrome,” Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados make the case that a mysterious Russian weapon has been used to target American intelligence agents.
In “The Case of the Autographed Corpse,” Jack El-Hai reveals how the relationship between a celebrity author and a captive healer reopened a closed case.
In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.
Silverfish, book lice and mold are a thing, especially in secondhand books. Here’s how to deal with them.
As Anthony Tommasini demonstrates in his new biography, the inspiring singer preferred to incite change through excellence, not banner-waving.
Rachel Cusk’s newest novel, “Life of M,” arrived in a pile of old-fashioned gossip. Alexandra Jacobs, a New York Times book critic, reviews the author’s latest novel.
He was the author of more than a dozen books. “He knew every writer in New York,” Robert A. Caro said.
Fourteen authors in the New Directions stable have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including this year and last. How does this small press pack such a punch?
Eli McCann had a surprise hit with his debut novel, “Stitched.” He talks about how he came to write the book and what its success has meant.
The two-time Newbery medalist Erin Entrada Kelly recommends 10 books whose mingling of fear and suspense has tantalized her.
With a Netflix adaptation now streaming, Rachel Kushner, Héctor Tobar, Zoe Kazan and others share why Steinbeck’s operatic family saga has stayed with them.
Tom McCarthy’s new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.
Frank Huyler’s new novel is a devastating commentary on the place of an ordinary man in the world of the ultrarich.
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
