2024-10-14 14:20:10
A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.
2024-10-14 14:20:10
The 2008 coal ash spill was among the biggest industrial disasters in U.S. history. In a new book, Jared Sullivan recounts the accident, the lawsuits and the lasting damage.
2024-10-14 14:20:10
In “Beyond the Big Lie,” Bill Adair worries that the world of spin and fabrication in America has gotten out of hand.
2024-10-13 09:10:08
Two new books explore the messy business of uncovering Russian interference in American elections.
2024-10-13 09:10:08
In “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Susan Minot once again explores female desire, staging a romantic collision between a divorced mother and a much younger musician.
The new story collection by Mark Haddon takes inspiration from Greek myths, H.G. Wells and Snoopy.
Daniel M. Lavery’s debut novel collects vignettes from inside the Biedermeier, a second-rate, rapidly waning establishment in midcentury New York City.
The protagonist of Eva Baltasar’s novel “Mammoth” contains multitudes, and that’s the way she likes it.
2024-10-13 00:50:09
A reporter counted every best seller about U.S. presidents published since The Times started tracking book sales in 1931. The process took some patience.
2024-10-13 00:50:09
She became a literary star in Senegal with novels that addressed women’s issues as the country, newly free from French colonial rule, was discovering its identity.
2024-10-11 20:54:09
The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award.
2024-10-11 20:54:09
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.
In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to life.
2024-10-11 20:54:09
Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.
2024-10-11 20:54:09
The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president.