Two reports from advocacy groups show that book banning continues at higher rates than before the pandemic. Newly implemented ...

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

Batuman’s endless appreciation and ardor for her subjects (literature, yes, along with transcultural irony and ungenerous ...

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi ...

The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, ...

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias ...

Assouline has made its name publishing tomes that sell for $1,000 or more. But that’s just the beginning of this family-run ...

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and ...

Pleasantly surprised on the subway, an invisible helper appears and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes ...