What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature? Here we review the latest titles. There are plenty of good books to slip into your beach bag as the 2025 reading calendar comes to a close ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff We’ve broken down our annual list by theme. By The ...

Updike’s letters are sometimes a startling reminder of just how close his life was to his stories of domestic discontent and of how elastic basic decency could be. Leah Libresco Sargeant skewers the ...

The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho conjures fateful interconnections among vivid characters living in the grip of military dictatorship. The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian ...