Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early ...

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PEARLY EVERLASTING (Harper, 352 pp., $28.99) is named for its beguiling tomboy narrator, who in turn is named for a plant ...

Morgan comes on like the family member you hope to be seated next to at dinner: the one for whom life is fundamentally a ...

You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel ...

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Determined to train as a physician at the highest level, in 1868 Putnam — a daughter of the prominent New York publisher ...

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APARTMENT WOMEN, by Gu Byeong-mo. Translated by Chi-Young Kim.

In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.