Books
Looking for book recommendations? What to read, what not to read, and the latest news in the world of books.
What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.
BookTok is the only profitable publishing trend of the year. How much of the profit goes to BookTokers?
Two new books, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care, offer a framework for thinking about the world beyond capitalism.
Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, just turned 40. It’s an acid bomb of a romance.
Michael Schulman on why the Oscars are always behind the times, and his new book, Oscar Wars.
In her new book Black Archives, Renata Cherlise makes the case for celebrating everyday Black joy.
Almost 250 employees spent 66 days on strike for higher wages and increased diversity.
Thomas Jefferson’s stage fright! Woodrow Wilson’s academic research on presidential rhetoric! Reagan’s special guests!
M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie is based on the book A Cabin at the End of the World, and largely follows it — until it doesn’t.
In his debut novel, Dan Kois vividly conjures the lost New York of 1991.
The biggest revelations from Chris Whipple’s new look at the Biden administration.
The press is the villain but there are no heroes in Prince Harry’s new memoir.
The 8-episode first season forms an uneven, haunting adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic.
From kid art criminals to feminist histories, these are our favorite books from the past year.
The TV adaptation, now on Hulu and FX, is too literary for its own good.
#Inspo from Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl’s iconic book on perseverance in Jewish labor camps, is everywhere.
A look at this year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
Penguin Random House is officially not going to become Penguin Random Simon & Schuster.
Researchers are using drones, AI, and digital recorders to create a “zoological version of Google Translate.”
The Passenger is out now, and Stella Maris is out in December. They’re McCarthy’s first new books since 2006.
Robinson gives readers grounded sci-fi with a soaring spirit.
The author of Little Fires Everywhere’s new book, Our Missing Hearts, brings Cold War dystopia into the present.
Marilyn Monroe was an artist. Her magnum opus was her own image.
Don’t Worry Darling and Barbarian want us to remember gender is scary.
This graphic memoir delves into some of the world’s most plentiful — and destructive — oil mines.
“California Burning” author Katherine Blunt on the lessons learned in California.
Tamsyn Muir’s latest sequel to Gideon the Ninth brings a vital new urgency to the Locked Tomb series.
It can help us push back against tyranny. Philosopher Hannah Arendt’s legendary cocktail parties were proof.
And why even the phrase “reproductive health” might be kind of misleading.
The former Nickelodeon star burns her bridges in her new memoir.
Did Americans forget the risks of free speech?
In The Year of Miracles, Ella Risbridger cooks through the end of the world.
Why there’s more noise, and more kinds of it — and why it might be ruining our focus.
Even when your brain feels like mush.
The new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, starring Dakota Johnson, swings wildly from dour to dull.
The new Election sequel shows how far we’ve come in handling ambitious women — and how far we have to go.
The queer canon should point us toward the future. We made a list of new, vibrant queer stories helping us get there.
Still sad, no longer young, kind of literary.
A new novel paints a portrait of a world ruled by almighty algorithm.
Our pick for November 2021 is Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.