Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.

On the heels of a recent resurgence of independent bookstores opening around town, the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books ...

Frank thinks so: in his view, the twentieth-century novel is a distinct literary genre, and his book is an ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious effort to map it.

How Iran’s revolution shook the world, Matisse’s quest for light, a new generation of tennis champions and more.

Philip King grew up during the 1940s and 1950s in small town Ohio. He was a good young baseball player and a fan of the ...

A review card of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, written by a Los Angeles Public Library staff member around the time of the book's publication.

Daniel Kehlmann's 'The Director,' inspired by G.W. Pabst, grapples with the dangers of artistic complicity, in his case with Nazis during World War II.

The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules. The two young champions, who met as teen-agers ...

Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck.

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