In honor of the 25th anniversary of New York Review Books Classics, we've selected 25 gems that the publisher has unearthed ...

Charles Baxter’s novel charges along so boisterously that it’s easy to forget the author is batting around some of the weightiest concerns of human experience. John le Carré’s son Nick ...

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Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Martin Bernal was born in London in 1937. He studied at Kings College in Cambridge, and in 1959 attended Peking University. After taking his degree he did graduate work at Cambridge, the University ...

This is the first book in a series featuring Easy Rawlins, an African-American private detective working in mid-century Los Angeles. Rawlins and his fearsome sidekick, Mouse, navigate America’s ...

With the professional days of the Frankfurt Book Fair wrapping up, fair director Juergen Boos shared that the annual event saw a rise in professional visitors this year, with preliminary numbers ...

The five-year anniversary of Covid-19 is just months away, but at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the pandemic felt like a thing of the past. While the show floor isn’t as bustling on the ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ruins are a theme in this week’s recommended books, from the collapse of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie empire to the lives ...

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...

The opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair aimed to set the tone for this year's event, which runs from October 16 through 20. Karin Schmidt-Frederichs, chairwoman of the German ...

Horror novels are a different proposition. To truly scare a reader, a book must weave a more delicate web of persuasion and misdirection, depending on the power of your imagination to fill in the ...