16 Books To Read This Month

Amid sweeping attacks on the freedom to read, these novels and nonfiction deal with sex and sensuality, racism and artmaking, dreams under fascism, and more essential questions of what it means to be a human in this world.

Six Books That Will Make You Want to Touch Grass

As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, adults would say, reminding me that sunshine can be fleeting. The warm days of

10 noteworthy books for May

May’s stellar new books include memoirs from a spy and a cult escapee, along with a biography of a Wild West outlaw. Fiction offerings range from historical to fantastical with a new Michael Connelly protagonist making a debut.

The Best New Books to Read in May

T he best new books to read in May include historian and best-selling author Ron Chernow ’s biography of Mark Twain, United We Dream co-founder Cristina Jiménez ’s debut memoir, and poet and novelist Ocean Vuong ’s follow-up to his

The Most Beautiful Books of 2024

Aesthetically refined, dazzling, mysterious, humorous and moving, stimulating the imagination, for adults and children – we present last year’s most captivating books in terms of words and images.

Five Best: Books on World War II Generals

Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of “The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines.”