In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of life.” Every Friday, be the first to see reviews, news and features in The New York Times Book Review.

During the past 50 years, the work of the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto has found its way to readers like water ...

In a new memoir, Hanif Kureishi reflects on a life transformed since he lost the use of his arms and legs.

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.

In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our ...