The world of contemporary literature is always changing and it’s hard to know what books are worth the hype and what the buzz ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

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big names and comedy you can’t miss – start planning your reading list for the new year with the biggest, most anticipated books of 2024. We have high-octane historical adventures, modern-day ...

Indeed. Edwin Frank, the editorial director of New York Review Books, is the author of “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.” (Photo Credit Jonathan Becker / Cover ...

Here is how Haruki Murakami, in his new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls ... Murakami has been a perennial Nobel ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might ...

By Deborah Crossland “I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times ... expert who was passing off modern mixtures as vintage spirits among enthusiasts, Rail’s book delivers a lively stand-alone ...

keep reading to check out our pick of the best modern dystopian fiction to read now. The Memory Of Animals, the new book from the Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground, is a ...

Seuss’s sixth collection is a mock primer for understanding poetry, with its poems titled after devices and forms such as simile, allegory, and ballad—conventions which, in the book ...

We science fiction fans are going to have our work cut out for us to make it through all the riches on offer this month.