It’s a big year for the United States of America. This year’s July 4th celebration will mark 250 years since the signing of ...

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Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.

The year is 1927, the city Detroit, and Marjorie Lennox, youngest daughter of a dirty-dealing automobile family, has been invited to an artist residency, where she'll supposedly have time, space and ...

Lena Connolly is defending Fordham University against accusations that it possesses stolen Italian artifacts. Lena's problem?

And yet, though sticks and stones and words are weapons, as in the new memoir, “Something We Said” by Elizabeth Stordeur ...

In his 1989 farewell address to the nation, President Reagan said, “If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are.” ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

The Vermont author of ‘The Warm Hands of Ghosts’ melds history, fantasy and romance into a vibrant tapestry in her novel set ...

Just when Margaret Atwood’s fictional worlds are most recognizably ordinary, something wild and intransigent is likely to pop up. The same is true of her life’s storyline.