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Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

Katy ISD has banned 14 new books since the start of the school year in August. Several of the titles have been in circulation ...

Newsweek staff has gathered an eclectic list of classics and new favorite reads that will appeal, no matter how choosy the ...

Why It Connected: La Mentira was full of star power. It began with the theme song, which in Fernández’s voice, topped the ...

Let the Sun In’ A leading figure in mid-century American design, Alexander Girard is perhaps best known for the vivid colour ...

How a 25% tariff or tax might affect the American comic book industry and the stores that sell the comics. A 25% tariff on ...

From the small-screen adaptation of a classic novel to the return of the phenomenon that is Squid Game, these are the shows ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith ...

On paper, it sounds like an intriguing idea for a drama, but perhaps not the ideal set-up for a captivating mystery thriller.