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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 ...

Stewart’s latest book is self-referential, with an amusing twist. She serves up a recipe for Martha-tinis while encouraging ...

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

The author of ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ and ‘The Fire Next Time’ got early experience in the pulpit. The cadences of the ...

With new releases from household names like Percival Everett, Kristin Hannah, Leigh Bardugo, and Malcolm Gladwell, the Amazon ...

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

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. When we initially reached out to ...

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year ... But ultimately, the sprawling list ...