These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...

Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy ...

The collection of photographs traces the evolution of Miami Beach throughout the 20th Century and chronicles the Jewish ...

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

Hoare’s book covers Serbia from the wars of liberation against Ottoman rule to the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. It is ...

A History of a Dangerous Emotion,” the historian Agnes Arnold-Forster echoes Boym, reporting that 19th-century physicians saw nostalgia as a product of the bustle that accompanied the advent of ...

Edwin Frank’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, ...

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

The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The movement grew, above all, out of horror at the ...

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

If there is another American in the 20th ... century contributed to high policy as much as he did for as long as he did in both Democratic and Republican administrations.” Indeed, Nitze’s very life ...