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

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

The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as ...

When a guidebook he wrote for American soldiers overseas sold out, he launched what became one of the travel industry’s ...

But it is among the best movies of the 21st century ... Nearly a quarter century ago, Christian Bale played Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, and it may still be the actor’s darkest character ...

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — ...

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Many of the best ... more than a century on in a way that leaves readers with a moving meditation on familial inheritances and the power of shared stories. In this matryoshka of a novel, we ...