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

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

The Last Pomegranate of the World, a novel by popular Kurdish novelist Bakhtyar Ali, has been selected among top 100 books of ...

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

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

Nov. 30, 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of L.M. Montgomery's birth. The Next Chapter columnist Alicia Cox Thomson explores ...

Because the course covers the development of different types of detectives, we start with what’s widely considered one of the first police detective novels in English, “The Moonstone” by ...

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

Under President Rutherford B. Hayes, the U.S. government approved and developed off-reservation Indian boarding schools. The ...

The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel is a tribute to a Colombian history woven from both magic and violence ...