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

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

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

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

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

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present ...

Anthony tossed himself a softball with his setup of the story, telling the other three that one of the most famous 20th century artists had gotten access to the locker room to meet the players and ...

Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...

What he was really asking was what “being a Jew” meant to him: an emancipated, assimilated European, specifically English, living in the second half of the 20th century, without any religious faith ...

In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain. David Abulafia goes in search of ...

It was required reading when I was in high school (okay, maybe that does seem a bit weird in retrospect) and is ranked fourth on Modern Library’s list of the 100 best 20th-century novels.