There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

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

This month, pile your nightstand with a biography of one of TV's greatest stars ... That began to change by the end of the 19th century with the influx of nouveau riche arrivistes, who ushered ...

From novels by David Nicholls and Sally Rooney to a memoir by Cher, your local bookshop has gifts to please everyone in your ...

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

A Collection of Stories and Recipes by The Gourmand (David Lane and Marina Tweed) (Taschen) The hedonist’s stocking filler: the lemon in art and design from Egyptian wall paintings to Philippe ...

If, rather than process recent events, you’d prefer to immerse yourself in a romance novel, you’re hardly alone. Thankfully, ...

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

Manhwa offers a fresh perspective on classic genres and deep dives into Korean culture. Historical manhwas cover diverse eras ...

Some 18th and 19th-century novels presaged the dystopian ... The work inspired the great dystopian novels of the 20th century, such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and George Orwell's ...