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 ...

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

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

A new photography book of Consuelo Kanaga's work celebrates her pioneering voice in 20th-century American photography ...

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

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what ...

The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...

"This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.

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

Heaven knows, the sport of boxing has given us some truly amazing people, some surreal characters over the years. From ...