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

Oline Cogdill’s favorite mystery novels of 2024, a year marked by rich plots, diverse and fully realized characters and vivid ...

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

Let the Sun In’ A leading figure in mid-century American design, Alexander Girard is perhaps best known for the vivid colour ...

The best writing about the domestic ... with a special interest in children’s books Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election ...

Canadian architect Siamak Hariri led the design of the most recent of the Bahá’í Houses of Worship, perched on the foothills ...

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

If you're spending the holidays alone or with friends and family, these are the 10 great movies to watch on Thanksgiving this ...

Her own rags-to-riches story mirrored those of many of her resilient heroines, and her dozens of novels helped her amass a ...

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

"Giant Love" author Julie Gilbert is the great-niece and biographer of Edna Ferber ... a tiny but indomitable dynamo who ...