Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

The collection of photographs traces the evolution of Miami Beach throughout the 20th Century and chronicles the Jewish ...

Show at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice will include artefacts from the George Loudon collection amongst other ...

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

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

Visionaries of the viewfinder.

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

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

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

If there is another American in the 20th ... century contributed to high policy as much as he did for as long as he did in both Democratic and Republican administrations.” Indeed, Nitze’s very life ...

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